Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964

Ríos, Pilar & Cristobo, Javier, 2018, Abyssocladia vaceleti (Porifera, Cladorhizidae): a new deep-sea carnivorous sponge from Patagonia, Zootaxa 4466 (1), pp. 164-173 : 166

Genus Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964

Diagnosis. Cladorhizidae most often pedunculate, carrying a disciform or flabelliform body with a radial architecture, in other cases pinnate or branching. Microscleres are a combination of abyssochelae, cleistochelae, arcuate chelae and/or sigmancistras, but not placochelae ( Hestetun et al., 2015).