Family Stylocordylidae Topsent, 1892

Abstract

Styolocordylidae Topsent (Demospongiae, Hadromerida) is a monotypical family with characteristic club-shaped habit. They are consid-ered closely related to Suberitidae from which they differ in the possession of long centrotylote megascleres building the stalk and form-ing the central core of the main body. The single genus Stylocordyla occurs in deeper water in all three oceans.