External characters
encrusting, sections projecting regularly above basal layer.
Colour
red in life; beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | not apparent in ethanol. |
| Texture | soft, crumbly; contracts into small knobbles in ethanol. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | velvety, finely convoluted layer, some projections extend 5 cm from surface. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | very thin, light, tangential. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | primary skeleton reneiroid, composed of acanthostyles; secondary skeleton multispicular, tracts of smooth tylostyles; highly spiculose. |
| Megascleres | acanthostyles; tylostyles: 2 size classes. |
| Microscleres | chelae: isochelae. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM4699 Antho (Antho) sp. (OTU QM4699) . 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).
