Abyssocladia vaceleti (Porifera, Cladorhizidae): a new deep-sea carnivorous sponge from Patagonia
Author
Ríos, Pilar
Author
Cristobo, Javier
text
Zootaxa
2018
2018-08-31
4466
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164
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journal article
29376
10.11646/zootaxa.4466.1.13
3920856d-4923-4276-ae0b-e8b3478df276
1175-5326
1442074
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Genus
Abyssocladia
Lévi, 1964
Diagnosis.
Cladorhizidae
most often pedunculate, carrying a disciform or flabelliform body with a radial architecture, in other cases pinnate or branching. Microscleres are a combination of abyssochelae, cleistochelae, arcuate chelae and/or sigmancistras, but not placochelae (
Hestetun
et al
., 2015
).