External characters
lobate, massive, with distinctly conulose surface; clumps with large oscules on each clump.
Colour
yellow in life; black in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | numerous, moderately sized, irregular openings level with surface; only occur between conules. |
| Texture | firm, compressible, harsh, fibrous. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | opaque, membranous; uneven, conulose, prominently sculptured. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | thick, darkly pigmented membrane. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibres widely-spaced, thick, permeate mesohyl, with poorly formed bark elements,seem to totally lack pith; mesohyl collagenous, darkly pigmented. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society and Tuamotu archipelago is.
Pacific Ocean: Solomon islands, Vanuatu.
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope. In a muddy bay (Society is.)
Queensland Museum (2014). QM2121 Suberea sp. (OTU QM2121) . 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).
