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 53431 10.11646/zootaxa.5293.3.2 0929883d-fe33-4514-8927-6a4f07b05653 1175-5326 7961272 FE67E8C2-AFE5-491C-B673-2ECE82FA4D87

TABLE 3. Comparative morphological and distributional data for all stalked disc–shaped species of Abyssocladia.

Species	Reference	Morphology	Total height x	Skeleton
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			width (mm)
Abyssocladia falkor nov.	This work	Pedunculate, short erect stem and a vertically	50 x 10	Dense longitudinal bundles of mycalostyles and styles in the axis
sp		orientated disc shaped body with filaments		of peduncle, body with radial skeleton, bundles of mycalostyles
		radiating out in a single plane from the disc		extending into filaments, roots strongyle bundles
		margin
Abyssocladia jeanvaceleti	This work	Pedunculate, short erect stem and a vertically	40 x 30	Dense longitudinal bundles of mycalostyles in the axis of pedun-
sp. nov.		orientated disc shaped body with filaments		cle, body with radial skeleton, bundles of mycalostyles extend-
		radiating out in a single plane from the disc		ing into filaments, roots strongyle bundles
		margin
Abyssocladia annae	Ekins, Erpenbeck	Pedunculate, erect stem supporting a slightly	3 x 2	Peduncle axis longitudinally arranged subtylostyles, body with
Ekins, Erpenbeck &	& Hooper, 2020:	cupped-shaped obovate (leaf-like, flabel-		radiating subtylostyles projecting only in one quadrant
Hooper, 2020	23–25, Fig. 4	late, fan-shaped) apical body, lacking lateral
		filaments
Abyssocladia carcharias	Kelly & Vacelet,	Pedunculate, long thin, flattened circular	7 x 3.4	Dense longitudinal bundles of mycalostyles in the axis of pedun-
Kelly & Vacelet, 2011	2011: 58–60, Figs.	body, with short blunt radiating filaments		cle, body with radial skeleton, bundles of mycalostyles extend-
	2–3			ing into filaments
Abyssocladia dominalba	Vacelet, 2006:	Long thin pedunculate with an ovoid or	28–31	Peduncle axis with longitudinally arranged long fusiform styles,
Vacelet, 2006	575–577, Fig. 14	subspherical body, body with dense spicular		supported by radiating bundles of fusiform styles and smaller
		bundles laterally radiating		styles with tips directed outwards
Abyssocladia fryerae	Hestetun, Rapp &	Pedunculate, short stem, disc-shaped droplet-	25 x 12	Stem with tightly packed subtylostyles entering center of
Hestetun, Rapp & Pom-	Pomponi, 2019:4,	like body, radiating long filaments in a single		disc-shaped body with radial skeleton, filaments and disc also
poni, 2019	Fig. 2	plane from disc margin		composed of subtylostyles
Abyssocladia huitzilo-	Vacelet, 2006:	Erect pedunculated, enlarged base, long thin	41 x 0.3– 0.6	Axis of peduncle tightly packed with longitudinal bundles of
pochtli Vacelet, 2006	569–573, Figs.	peduncle, flattened semicircular disc-like		long substrongyles, body with radiating bundles and irregularly
	9–11	body, with numerous free radiating spicule		dispersed large substrongyles, filaments with smaller bundles of
		fascicles protruding		substrongyles
Abyssocladia inflata	Vacelet, 2006:	Thin pedunculate, flattened discform body,	8.5 x 3.5	Axis with longitudinally arranged styles extremely reduced liv-
Vacelet, 2006	573–575,	hispid surface, with short filaments		ing tissue, body with skeleton of radiating styles protruding from
	Figs. 12–13			surface
			width (mm)
Abyssocladia kellyae	Hestetun, Rapp &	Long stalk with disc-shaped body and radial	43 x 7	Main skeleton with tightly arranged longitudinal mycalostyles,
Hestetun, Rapp & Pom-	Pomponi, 2019: 5,	filaments in a single plane on disc margin,		Radiating filaments composed of mycalostyles, subtylostyles and
poni, 2019	Fig. 3	enlarged basal plate		tylostyles within sponge body
Abyssocladia lakwollii	Vacelet & Kelly,	Pedunculate, flattened disc attached to a thin	up to 57	Peduncle tightly packed longitudinal bundles of large mycalo-
Vacelet & Kelly, 2014	2014: 387–392,	peduncle with radiating filaments forming a		styles, basal attachment tightly packed shorter mycalostyles 1
	Figs. 1–3	flat to concave umbrella		and substrongyles, mycalostyles 1 of the peduncle fan out in the
				disc, diverging into radiating bundles towards the rim, disc with
				many small diverging bundles of mycalostyles 2
Abyssocladia oxyasters	Ekins, Erpenbeck,	Pedunculate, erect, long thin stem with	140–160 x	Axis of stem and filaments with longitudinal bundles of myca-
Ekins, Erpenbeck, Goudie	Goudie & Hooper,	plano-convex disc shaped body on apex	0.6	lostyles 1, basal holdfasts contain smaller thicker curved oxeote
& Hooper, 2020	2020: 247–251,	encircled by radiating filaments, and conical		anisostyles 2
	Figs. 4–6	basal disc holdfast
Abyssocladia natushimae	Ise & Vacelet,	Erect pedunculate long stem on circular	88 x 1–2.2	Base cored by substrongyles, short microstrongyles and micro-
Ise & Vacelet, 2010	2010:889–892,	base, mop-like inflated apical body with long		scleres, axis of peduncle tightly packed with long mycalostyles
	Figs. 2–5	filaments in one plane, ending with inflated		longitudinally and spirally arranged, upper part of peduncle
		bulbous tips		covered by soft tissue packed with microstrongyles and few
				microscleres, axis of filaments supported by bundles of mycalo-
				styles and microstrongyles
Abyssocladia polycepha-	Hestetun, Pomponi	Erect pedunculate central stem with side	35	Densely packed bundles of mycalostyles in the central stem and
lus Hestetun, Pomponi &	& Rapp, 2016:	branches each ending in a disclike		branches, radiating bundles of mycalostyles projecting from the
Rapp, 2016	523–525, Figs. 2–3	body bearing filamentous projections		body and constituting the skeleton of the filaments, disc-shaped
				body also with a network of less well organized subtylostyles
Abyssocladia stegosau-	Hestetun, Rapp &	Stalked, vertical disc-shaped radial body,	48 x 1–3	core axis of longitudinal, tight tracts of mycalostyles, fleshy
rensis Hestetun, Rapp &	Pomponi, 2019:	filaments radiating in a single plane from		parts of radial body with subtylostyles and tylostyles bases, base
Pomponi, 2019	11, Fig. 5	disc margin,		with styles or substrongyles