External characters
thinly encrusting.
Colour
grey in life.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | raised on small fistules, enclosed by thin transparent membrane. |
| Texture | firm, rubbery, difficult to tear. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | only slightly sculptured, ridges run perpendicular to edge, somewhat bumpy. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | fibres run along surface, little coring of fibres. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; all fibres laminated; primary fibres partially cored by sand and spicules. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society islands
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, rim of the pass, and on the outer reef slope.
Hooper, J.N.A. (2009). QM2538 Lamellodysidea sp. 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).
