External characters
burrowing, fistulose; fistules small, blind, also layer of open fistules.
Colour
fistules white in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
Oscules | terminal on fistules. |
Texture | fistules firm, brittle. |
Surface_Ornamentation | fistules even. |
Ectosomal_Skeleton | erect palisade of oxeas forming thick plush. |
Choanosomal_Skeleton | cavernous, reticulate, multispicular tracts of oxeas forming oval or rectangular meshes. |
Megascleres | oxeas: thick, abruptly pointed (hastate), 120–150 × 10–13 μm. |
Microscleres | nil. |
Mudmap_Author | Queensland Museum |
Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas archipelago is.
Pacific Ocean: Solomon islands, Papua New Guinea, Fiji, Australia
China sea: Malaysia
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope.
QM0331 Siphonodictyon sp. (OTU QM0331) . 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).