Subgenus Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) Thomson, 1873

Museums

Regional Maps

• Chondrocladia Thomson, C.W. 1873. The Depths of the Sea. London : [publisher unknown] 527 pp. pls 1-7. [188].

  Type species:

   Chondrocladia virgata Thomson, 1873 by monotypy.

Introduction

Vacelet et al (2009) referred three genera to this subgenus: Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873: 188; Crinorhiza Schmidt, 1880: 83; Meliiderma Ridley & Dendy, 1887: 102; but excluded Neocladia Koltun, 1970: 193 (amended from Hajdu & Vacelet 2002).

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania, Victoria

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

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

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

Diagnosis References

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]

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