External characters
thickly encrusting to massive, invasive and destructive to corals.
Colour
red in life; beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Megascleres | subtylostyles: 51–660 ×15–20 μm. |
| Microscleres | raphides: arranged in trichodragmata, 60–70 μm sigmas: 2 size classes; class 1: small, 14–18 × 1.5 μm; class 2: large, 36–50 × 4–5μm anisochelae: 3 size classes: class 1: large 130–150 μm; class 2: medium, 28–32 μm; class 3: small, 18–22μm. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope.
Queensland Museum (2014). QM3008 Mycale (Mycale) grandis Gray, 1867. 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).
