External characters
thickly encrusting mat
Colour
pale pinkish white alive, khaki brown in air
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large oscules sunken into pits on surface bulbs, with raised solid lip |
| Texture | firm, compressible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | surface covered with "sucker-like" conules with raised lips |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosomal with a very thin, transparent layer of collagen and fine acanthoxeas in a nearly regular isodictyal reticulation,(triangular meshes) |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosome with long plumose dendritic tracs of tornotes that support the surface conules and run through the choanosome |
| Megascleres | megascleres long straight tornotes or anisostyles with very slightly asymmetrical rounded ends, two categories of acanthose oxeas, large ones incorporated into the skelal tracts or loose in the mesohyl and small thin microspined ones centrally curved |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
Outer rim of the pass.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4876 Tedania sp. (OTU QM4876) . 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).
