External characters
bulbous, thinly encrusting
Colour
pale blue alive
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | moderately large, abundant, flush with upper surface |
| Texture | soft, spongy |
| Surface_Ornamentation | even, microscopically reticulate, highly porous |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | no special skeleton |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | heavily cored with oxeas of one size class – lots of extra oxeas scattered densely throughout mesohyl – incorporates small amounts of sandy debris – heirarchical fibre reticulation |
| Megascleres | oxeas of a single size class |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Austral islands
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on coral sand, channel bottom.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4863 Dactylia sp. (OTU QM4863) . 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).
