Bellactis Dube 1983

Grajales, Alejandro & Rodríguez, Estefanía, 2014, Morphological revision of the genus Aiptasia and the family Aiptasiidae (Cnidaria, Actiniaria, Metridioidea), Zootaxa 3826 (1), pp. 55-100 : 85

Genus Bellactis Dube 1983

Diagnosis (after Dube 1983). Aiptasiidae with broad, irregularly shaped base. Column elongate, smooth, thin, with 3–4 rows of cinclides in mid-column; column not distinctly divide into scapus and capitulum. Mesogleal marginal sphincter weak, alveolar. Oral disc lobed. Tentacles very numerous, rather short. More mesenteries proximally than distally. Mesenteries irregularly arranged; seven pairs of perfect mesenteries; first and second cycles fertile. Retractor muscles diffuse. Symbiotic with Symbiodinium spp. Asexual reproduction (?). Cnidom: spirocysts, basitrichs, and microbasic b -mastigophores and p -amastigophores.

Type species. Bellactis ilkalyseae Dube, 1983 by monotypy.

Included species. Bellactis ilkalyseae .