Published December 31, 2006 | Version v1
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Bengalus Biseswar 2006, n. gen.

  • 1. School of Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Westville Campus, Private Bag x 54001, Durban 4000 (Republic of South Africa) moodleygk @ ukzn. ac. za

Description

Genus Bengalus n. gen.

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.

Notes

Published as part of Biseswar, Ramlall, 2006, Additions to the deep-sea echiuran (Echiura) fauna of the North-East Atlantic, pp. 853-864 in Zoosystema 28 (4) on page 858, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4689879

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Family
Bonelliidae
Genus
Bengalus
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Echiuroidea
Phylum
Annelida
Scientific name authorship
Biseswar
Taxonomic status
gen. nov.
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Bengalus Biseswar, 2006