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Distribution: Widely distributed in the Atlantic Ocean (from 45° N 

 to 20° S) and in the Mediterranean Sea. In the Pacific Ocean it occurs 

 southeast of Japan, in tropical waters of the eastern part, and has also 

 been found in Californian waters, although due to the young age of the 

 specimens caught here, identification was difficult (Hurley, 1956). Not 

 found in the Indian and Southern oceans. 



219 8. Vibilia borealis Bate and Westwood, 1868 (Fig. 108) 



Bate and Westwood, 1868: 524; Bovallius, 1887b: 57; Norman, 

 1900: 137; Behning, 1912: 215; Stephensen, 1923: 11; Schellenberg, 

 1927: 615; Pirlot, 1930: 10.— kroyeri Bovallius, 1887b: 58; Stephensen, 

 1918: 38. 



Body length up to 13 mm, but more often 6-7 mm. 

 The body integument is thin. The head in females is equal to, in 

 males longer than the first two somites of the pereon; its frontal part in 

 males is highly projected in the form of a round bulge above the base of 

 antennae I in such a way that the dorsal line of the head is often concave; 

 in females the frons projects slightly and the cephalic line converges 

 gently toward antennae I; the height of the head is nfiore than its width. 

 The eyes of females are elongated-oval, reniform, or dorsally broadened, 



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Fig. 108. Vibilia borealis Bate and Westwood 

 (P„„ VI, Us— after Bovallius. 1887b; rest— Stephensen, 1928). 



