Genus Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chondrocladia Thomson, W.C. 1873. The Depths of the Sea. London : Macmillan & Co. 527 pp. 84 figs 8 pls.

  Type species:

   Chondrocladia virgata Thomson, 1873 by monotypy.
• Crinorhiza Schmidt, O. 1880. Die Spongien des Meerbusen von Mexico (und des Caraibischen Meeres). Abtheilung II. Hexactinelliden. Heft II. In Reports on the dredging under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico, by the USCSS Blake. Gustav Fischer: Jena. pp. 33-90, pls V-X.
• Meliiderma Ridley, S.O. & Dendy, A. 1887. Report on the Monaxonida collected by H.M.S. Challenger during the years 1873–76. Report on the Scientific Results of the Voyage of H.M.S. Challenger 1873–1876, Zoology Zool. 20(59): 1-275 pls 1-51.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

Extra Distribution Information

West Indian region, amphi-N Atlantic Ocean, Indo-Malayan region, Japan, New Zealand, W and N Pacific Ocean, Antarctic and Subantarctic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Tasmania Province (10), Central Eastern Province (12), Central Eastern Transition (15), Kenn Transition (16), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Cladorhizidae with a slender stalk and spherical body with filamentous processes that may be
inflated and turgid in life. The base of attachment may be root-like or solid. Axial skeleton composed of
monactinal megascleres (mycalostyles), from which radiating extra-axial tracts diverge to lateral processes.
Microscleres include unguiferous anchorate isochelae

 

ID Keys

See Family Cladorhizidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

Hajdu, E. & Vacelet, J. 2002. Family Cladorhizidae Dendy, 1922. pp. 636-641 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds). Systema Porifera: A guide to the classification of sponges. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [638]

Vacelet, J., Kelly, M. & Schlacher-Hoenlinger, M. 2009. Two new species of Chondrocladia (Demospongiae: Cladorhizidae) with a new spicule type from the deep south Pacific, and a discussion of the genus Meliiderma. Zootaxa 2073: 57-68 [59]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
03-Mar-2022	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	04-Aug-2021	MODIFIED
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)