Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Poecilosclerida > Family Cladorhizidae > Genus Chondrocladia > Subgenus Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia)

Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) grandis (Verrill, 1879)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Desmacidon Bowerbank, 1861

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Chondrocladia*	Thomson, 1873	accepted genus name
*Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia)*	Thomson, 1873	taxonomically included in

Species group names

*Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) gigantea*	(Hansen, 1885)	synonym
*Cladorhiza grandis*	Verrill, 1879	synonym
*Cladorhiza nobilis*	Fristedt, 1887	synonym

Literature

basis of record	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, 1-69.
additional source	Dinn, C.; Leys, S.P. (2018). Field Guide to sponges of Eastern Canadian Arctic. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton AB, T6G 2E9. 1-102.

Genbank

Citation

de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Chondrocladia (Chondrocladia) grandis (Verrill, 1879). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1023293