Lamellodysidea (2538) - Societe - Tahiti

Lamellodysidea sp. (OTU QM2538) cf. Lamellodysidea herbacea (Keller, 1889) OTU QM2538

Dictyoceratida Dysideidae

External characters

thinly encrusting.

Colour

grey in life.

Skeletal Characters

Oscules raised on small fistules, enclosed by thin transparent membrane.
Texture firm, rubbery, difficult to tear.
Surface_Ornamentation only slightly sculptured, ridges run perpendicular to edge, somewhat bumpy.
Ectosomal_Skeleton fibres run along surface, little coring of fibres.
Choanosomal_Skeleton fibrous; all fibres laminated; primary fibres partially cored by sand and spicules.
Megascleres nil.
Microscleres nil.
Mudmap_Author K Hall
Mudmap_Editor K Hall

Distribution

In French Polynesia: Society islands

 

Ecology and habitat

In the lagoon, rim of the pass, and on the outer reef slope.

Hooper, J.N.A. (2009). QM2538 Lamellodysidea sp.  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).