External characters
fragments only.
Colour
no observations.
Skeletal Characters
Oscules | no observations. |
Texture | no observations. |
Surface_Ornamentation | no observations. |
Ectosomal_Skeleton | not clear in section, however, wispy tracts appear to penetrate surface layer. |
Choanosomal_Skeleton | wispy tracts of subtylostyles in disorganised criss-cross arrangement; scattered tylostyles in between. |
Megascleres | subtylostyles. |
Microscleres | nil. |
Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas and Tuamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope in Marquesas.
In the lagoon, on pinnacles in Tuamotu.
K Hall (2014). QM4713 Batzella sp. (OTU QM4713) . 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).