External characters
thickly encrusting, creeping branches.
Colour
royal blue with white colored ectosome draped across in life; light blue in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | few, scattered, with thin, transparent, raised lip. |
| Texture | soft, easily compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | fibres protude through surface producing conulose surface; transparent ectosome draped between fibres. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | fibres cored with sand and foreign spicules, parallel to surface, occasional projections which protrude through surface. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; reticulated; fibres cored with sand and foreign spicules; collagen abundant; spicules and sand throughout. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
Rocky slope.
