Genus Cladorhiza Sars, 1872

Cladorhiza Sars, 1872: 65

[ Trochoderma] Ridley & Dendy, 1886: 344 (preoccupied)

Axoniderma Ridley & Dendy, 1886: 493

Exaxinata de Laubenfels, 1936: 122

Raoa de Laubenfels, 1936: 123

Diagnosis. Cladorhizidae with only anchorate/ unguiferate anisochelae (from Lopes & Hajdu 2014).

Type species. Cladorhiza abyssicola Sars, 1872 (by monotypy).

Remarks. Cladorhiza currently contains 44 valid species and one fossil species ( C. haasti Hinde & Holmes, 1892) of uncertain identity (Van Soest et al. 2018) (Table 5). The genus Cladorhiza was summarised (Lopes and Hajdu, 2014), however due to the new species descriptions, the species within this genus have been resummarised here (Table 5).