External characters
digitate, short, branching digits attached to common base, digits cylindrical.
Colour
yellow-orange, pinkish, bluish, pale purple, light brown, grey brown or grey in life; grey in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | small, scattered between conules. |
| Texture | soft, fragile, insubstantial. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | sharply conulose, conules interconnected by ridges. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous, with layer of sandy fibres interconnnected by opaque membrane. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | irregularly plumose-reticulate; fibres fully cored by sand, form ovoid meshes; collagen heavy, with sparse detritus, usually well -pigmented. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society, Tuamotu, Marquesas, Australes islands
Ecology and habitat
Mostly in the lagoon, on sediment, dead corals.
