Abyssocladia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Poecilosclerida
- Family: Cladorhizidae
- Genus: Abyssocladia
Overview
- Abyssocladia is a genus of carnivorous sponges within the family Cladorhizidae (order Poecilosclerida).[2]
- Species assignments and authorship are cataloged by major biodiversity databases (GBIF lists Abyssocladia as an accepted genus; authority credited to Lévi, 1964).[3]
Distribution and habitat (general)
Members of Abyssocladia are deep-sea sponges associated with the bathyal zone in the South Pacific; recent taxonomic work focuses on specimens collected south of New Caledonia in bathyal environments.[2]
Visual Description
Typical external form (based on image records)
In image-based sponge repositories, Abyssocladia is represented by deep-sea cladorhizid morphologies, typically appearing as erect or ramified growth forms rather than massive reef-like shapes.[1]
Selected species from recent taxonomy
A Zootaxa contribution by Jean Vacelet (2020) describes three additional species of Abyssocladia from the deep South Pacific (south of New Caledonia): A. kanaconi, A. microstrongylata, and A. mucronata.[2]
Gallery
References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Poecilosclerida / Cladorhizidae / Abyssocladia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 3 Jean Vacelet. 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. 2020. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4767.2.3.
- ↑ Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/2243451. Accessed 2026-07-09.