External characters
massive, complex, very fleshy, encrusting.
Colour
sulphur yellow; yellow on deck; brown in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | sieve-plates. |
| Texture | firm, barely compressible, fibrous, tearable. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | large conules, membranous, opaque. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | dense layer of detritus in some areas only. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibres with distinct pith, filled with detritus, bark visible; some detritus in matrix, not bound by fibres; mesohyl collagen dense, slightly granular. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society and Tuamotu archipelago is.
Pacific Ocean: Vanuatu
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope or fringing coral reef slope. In the lagoon on pinnacles in Tuamotu is.
K Hall (2014). QM2872 Suberea sp. (OTU QM2872) . 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).