Discovery reports (1956) Discovery reports discoveryreports27inst Year: 1956 SYSTEMATIC AND BIOLOGICAL ACCOUNT H5 colony and seven anterior nectophores. In my opinion, anterior nectophores of A. schmidti cannot be distinguished with certainty from those of A. trigona. Abyla schmidti (Text-figs. 73, 76, 77), though common in the Tropical Indian Ocean has not been noted hitherto in the North Atlantic except at Nant Protch Text-fig. 73. Abyla schmidti Sears. A, specimen from 'Discovery II' St. 1581 (base of right-hand side slightly restored), x6-4; B, C, D, posterior nectophores; B, 'Discove
Discovery reports (1956) Discovery reports discoveryreports27inst Year: 1956 SYSTEMATIC AND BIOLOGICAL ACCOUNT H5 colony and seven anterior nectophores. In my opinion, anterior nectophores of A. schmidti cannot be distinguished with certainty from those of A. trigona. Abyla schmidti (Text-figs. 73, 76, 77), though common in the Tropical Indian Ocean has not been noted hitherto in the North Atlantic except at Nant Protch Text-fig. 73. Abyla schmidti Sears. A, specimen from 'Discovery II' St. 1581 (base of right-hand side slightly restored), x6-4; B, C, D, posterior nectophores; B, 'Discovery II' St. 1587, x6-4; C, 'Mabahiss' St. 131, x6'4; D, 'Discovery II' St. 1585, x 6-4. In fig. D, the break in the apophysis indicates shortening of total length. ' Dana' Station 4762. This record perhaps needs checking. There is however an allied form in the western South Atlantic (Text-fig. 74). So far as I can tell at present, there appears to be more than one species of Abyla with anterior nectophores similar to those figured by Quoy & Gaimard (1827, pi. 2, B, figs. 1-8), Gegenbaur (1859), D XXVII r9
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