External characters
subspherical, lobate, bulbous.
Colour
cream to pale yellow in life; interior beige, exterior chocolate brown in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large, apical on lobes. |
| Texture | soft, compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | even (but covered in epiphytic growth), with small ridges. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | thickly collagenous, with sparse oxeas in confused reticulation. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | heavily collagenous, no fibres, scattered oxeas throughout mesohyl, in tracts or singly. |
| Megascleres | oxeas: with pointed or rounded tips, 700 × 10 μm. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | Queensland Museum |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Large distribution in Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope/wall.
Queensland Museum (2014). QM0452 Epipolasis sp. (OTU QM0452) . 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).
