The holotype growing on the underside of a medium-sized coral boulder beside serpulid polychaete tubes, other demosponges, such as Mycale alagoana Cedro et al. 2011 and Mycale sp. (probably M. (Aegogropila) escarlatei Hajdu et al. 1995 or M. (Naviculina) diversisigmata van Soest, 1984), and the foraminiferan Homotrema rubrum (Lamarck)