External characters
massive.
Colour
beige, covered with sediment, in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | not apparent in ethanol. |
| Texture | brittle, relatively fragile, easily broken. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | covered with sediment, specimen encrusted by unidentified haplosclerid. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | tangential layer of small mycalostyles; plumose tracts ascend to support ectosome. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | megascleres in thick tracts; semi-plumose reticulation; many spicules in dense, confused arrangement. |
| Megascleres | mycalostyles: 2 size classes. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands.
Ecology and habitat
In a bay, on sandy slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM0785 Microtylostylifer sp. (OTU QM0785) . 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).
