Echinodictyum sp - (4862) - Australes - Rapa

Echinodictyum sp (OTU QM4862) OTU QM4862

Axinellida Raspailiidae

External characters

massive, clathrous, tangle of interlocked branches

Colour

dark brown to black alive, grey-brown in etoh

Skeletal Characters

Oscules not observed
Texture harsh
Surface_Ornamentation spiky
Mudmap_Author JNA Hooper
Mudmap_Editor K Hall

Distribution

In French Polynesia: Austral islands

Ecology and habitat

In a muddy bay.

JNA Hooper (2014). QM4862 Echinodictyum sp (OTU QM4862) . 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).