External characters
bulbous, flattened plate at base as holdfast.
Colour
white in life (colouration probably lost); white in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large, open, obvious on upper surface of bulb apices. |
| Texture | firm, gelatinous. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | opaque, membranous, smooth.; collagenous, no pigment; faint network of small sunken pits and slightly higher ridges slightly visible. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | thick, membranous, obscured by dense layer of detritus; no pigment cells. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | distinct from ectosome; mesohyl collagen heavy, homogeneous, few pigment cells scattered throughout; no detritus. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society islands
Pacific Ocean: Palau
Ecology and habitat
In caves.
QM2212 Chondrosia sp. (OTU QM2212) . 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).
