External characters
fragment; massive, amorphous, deep surface crevices.
Colour
blue-grey in life; interior grey to cream, exterior darker in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | few, sparse, large, rounded, 6–7 mm (d), between ridges. |
| Texture | soft, tears, compressible, resilient. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | regularly shaggy, highly conulose, fibres protrude through tips of conules; conules 3–4 mm (h), spaced ~6 mm apart. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | distinguished from choanosome; conules raised by large fibres which protrude through ectosome; large amount of detritus incorporated at surface; ectosome pigmented. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; fibres thick, not laminated, very strongly cored with sand, obscuring detail; mesohyl incorporates sand grains and pigment in granules. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | Kathryn Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society, Australes islands.
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, in caves, in sandy/sedimentary environment.
Kathryn Hall (2012). QM4759 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).
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