Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964

Vacelet, Jean, 2020, Carnivorous sponges (Porifera, Cladorhizidae) from the deep South Pacific (New Caledonia) with the description of three new species of the genus Abyssocladia and remarks on genus Cercicladia, Zootaxa 4767 (2), pp. 257-276 : 258-259

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).