External characters
digitate branching, cylindrical digits, slightly flattened
Colour
mauve alive
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | oscules raised on lobes on lateral sides |
| Texture | spongy, compressible, rubbery, flexible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | surface even macroscopically, goose-flesh microscopically |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosomal skeleton collagenous with large primary fibres irregular |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosome with light collagen and well developed spongin fibre skeleton |
| Megascleres | Nil |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope, and near the outer rim of the pass.
Hooper, J.N.A. (2014). QM4856 Dactylospongia 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).
