HORMOSINELLA Shchedrina, 1969

 

 

Type species: Reophax distans Brady, 1881 (*339), p. 50; OD.

Hormosinella Shchedrina, 1969 (*2892), p. 170. Cadminus Saidova, 1970 (*2694), p. 148: obj.; OD.

Test free, large, uniserial, and rectilinear to slightly arcuate; ovate to fusiform cham­bers separated by very elongate, delicate, and stolonlike necks, hence commonly broken, although a three-chambered test may attain a length of 5 mm; wall agglutinated, very thin, of a single layer of well-cemented grains; aperture terminal on the elongate neck, rounded. U. Eocene; USSR. Holocene; N. Pacific at 4,100 m to 5,550 m; S. Pacific at 2,140 m to 4,320 m; N. Atlantic at 710 m to 3,500 m; S. Atlantic at 1,800 m; Antarctic from 3,140 m to 5,200 m.