Carnivorous sponges from the Australian Bathyal and Abyssal zones collected during the RV Investigator 2017 Expedition Author Ekins, Merrick Author Erpenbeck, Dirk Author Hooper, John N. A. text Zootaxa 2020 2020-05-12 4774 1 1 159 journal article 22182 10.11646/zootaxa.4774.1.1 269cf599-428d-464d-8f21-994d69110c5c 1175-5326 3825140 B0C4A2F8-F2AB-4147-BB12-63720EEF2516 Genus Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964 Abyssocladia Lévi, 1964: 78 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 (from Hestetun et al. 2016a ). Type species . Abyssocladia bruuni Lévi, 1964 (by monotypy). Remarks . Currently there are 31 accepted species assigned to Abyssocladia , ( Van Soest et al. 2019 ) , with only one, Abyssocladia desmophora ( Hooper & Lévi, 1989 ) , previously recorded from the Australian EEZ ( Table 1 ).