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 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 38 accepted species assigned to Abyssocladia (de Voogd et al . 2022) , with only five previously recorded from the Australian EEZ i.e. A. annae Ekins, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2020a , A. desmophora ( Hooper & Lévi, 1989 ) , A. escheri Ekins, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2020a , A. gliscofila Ekins, Erpenbeck & Hooper, 2020a and A. oxyasters Ekins, Erpenbeck, Goudie & Hooper, 2020b . Three new species of Abyssocladia were also recently reported from New Caledonia ( Vacelet 2020 ). They are A. kanaconi Vacelet, 2020 , A. microstrongylata Vacelet, 2020 and A. mucronata Vacelet, 2020 (the latter now accepted as Echinostylinos gorgonopsis Lévi, 1993 ( Vacelet & Kelly 2022 ).