External characters
spherical, resembles Stelletta clavosa ("dingle berries")
Colour
pale orange to yellow-brown and mauve tinge (the latter probably cyanobacteria
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | single apical oscule |
| Texture | very soft and shiny |
| Surface_Ornamentation | macroscopically smooth although microscopically appears "hairy" |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | collagenous ectosome with sparse tracts of strongyles/ stongyloxeas ascending through to the surface and abundant collagen |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | collagenous choanosome with very sparse wavy tracts of strongyles/ stongyloxeas, with tracts parallel to each other ascending through to the surface |
| Megascleres | strongyles ranging to strongyloxeas (270 um x 4-5 um). |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Pacific Ocean: Vanuatu
Ecology and habitat
Outer rim of the pass.
J Hooper (2014). QM2535 Strongylacidon sp. (OTU QM2535) . 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).
