External characters
thickly encrusting
Colour
bright orange-brown
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large oscules/ cloacas raised above surface |
| Texture | harsh, compressible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth surface |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosome with prominent sand cortex |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosome heavily collagenous, no fibres, abundant detritus and cavernous in places; occasional strongyle seen in mesohyl but likely contaminants |
| Megascleres | Nil |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4879 Psammoclema sp (OTU QM4879) . 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).
