External characters
digitiform, ramose, upright growth form with basal attachment.
Colour
pale cream to purple in life; exterior brown in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | few, sparse, between conules, ovoid, 1–2 mm (d). |
| Texture | light, rubbery, tough, tearable, compressible, easily resilient. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | highly conulose, fibres protrude beyond conules, shiny and smooth between conules, some cobweb patterns; conules 2–3 mm (h), spaced 8–10 mm apart. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | not conspicuously distinguished from choanosome; conules raised by large fibres which protrude though ectosome. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; fibres very large, laminated, no bark, pith clear, irregular in width along single fibre, 60–350 μm (d), sparse, clear with occasional sand debris inclusions; pigment in granules throughout. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope.
K Hall (2014). QM4756 Pseudoceratina sp. (OTU QM4756) . 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).
