External characters
thickly encrusting.
Colour
red in life; brown in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | no observations. |
| Texture | soft, compressible (despite high sediment load throughout sponge). |
| Surface_Ornamentation | irregular to conical shaped "domes" (conules) with sediment incorporated in tips; fibrous nature visible under dissecting microscope. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | collagenous, slightly arenaceous |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; fibres cored with detritus; mesohyl collagen granular, homogeneous, with occasional sediment. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands.
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on hard substrate.
Hooper, J.N.A. (2009). QM2975 Dysidea 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).
