Siphonodictyon sp - (331) - Marquises - Ua Pou

Siphonodictyon sp. (OTU QM0331) OTU QM0331

Haplosclerida Phloeodictyidae

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).