External characters
Massive , lobate.
Colour
Tan brown.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | Minute, in small groups on lobes. |
| Texture | Hard, harsh. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | Arenaceous. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Indistinct from choanosome. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | Large tracts of large sand-grains in almost indistinct fibres occupying most of choanosome. Mesohyl is moderately dense and has some sand-grains. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | JA Kennedy |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tahiti
Ecology and habitat
On the outer reef slope
J.A. Kennedy (2014). QM2864 Hyrtios sp. 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).
