External characters
Encrusting; cushions or mounds attached to hard substrate.
Colour
red in life
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | small, apical to raised portions of sponge, numerous; not visible in ethanol. |
| Texture | compressible, dense, easily torn. |
| Surface ornamentation | rugose, ridges collapse slightly in ethanol, but remain visible. |
| Ectosomal skeleton | rhabdostyles and centrangulate acanthose microxeas at surface, form tangential layer. |
| Choanosomal skeleton | confused skeleton of very large styles and rhabdostyles, with centrangulate acanthose microxeas scattered throughout. |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas is.
Ecology and habitat
Rocky slope
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM4743 Hymerhabdia sp. (OTU QM4743) . 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).
