External characters
thinly encrusting, slightly lobate, subspherical
Colour
live colouration ranging from pink to pale white when growing in shelter; grey in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | obvious, one to several per lobe, with raised lip |
| Texture | soft, slimy |
| Surface_Ornamentation | even, unornamented: opaque, optically smooth. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | skin-like, collagenous; may have "leopard-spotted" appearance in cross section with dark pigment granules forming dense "crust" |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | with dense collagen and pigment granules throughout, some cavernous oval canals, some canals appear to be lined with type A spongin |
| Megascleres | nil |
| Microscleres | nil |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu is.
Pacific Ocean: Australia
Hooper, J.N.A. (2014). QM1485 Halisarca laxus. 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).
