External characters
thickly encrusting, bulbous mass
Colour
variable from mottled dark brown, pale brown to black in life; dark grey to black in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | many, minute, regularly distributed over the surface. |
| Texture | firm, incompressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | fleshy, collagenous, heavily pigmented; even, unornamented. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous, heavily collagenous with a prominent cortex over 1mm thick; abundant pigment granules in the vicinity of the cortical layer. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | collagenous, no spicules, permeated by fine cavities; mesohyl collagen dense; numerous pigment granules, not as abundant as in ectosome, clustered. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | Patricia Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society, Marquesas, Tuamotu, Austral islands.
Pacific Ocean: Fiji, Solomon islands, Australia, Palau, Pitcairn, Vanuatu, Guam
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope in Marquesas. On the outer reef slope in Tuamotu. On the outer rim of the channel in Austral.
Patricia Sutcliffe (2014). QM2122 Chondrosia corticata Thiele, 1900. 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).
