External characters
bulbous, thick encrusting
Colour
pale yellow in situ; beige in alcohol
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | single oscule seen |
| Texture | soft and firm, compressible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | heavily corrugated and shaggy |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Stylote spicules protruding |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | stylote spicules arranged randomly or forming loose tracts; sand incorporated into sponge; lots of collagen present in the mesohyl |
| Megascleres | Stylote spicules |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Pacific Ocean: Australia, New Caledonia, Tonga
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM2734 Batzella sp. (OTU QM2734) . In: Hall, K.A. & Hooper, J.N.A. (2014) SpongeMaps: an online community for taxonomy and identification of sponges. (Available at http://www.spongemaps.org).
