External characters
thickly encrusting, forming cushion-like mounds.
Colour
yellow in life; light brown in ethanol; stains ethanol pale yellow.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | very small, numerous, scattered evenly over upper surface. |
| Texture | soft, easily torn. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | soft, compressible choanosomal region covered by thin surface layer; small, numerous oscules create distinctive pattern on surface. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | small, robust tylostyles form bouquets at surface; ectosome not well represented in section, but bouquets seen intermittently. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | very long, thin tylostyles in dense confusion. |
| Megascleres | tylostyles: 2 size classes. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu and Marquesas archipelagos
Ecology and habitat
On the rocky slope (Marquesas); In the lagoon, on pinacles (Tuamotu)
