Genus Lestrigonus Milne­Edwards, 1830

Remarks

Bowman (1973) recognised six species, one of which he described as new. One additional species has been described by Zeidler (1992b).

Very little is known about the biology of Lestrigonus . All records of associations with gelatinous plankton have been with medusae (Harbison et al. 1977, Laval 1980). Additional biological information is given for L. schizogeneios (Stebbing 1888) by Laval (1968a, 1972).

Distributional information for the species is provided by Bowman (1973), Bowman and McGuinness (1982) and Zeidler (1998).

Species: Lestrigonus bengalensis Giles, 1887; L. schizogeneios (Stebbing, 1888); L. crucipes (Bovallius, 1889); L. latissimus (Bovallius, 1889); L. macrophthalmus (Vosseler, 1901); L. shoemakeri Bowman, 1973; L. ducrayi Zeidler, 1992 .