External characters
thickly encrusting.
Colour
Yellow to olive green alive. Creamy-white in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large terminal oscules on conulose fistules, not visible on the preserved specimen |
| Texture | Compressible, easy to tear. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | lumpy, rough, microscopically wrinkled. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous with tips of spicule brushes protruding, and with or without thin crust of foreign material |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | Dense mesohyl collagen cored foreign material (spicules, sand grain) and native spicules forming wavy tracts |
| Megascleres | thin strongyles, usually curved, sometimes strongyloxeas (100-300 um) |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands.
Pacific Ocean: Australia
Ecology and habitat
Outer rim of the pass
J Hooper (2014). QM3658 Chondropsis sp. (OTU QM3658) . 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).
