External characters
sponge with some sections interconnecting, forming thick ridges.
Colour
dark grey in life; dark grey in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | medium-sized, with raised lips in life; less apparent in ethanol. |
| Texture | incompressible, harsh, easily broken. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | cob-web patterns, Dysidea-like. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | not apparent. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | relatively regular reticulation of fibres; fibres fully charged. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
On sandy/rocky slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM0736 Psammoclema sp. (OTU QM0736) . 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).
