External characters
thinly encrusting.
Colour
red or beige in life; beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | many, regularly-spaced. |
| Texture | soft, very thin. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | opaque. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | vague tracts of styles which meander through choanosome towards surface. |
| Megascleres | styles. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas and Tuamotu islands
Pacific Ocean: Tonga
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope in Marquesas.
In the lagoon, on pinnacles, in Tuamotu.
Queensland Museum (2014). QM2753 Batzella sp. (OTU QM2753) . 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).
