External characters
(Digitate, mud-fauna) or thickly encrusting on barrel spoye n 1cm thick.
Colour
Beige/red alive, white surrounding oscules.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | Apical, on top of small peduncles raised above surface |
| Texture | Soft, Haliclona-like, breakable, slightly sticky |
| Surface_Ornamentation | Deeply pocked, undulating |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Paratangential layer tylotes with erect brushes of styles protruding, and tangential onychaetes common at surface. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | Reticulate, compacted criss-cross of layer styles, no fibres, poor collagen. |
| Megascleres | Styles (260 x 10um) ectosomal tylotes, spined bases (240-250 x 4um) |
| Microscleres | Onychaetes (130 x 2um; 2 sizes 310 x 4-5um) |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | JNA Hooper |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Gambiers islands
Pacific Ocean: Australia
China Sea: Indonesia, Malaysia
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
QM0985 Tedania sp. (OTU QM0985) . 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).
