Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873

Vacelet, Jean, Kelly, Michelle & Schlacher-Hoenlinger, Monika, 2009, Two new species of Chondrocladia (Demospongiae: Cladorhizidae) with a new spicule type from the deep south Pacific, and a discussion of the genus Meliiderma, Zootaxa 2073, pp. 57-68 : 59

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.5281/zenodo.187147
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.5612548
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scientific name	Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873
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Genus Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873 View in CoL

Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873: 188 View in CoL ; Crinorhiza Schmidt, 1880: 83 ; Meliiderma Ridley & Dendy, 1887: 102 ; Not Neocladia Koltun, 1970: 193 View in CoL (amended from Hajdu & Vacelet 2002).

Diagnosis. Cladorhizidae with a slender stalk and spherical body with filamentous processes that may be inflated and turgid in life. The base of attachment may be root-like or solid. Axial skeleton composed of monactinal megascleres (mycalostyles), from which radiating extra-axial tracts diverge to lateral processes. Microscleres include unguiferous anchorate isochelae (modified from Hajdu & Vacelet 2002).