Bengalus Biseswar 2006
- Dataset
- Additions to the deep-sea echiuran (Echiura) fauna of the North-East Atlantic
- Rank
- GENUS
- Published in
- Biseswar, Ramlall (2006): Additions to the deep-sea echiuran (Echiura) fauna of the North-East Atlantic. Zoosystema 28 (4): 853-864, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689879
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Annelida
- class
- Polychaeta
- order
- Echiuroidea
- family
- Bonelliidae
- genus
- Bengalus
diagnosis
DIAGNOSIS. — Bonelliids with single, elongated, tubular gonoduct on right side of nerve cord with stalked gonostome located on one side near distal end of gonoduct; no ventral setae; anal vesicles tubular opening into cloacal bulb.
etymology
ETYMOLOGY. — The genus is named after the BENGAL cruises that were undertaken in the Porcupine Abyssal Plain in the North-East Atlantic.
type_taxon
TYPE SPECIES. — Bengalus longiductus n. sp.
Name
- Homonyms
- Bengalus Biseswar 2006
- Bengalus