Genus Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964

Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964: 78

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 (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).