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).