External characters
globular.
Colour
yellow in life; white in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | porocalyces scattered irregularly over surface. |
| Texture | firm, incompressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | thick white cortex visible where cut; choanosome appears cavernous. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | not apparent in section. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | oxeas in large, thick bundles. |
| Megascleres | oxeas; anatriaenes: 2 size classes; protriaenes: 2 size classes. |
| Microscleres | sigmaspires, microxeas. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
On rocky or sandy slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM4680 Cinachyrella sp. (OTU QM4680) . 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).
