390 



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Distribution: Eastern part of the tropical and South Atlantic and north- 

 ern tropical regions of the Pacific Ocean. It lives in the upper 100 m layer. 

 Absent in our collections. 



6. Lestrigonus bengalensis Giles, 1887 (Fig. 167) 



Giles, 1887: 224; bovallius, 1889: 199 (hyperia); Nayar, 1959: 

 46 (Hyperia); Bowman, 1973; 50.— dysschistus Stebbing, 1888: 1381 

 (Hyperia); bovallius, 1889:204 (Hyperia); Spandl, 1924: 265 (Hyperia). 

 —thoracica Bo\&nms, 1889: 233 (Hyperia); Vosseler, 1901: 73 

 (Hyperia); Stephensen, 1924: 91 (Hyperia). — gilesi Bovallius, 1889: 

 236 (Hyperia). —atlantica Vosseler, 1901: 67 (Hyperia); Yang, 1960: 

 28 (Hyperia).— latissima (non Bovallius, 1889); bamard, 1930: 410 

 (Hyperia). 



Length of males 2.8-3.4 mm, of females 2-2.5 mm. 



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Fig. 167. Lestrigonus bengalensis Giles (after Bowman, 1973). 



