Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964

Ekins, Merrick, Erpenbeck, Dirk & Hooper, John N. A., 2020, Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition, Zootaxa 4774 (1), pp. 1-159 : 7-8

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Genus Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964 View in CoL

Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964: 78 View in CoL

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 (from Hestetun et al. 2016a).

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

Remarks. Currently there are 31 accepted species assigned to Abyssocladia, ( Van Soest et al. 2019) , with only one, Abyssocladia desmophora ( Hooper & Lévi, 1989) , previously recorded from the Australian EEZ ( Table 1 View TABLE 1 ).