TYPE SPECIES. — Bengalus longiductus n. sp.
ETYMOLOGY. — The genus is named after the BENGAL cruises that were undertaken in the Porcupine Abyssal Plain in the North-East Atlantic.
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.