Cadulus chuni Jaeckel, 1932

Cadulus chuni Jaeckel, 1932 View in CoL

Fig. 21D, E View Fig .

1932 Cadulus chuni Jaeckel, 1932: 309 View in CoL , text-fig. 6.

1995 Cadulus chuni Scarabino, 1995: 348–349 View in CoL , figs. 153, 160e.

Material.— One shell, SMF373076 About SMF ; one shell, SMF373075 About SMF . Northern Indian Ocean, Krishna-Godavari Basin , Bay of Bengal, offshore eastern India, 15°51.6335’ N, 81°50.2274’ E, 1046 m water depth, 16.78–16.88 mbsf level, core NGHP-01- 12A; Upper Pleistocene. For additional material see Table 1 GoogleMaps .

Description.—Small, smooth, swollen, solid gadilid-shaped shell. Apical aperture circular with thick rim. externally 0.6 mm, internally 0.4 mm; abapical aperture circular with thin rim, external diameter 0.9 mm. Lateral outline convexly swollen centre, slightly concave on apical and abapical shell faces. Maximum length 3 mm.

Remarks.—The species was described from off Somalia, eastern Africa, “Valdivia”, station 256, 01°49’ N, 45°30’ E, 1134 m. It is known as a recent species from the type locality and two locations in the Western central Pacific from Indonesia and the Philippines ( Scarabino 1995: 349, fig. 153); the bathymetric range is 205–1134 m.

Stratigraphic and geographic range.—Recent, off Somalia, Philippines and Indonesia. Upper Pleistocene, Krishna-Godavari Basin, off eastern India.