External characters
thickly encrusting, forming tough, thin mats (up to ~3mm thick), anastomosing over the substrate; some sections thrown up into ridges, up to 2cm from the encrusting base.
Colour
light blue in life; white-beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | not apparent. |
| Texture | tough, harsh, compressible, able to be torn. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | slightly areolate surface due to thin ectosomal skeleton, otherwise smooth. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | tangential spicules, with rosettes of large anisochelae present in subectosomal region. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | even reticulation of styles, microscleres scattered throughout. |
| Megascleres | mycalostyles. |
| Microscleres | chelae: 2 classes class 1: anisochelae; class 2: isochelae, small; sigmas: 2 size classes. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM2635 Mycale (Zygomycale) sp. (OTU QM2635) . 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).