Chondrocladia Thomson 1873
- Dataset
- Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition
- Rank
- GENUS
Classification
- kingdom
- Animalia
- phylum
- Porifera
- class
- Demospongiae
- order
- Poecilosclerida
- family
- Cladorhizidae
- genus
- Chondrocladia
diagnosis
Diagnosis: Chondrocladia without a layer of special spicules (subtrochirhabds or trochirhabds), lacking special rostriform (snoutlike) subtylostyles in filaments or terminal balls, and without planar vanes formed of evenly spaced upright branches (from Lee et al. 2012).
discussion
Remarks. The genus Chondrocladia has been recently summarised (Lopes et al. 2011), with these data updated to include additional information, and more recently described species, in Table 10. There are currently 31 species of Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia), 6 species of Ch. (Meliiderma) Ridley & Dendy, 1887 and 1 species of Ch. (Symmetrocladia) Lee, Reiswig, Austin & Lundsten, 2012 (Van Soest et al. 2019).
type_taxon
Type species: Chondrocladia virgata Thomson, 1873 (by monotypy).