Notes: Excavating sponge. Amber brown-tan papillae. One specimen has tylostyles and thick spirasters; the other specimen only has tylostyles. It may be a young form of Cliona varians (Duch. & Mich., 1864), also pictured, but it needs to be compared with C. flavifodina Rützler, 1974 and C. paucispina Rützler, 1974, which we have not yet found.