New carnivorous sponges from the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia collected by ROV from the RV FALKOR Author Ekins, Merrick Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia & School of Biological Sciences, University of Queensland, St Lucia, Queensland, 4072 Australia & Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia Author Hooper, John N. A. 0000-0003-1722-5954 Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia & Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia & john. hooper @ qm. qld. gov. au; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 1722 - 5954 john.hooper@qm.qld.gov.au text Zootaxa 2023 2023-05-23 5293 3 435 471 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.2 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.2 1175-5326 7961272 FE67E8C2-AFE5-491C-B673-2ECE82FA4D87 Subgenus Chondrocladia Thomson, 1873 Diagnosis : Chondrocladia without a layer of special spicules (subtrochirhabds or trochirhabds), lacking special rostriform (snoutlike) subtylostyles in filaments or terminal balls, and without planar vanes formed of evenly spaced upright branches (from Lee et al ., 2012 ). Type species : Chondrocladia virgata Thomson, 1873 (by monotypy). Remarks . The genus Chondrocladia was summarised in Table 6 of Lopes et al. (2011) , and updated to include additional information and recently described species in Table 10 in Ekins et al. (2020a) .