External characters
bulbous thickly encrusting with tendrils on upper surface
Colour
yellowish brown on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | small, on upper surface surmounted on blind fistules |
| Texture | soft, compressible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | surface shaggy with long tendrils |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosomal skeleton a tangential layer of tylotes with both choanosomal spicules and microscleres protruding paratangentially |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosomal skeleton reticulate, fairly cavernous, with tracts cored by styles and abundant onychaetes; mesohyl very light |
| Megascleres | ectosomal tylotes with prominent and very small microspined tyles, and choanosomal styles with smooth evenly rounded bases |
| Microscleres | onychaetes of two size classes |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
In caves.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4864 Tedania sp (OTU QM4864) . 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).
