External characters
thickly encrusting resembling a didemnid ascidian
Colour
greenish and dark blue mottled sponge alive, more evenly green on deck, with the darker portions representing the aquiferous system positioned on the external surface
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large flaccid oscules scattered over the surface and raised above it |
| Texture | firm, harsh, sandy |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth, even, mottled, irregular hexagonal patterns |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | no special skeleton |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | sections riddled with calcareous detritus, surrounded by an irregular skeleton of tornotes and fewer and shorter styles |
| Megascleres | larger tornotes, shorter styles, both straight and thin |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4861 Chondropsis sp (OTU QM4861) . 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).
