External characters
burrowing, fistules protrude above sand; fistules thin, blind.
Colour
yellow in life; white in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | none visible; fistules blind. |
| Texture | fistules delicate, fragile; remainder retains shape well. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | highly conulose; hispid appearance. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | not differentiated. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | confused arrangement of megascleres, may be organised into large reticulated skeleton, however, this cannot be determined from current section; highly spiculose; trichodragmata present throughout. |
| Megascleres | styles: 2 size classes. |
| Microscleres | trichodragmata. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
On sandy slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM0857 Ciocalypta sp. (OTU QM0857) . 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).
