External characters
thickly encrusting
Colour
vibrant yellow alive
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | sponge with most of the aquiferous system external to the body, large tubular semitransparent canals terminating in one or more oscules |
| Texture | soft |
| Surface_Ornamentation | highly corrugate, lumpy, with radiating surface canals prominent, |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | fibrous, no specialised surface skeleton |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | growing on a reticulate base of thin collagen; few thick heavy fibres with sand core, and highly collagenous choanosomal skeleton |
| Megascleres | Nil |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu is.
Ecology and habitat
On the outer reef slope, on hard substrate.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4848 Darwinella sp (OTU QM4848) . 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).
