Callyspongia sp - (2708) - Tuamotu - Toau

Callyspongia (Euplacella) sp. (OTU QM2708) OTU QM2708

Haplosclerida Callyspongiidae

External characters

Thickly encrusting on a burrowing Aka sponge

Colour

drab brown

Skeletal Characters

Oscules .none observed
Texture firm, compressible
Surface_Ornamentation optically smooth, microscopically rough and shaggy
Ectosomal_Skeleton .thick tufts of spicules in bundles erect on the surface fibres
Choanosomal_Skeleton regular ovoid meshes formed by well developed spongin fibres cored by several to few spicules
Megascleres small, thin oxeas with rounded barely pointed ends
Microscleres Nil
Mudmap_Author J Hooper
Mudmap_Editor J Hooper

External characters

Massive with tubular oscules, and epiphyted surface

Dimensions

~ 10 cm large.

Colour

Black

Distribution

In French Polynesia: Tuamotu archipelago is.

Ecology and habitat

In the lagoon, on pinnacles.