External characters
Thickly encrusting on a burrowing Aka sponge
Colour
drab brown
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | .none observed |
| Texture | firm, compressible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | optically smooth, microscopically rough and shaggy |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | .thick tufts of spicules in bundles erect on the surface fibres |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | regular ovoid meshes formed by well developed spongin fibres cored by several to few spicules |
| Megascleres | small, thin oxeas with rounded barely pointed ends |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | J Hooper |
External characters
Massive with tubular oscules, and epiphyted surface
Dimensions
~ 10 cm large.
Colour
Black
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
