External characters
Bulbous encrusting
Colour
Pinkish alive, white in ethanol with black contaminants throughout sponge.
Skeletal Characters
Oscules | Large on apex of bulbs |
Texture | Brittle, compressible. |
Surface_Ornamentation | Smooth |
Megascleres | Oxeas, 2 size classes |
Microscleres | Nil |
Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
Mudmap_Editor | J Hooper |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Austral archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
Under the rocks, on a flat bottom of slab.
J Hooper (2014). QM4223 Chalinula sp. (OTU QM4223) . 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).