External characters
small conical volcano or soft tubes on a common thick base, encrusting on a coral rubble and algae base
Colour
without pigment or greyish-bluish alive
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | single apical oscule |
| Texture | soft |
| Surface_Ornamentation | surface looks fibrous, looks like a typical Dysidea |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | without sand cortex |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | regular skeleton of thin cored primary fibres with a regular uncored secondary skeleton in between, minimal collagen |
| Megascleres | Nil |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Gambier archipelago
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon.
Hooper, J.N.A. (2009). QM4847 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).
