New carnivorous sponges and allied species from the Great Australian Bight 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 Erpenbeck, Dirk 0000-0003-2716-1085 Dept. of Earth and Environmental Sciences Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich, Germany & GeoBio-Center, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Richard-Wagner-Strasse 10, 80333 Munich, Germany erpenbeck @ lmu. de; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2716 - 1085 erpenbeck@lmu.de Author Goudie, Lisa 0000-0003-2569-8903 Consultant, Victoria, Australia. goudielj @ bigpond. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 2569 - 8903 goudielj@bigpond.com Author Hooper, John N. A. Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane 4101, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia & Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery, Griffith University, Brisbane 4111, Queensland, Australia text Zootaxa 2020 2020-11-13 4878 2 240 266 journal article 7937 10.11646/zootaxa.4878.2.2 0ecaeb51-3fad-4aad-92c6-d6f0bd8eff54 1175-5326 4424977 111A9D05-860F-4917-A466-A44847B2D650 Genus Nullarbora gen. nov. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act: 313FA390-1049-41D6-9CEA-EBFD7B811BCE Type species: Nullarbora heptaxia gen nov. sp. nov. Definition: Cladorhizidae with anchorate anisochelae and a pinnate body shape, i.e. filaments at right angle to a straight stem. Etymology: Nullus L. null, Arbor L. trees. The Nullarbor Plain is also the name of the land surrounding the Great Australian Bight from where the newly discovered species in this manuscript were collected. Species also included: N. acanthoxea ( Hestetun, Fourt, Vacelet, Boury-Esnault & Rapp, 2015 ) , N. caillieti ( Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2014 ) , N. evae ( Lundsten, Reiswig & Austin, 2014 ) , N. fristedtii ( Lambe, 1900 ) , N. grimaldii ( Topsent, 1909 ) , N. investigator ( Ekins, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2020 ) , N. linearis ( Ridley & Dendy, 1887 ) , N. microchela ( Lévi, 1964 ) , N. penniformis ( Göcke & Janussen, 2013 ) , N. pteron ( Reiswig & Lee, 2007 ) , N. rectangularis ( Ridley & Dendy, 1886 ) , N. segonzaci ( Vacelet, 2006 ) and N. septemdentalis ( Koltun, 1970 ) .