External characters
thinly encrusting.
Colour
olive-green in life; dark purple in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | several, conspicuous, discrete, moderately small, with slightly raised membranous lips, collapse out of water. |
| Texture | soft, compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | opaque, membranous, optically smooth; uneven, dendritic, conulose surface, with some sections of surface raised above and separated from underlying sponge. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous, irregularly pushed up into conules by dendritic choanosomal fibres; membrane may incorporate some scattered fine sand-grain detritus. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | no fibres observed but must be present to push up surface, appear to be dendritic; some fine scattered sand detritus in mesohyl; mesohyl collagen darkly pigmented purple, obscures most detail. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society, Tuamotu is.
Pacific Ocean: Vanuatu
Ecology and habitat
Mostly in the lagoon, on hard substrate.
QM2034 Aplysilla sp. (OTU QM2034) . 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).