External characters
Honeycomb-like, clathrous reticulation of flattened cylindrical branches, forming spherical, elongate-bulbous, arborescent or digitate masses.
Colour
Light brown to grey-brown or beige alive.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | Not differentiated from honeycombed construction. |
| Texture | Firm, compressible, difficult to tear. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | Optically uneven, smooth, microscopically hispid, prominently cavernous. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Interconnected small fibre bundles producing a finer, secondary reticulation on surface. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | Irregularly reticulate, cavernous. |
| Megascleres | Choan. oxeas (150-565 x 3-20 um); subect. styles (157-618 x 2-13 um); ect. spicules absent; echinating acanthostyles with tapering points, evenly spined, fine spines (93-141 x 4-12 um). |
| Microscleres | nil. |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society, Tuamotu and Gambiers islands.
Pacific Ocean: Australia, Micronesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea
Indian Ocean: Western Australia
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
QM0133 Echinodictyum asperum Ridley & Dendy, 1886. 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).
