Genus Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873

Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873: 188; Crinorhiza Schmidt, 1880: 83; Meliiderma Ridley & Dendy, 1887: 102; Not Neocladia Koltun, 1970: 193 (amended from Hajdu & Vacelet 2002).

Diagnosis. Cladorhizidae with a slender stalk and spherical body with filamentous processes that may be inflated and turgid in life. The base of attachment may be root-like or solid. Axial skeleton composed of monactinal megascleres (mycalostyles), from which radiating extra-axial tracts diverge to lateral processes. Microscleres include unguiferous anchorate isochelae (modified from Hajdu & Vacelet 2002).