“…The species is widespread in the Atlantic and has been recorded at a number of localities in the northern North Atlantic, off the west coast of Africa in the South Atlantic, and in the Mediterranean Sea. L. helicoides is bathypelagic, with most of the Atlantic records being at depths of 500 to 1000m (Tesch, 1946;van der Spoel, 1967;Bé and Gilmer, 1977). Despitethe wide range of L. helicoides in the Atlantic Ocean, it has been found only rarely in the Pacific Ocean and never in the Indian Ocean.…”