Batzella sp - (4713) - Marquises - Tahuata

Batzella sp. (OTU QM4713) OTU QM4713

Poecilosclerida Chondropsidae

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).