External characters
spherical.
Colour
white, covered with silt in life; white, covered with silt in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | numerous porocalyces scattered regularly over surface. |
| Texture | firm, barely compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | dense, spiculose, with silt covering; even, hispid. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | multispicular, with a continuous palisade of megascleres paratangential to surface, fine silt layer partially obscures detail; thick layer of microxeas in confused arrangement in subectosomal region. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | radial arrangement of megascleres in pauci- to multispicular bundles, abundant microscleres in confused arrangement between bundles; mesohyl collagen light, moderately homogeneous. |
| Megascleres | oxeas: ~1600–2700 µm; anatriaenes. |
| Microscleres | microxeas: ~260 µm; sigmaspires: ~14 µm. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society archipelago is.
Pacific Ocean: Vanuatu
Ecology and habitat
In a muddy bay.
Queensland Museum (2014). QM2119 Cinachyrella sp. (OTU QM2119) . 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).
