Chondrocladia lyra

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: Chondrocladia
Subgenus: Chondrocladia (Symmetrocladia)
Species: Chondrocladia lyra

Name

Chondrocladia lyra Lee, Reiswig, Austin & Lundsten, 2012: 262

• Holotype: CASIZ 18877, collected by ROV Tiburon dive T891, sample A2, on 30 August 2005.
• Type locality: “South Escanaba Ridge, California, USA, 40.983064°N, 127.494034°W, 3317.6 m”.

References

Primary references

• Lee, W.L., Reiswig, H.M., Austin, W.C. & Lundsten, L. 2012. An extraordinary new carnivorous sponge, Chondrocladia lyra, in the new subgenus Symmetrocladia (Demospongiae, Cladorhizidae), from off of northern California, USA. Invertebrate Biology 131(4): 259–284. DOI: 10.1111/ivb.12001 Reference page. 

Links

• Chondrocladia lyra in the World Register of Marine Species