External characters
spherical, spiky in situ, buds over surface
Colour
bright yelllow with specks of black
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | no porocalyces observed, but several large oscules visible between surface spikes |
| Texture | stiff, spiky |
| Surface_Ornamentation | large spikes prominent in situ |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | surface reinforced with small angular oxeas, large oxeas protrude through forming surface spikes; black pigment cells speckle ectosomal region |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | radial |
| Megascleres | long straight robust oxeas, ranging down to shorter version of the same spicule; small angular oxeas; no triaenes observed but may be rare or broken |
| Microscleres | sigmaspires, potentially microxeas but these may be smaller forms of megascleres |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | J Hooper |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society archipelago is.
Pacific Ocean: Papua New Guinea
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope.
J Hooper (2014). QM4827 Cinachyrella sp. (OTU QM4827) . 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).
