Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873

Ekins, Merrick & Hooper, John N. A., 2023, New carnivorous sponges from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia collected by ROV from the RV FALKOR, Zootaxa 5293 (3), pp. 435-471 : 437

Subgenus Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873

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).

Type species: Chondrocladia virgata Thomson, 1873 (by monotypy).

Remarks. The genus Chondrocladia was summarised in Table 6 of Lopes et al. (2011), and updated to include additional information and recently described species in Table 10 in Ekins et al. (2020a).