“…Nebalia was established by Leach (1814) with type Nebalia herbstii from the British Isles. More than 37 species of this genus have been reported thus far from Africa (Barnard 1914; Kensley 1976; Olesen 1999; Bochert and Zettler 2012), Red Sea (Wägele 1983), Adriatic Sea (Dahl 1985), Britain-Celtic Sea (Dahl 1985), Greenland (Dahl 1985), Norway (Dahl 1985), Pakistan (Kazmi and Tirmizi 1989), Antarctic Sea (Dahl 1990), Falkland Islands (Dahl 1990), New Zealand (Dahl 1990), South Atlantic Ocean (Dahl 1990), Mexico (Escobar-Briones and Villalobos-Hiriart 1995; Ortiz et al 2011), California (Martin et al 1996; Vetter 1996; Haney and Martin 2000, 2005), Mediterranean Sea (Ledoyer 1997; Moreira et al 2007, 2012; Koçak and Moreira 2015), New Caledonia (Ledoyer 2000), Northeast Atlantic (Haney et al 2001; Moreira et al 2003, 2009), Aegean Sea (Moreira et al 2007), Hong Kong (Lee and Bamber 2011), South Korea (Song et al 2012, 2013; Song and Min 2017), and Malaysia (Othman et al 2016). Although our understanding of the morphology and distribution of the genus Nebalia has progressed, further investigation into the ecology of the genus is necessary.…”