Tedania sp - (4874) - Societe - Tahiti

Tedania sp. (OTU QM4874) OTU QM4874

Poecilosclerida Tedaniidae

External characters

partially burrowing, fistular, with fistules appearing solid and tendril-like, especially on deck

Colour

yellow alive and on deck

Skeletal Characters

Oscules not observed
Texture soft, mucusy, fragile
Surface_Ornamentation surface smooth
Ectosomal_Skeleton ectosomal skeleton with tangental tornotes but not restricted to the surface skeleton
Choanosomal_Skeleton choanosomal skeleton vaguely reticulate, dense, with tight tracts of styles and tornotes; mesohyl with light collagen but dense onychaetes and tight skeletal meshes
Megascleres choanosomal styles robust and with evenly rounded bases, ectosomal tornotes with minutely microspined bases, slightly asymmetrical
Microscleres long thin microspined onychaetes possibly in 2 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). QM4874 Tedania sp. (OTU QM4874) . 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).