External characters
massive or club-shaped, subspherical, encrusting.
Colour
golden yellow, mustard yellow or yellow-brown in life; pigment aerophobic.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | small, between conules. |
| Texture | firm, barely compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | conules prominent, evenly distributed. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous, thick, fibres protrude into surface conules. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibres large, widely spaced, heavily striated; mesohyl collagen very heavy, some detritus. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society, Marquesas, Tuamotu archipelago is.
Pacific Ocean: Fiji, Solomon islands, Australia, Philippines
Indian Ocean: Western Australia
China sea: Malaysia
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope or on rocky slope in Marquesas is..
J Hooper (2014). QM0012 Suberea ianthelliformis (Lendenfeld, 1889). 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).
