External characters
encrusting.
Colour
orange-pinkish in situ, brown on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | not distinct |
| Texture | soft, slimy, collapses out of water |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth, slimy |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | not distinct |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | mainly sand grains with minimal collagen |
| Megascleres | very thin vestigial strongyles, absent in some specimens |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Pacific Ocean: Australia
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope
J Hooper (2014). QM4218 Chondropsis sp. (OTU QM4218) . 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).
