Cladorhizidae

Cladorhiza sp.

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poecilosclerida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Poecilosclerida

Familia: Cladorhizidae
Genera (15): Abyssocladia – Abyssosdiskos – Asbestopluma – Australocladia – Axoniderma – Bathytentacular – Cercicladia – Chondrocladia – Cladorhiza – Euchelipluma – Koltunicladia – Lollipocladia – Lycopodina – Nullarbora – Patriciacladia

Name

Cladorhizidae Dendy, 1922

• Type genus: Cladorhiza Sars, 1872.

Synonymy

• Cladorhizeae Dendy, 1922: 58 [original spelling, as a section of the subfamilia Esperellinae]
• Cladorhizidae — de Laubenfels, 1936: 122 [subsequent status, elevate to familia]

References

Primary references

• Dendy, A. 1922. Report on the Sigmatotetraxonida collected by H.M.S.‘Sealark’ in the Indian Ocean. In: Reports of the Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905. Volume 7. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 2nd Series, Zoology 18(1): 1–164, pls 1–18. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1922.tb00547.x

Additional 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. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 
• Vacelet, J. 2006. New carnivorous sponges (Porifera, Poecilosclerida) collected from manned submersibles in the deep Pacific. Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 148(4): 553–584. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2006.00234.x Reference page. 
• Vacelet, J. 2008. A new genus of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Poecilosclerida, Cladorhizidae) from the deep N-E Pacific, and remarks on the genus Neocladia. Zootaxa 1752(1): 57–65. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1752.1.3 Reference page. 
• Lopes, D.A., Bravo, A. & Hajdu, E. 2011. New carnivorous sponges (Cladorhizidae: Poecilosclerida: Demospongiae) from off Diego Ramirez Archipelago (south Chile), with comments on taxonomy and biogeography of the family. Invertebrate Systematics 25(5): 407–443. DOI: 10.1071/IS11015 Reference page. 
• Ríos, P., Kelly, M. & Vacelet, J. 2011. Cercicladia australis, a new carnivorous sponge with novel chelae from the Tasman Basin and the Argentine Patagonian Margin (Porifera, Cladorhizidae). Zootaxa 3131(1): 52–62. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3131.1.3 Reference page. 
• Vargas, S., Erpenbeck, D., Göcke, C., Hall, K.A., Hooper, J.N.A., Janussen, D. & Wörheide, G. 2013. Molecular phylogeny of Abyssocladia (Cladorhizidae: Poecilosclerida) and Phelloderma (Phellodermidae: Poecilosclerida) suggests a diversification of chelae microscleres in cladorhizid sponges. Zoologica Scripta 42(1): 106–116. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2012.00560.x Reference page. 
• Hestetun, J.T., Vacelet, J., Boury-Esnault, N., Borchiellini, C., Kelly, M., Ríos, P., Cristobo, J. & Rapp, H.T. 2016. The systematics of carnivorous sponges. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 94(Part A): 327–345. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2015.08.022 Reference page. 
• Goodwin, C.E., Berman, J., Downey, R.V. & Hendry, K.R. 2017. Carnivorous sponges (Porifera : Demospongiae : Poecilosclerida :  Cladorhizidae) from the Drake Passage (Southern Ocean) with a description of eight new species and a review of the family Cladorhizidae in the Southern Ocean. Invertebrate Systematics 31(1): 37–64. DOI: 10.1071/IS16020 Reference page. 
• Ekins, M., Erpenbeck, D., Goudie, L. & Hooper, J.N.A. 2020. New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight. Zootaxa 4878(2): 240–266. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.2 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M., Vacelet, J., Hestetun, J. & Mills, S. 2023. New species of Abyssocladia and two new cladorhizid genera (Porifera, Cladorhizidae) from New Zealand and Australia. Zootaxa 5270(1): 1–47. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5270.1.1 Reference page. 

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