Genus Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964

Type species. Abyssocladia bruuni Lévi, 1964 (by monotypy).

Diagnosis. Cladorhizidae most often pedunculate, carrying a disciform or flabelliform body with a radial architec-

ture, in other cases pinnate or branching. Microscleres are a combination of abyssochelae, cleistochelae, arcuate chelae and/or sigmancistras, but not placochelae (from Hestetun et al. 2016).