Cladorhiza

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
Genus: Cladorhiza
Species (26): C. abyssicola – C. arctica – C. bathycrinoides – C. corallophila – C. corticocancellata – C. depressa – C. diminuta – C. elsaae – C. ephyrula – C. flosabyssi – C. gelida – C. iniquidentata – C. inversa – C. kenchingtonae – C. mani – C. methanophila – C. moruliformis – C. nematophora – C. nicoleae – C. oxeata – C. pentacrinus – C. scanlonae – C. schistochela – C. tenuisigma – C. thomsoni – C. tridentata

Name

Cladorhiza Sars, 1872: 65

Type species: Cladorhiza abyssicola Sars, 1872, by monotypy.

Synonyms

Exaxinata de Laubenfels, 1936: 122
- Type species: Cladorhiza oxeata Lundbeck, 1905, by original designation.
Raoa de Laubenfels, 1936: 123
- Type species: Cladorhiza tridentata Ridley & Dendy, 1886, by original designation.

References

Primary references

Sars, G.O. 1872. On some remarkable forms of animal life from the great deeps off the Norwegian coast. Part 1, partly from posthumous manuscripts of the late prof. Mich. Sars. University Program for the 1rs half-year 1869. Brøgger & Christie: Christiania. viii + 82 pp., pls 1–6. BHL Reference page.
Laubenfels, M.W. de. 1936. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 467 (Tortugas Laboratory Paper 30): 1–225, pls. 1–22. Reference page.

Additional references

Lopes, D.A. & Hajdu, E. 2014. Carnivorous sponges from deep-sea coral mounds in the Campos Basin (SW Atlantic), with the description of six new species (Cladorhizidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae). Marine Biology Research 10(4): 329–356. DOI: 10.1080/17451000.2013.797587 Reference page.
Göcke, C., Hestetun, J.T., Uhlir, C., Freiwald, A., Beuck, L. & Janussen, D. 2016. Cladorhiza corallophila sp. nov., a new carnivorous sponge (Cladorhizidae, Demospongiae) living in close association with Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata (Scleractinia). Zootaxa 4168(3): 512–524. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4168.3.4. Reference page.
Castello-Branco, C., Hestetun, J.T., Rapp, H.T. & Hajdu, E. 2016. Taxonomy of Cladorhiza in the deep SW Atlantic: C. nicoleae sp. nov. and redescription of C. inversa (Cladorhizidae, Poecilosclerida, Demospongiae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 96(2): 297–303. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315415000211 Reference page.
Hestetun, J.T., Tompkins-MacDonald, G. & Rapp, H.T. 2017. A review of carnivorous sponges (Porifera: Cladorhizidae) from the Boreal North Atlantic and Arctic. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 181(1): 1–69. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlw022 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.
Eck, C., Kröner, X. & Janussen, D. 2024. Taxonomic Investigations on Cladorhizidae (Carnivorous Sponges) of the East Scotia Ridge (Antarctica) with the Description of Three New Species. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 12(4): 612. DOI: 10.3390/jmse12040612 Reference page.

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