Haplostylus bengalensis

28. Haplostylus bengalensis (Hansen, 1910) Gastrosaccus bengalensis Hansen, 1910 Gastrosaccus bengalis Hansen, 1910 Gastrosaccus philippinensis W.M. Tattersall, 1951 Indonesian records: Strait of Karimata and Java Sea (Ii 1964). Depth: Pelagic (Ii 1964). Global distribution: This species is distributed in India (Hansen 1910), Sri Lanka to New Guinea (Zimmer 1915), off Taiwan (Zimmer 1918), Andaman Sea (W.M. Tattersall 1922; Pillai 1973; Fukuoka & Murano 2002; Panampunnayil 2002), Philippines (W.M. Tattersall 1951), South China Sea (Liu & Wang 2000), Strait of Malacca (O.S. Tattersall 1965), Australia (Băcescu & Udrescu 1982; Hanamura 1998; Lowry & Stoddart 2003), Micronesia (Murano 1983), Japan (Fukuoka & Murano 1997), East China Sea (Wang & Liu 1997), Bahrain (Arabian Gulf) (Grabe et al. 2004) and Malaysia (Zalina & Othman 1994; Gan et al. 2010; Tan & Azman 2018).