34° 



DISCOVERY REPORTS 



DISTRIBUTION OF THE EUPHAUSIACEA IN THE 

 BENGUELA CURRENT 



Thysanopoda microphthalma G. O. Sars 



Thysanopoda microphthalma G. O. Sars, 1885, p. 106; T. distinguenda Hansen, 1905a, p. 17. 



One adult female was taken from between 500 m. and 250 m. at station WS 977. Illig (1930) has 

 previously reported the species from the coast of South-West Africa. 



Nyctiphanes capensis Hansen 



Nyctiphanes capensis Hansen, 1911, p. 19; N. australis Stebbing, 1905, p. 113 {nee Sars, 1885); JV. australis 

 Stebbing, 1910, p. 299; N. africana Zimmer, 1912, p. 3. 



Table 1 . Occurrence of Nyctiphanes capensis 



The stations at which N. capensis was taken are shelf stations. Like other members of the genus, 

 the species is characteristically an inhabitant of shallow, coastal waters. Good collections have been 

 made previously in the Sturrock Dock in Capetown (Boden, 1954). 



N. africana Zimmer (19 12) is included here as a synonym. Zimmer's rather vague descriptions 

 and drawings of two specimens taken from the stomach contents of the Cape snoek, Thyrsites atun, 

 almost certainly refer to Nyctiphanes capensis and the fish were taken well within the distribution range 

 of N. capensis. 



