External characters
elongate cylindrical digitate growth form with multiple points of attachment to the substrate, and incorporating rubble, suggesting it is found on rubble substrates rather than reef
Colour
pale grey brown on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | very small, collapses in air |
| Texture | harsh, compressible, soft |
| Surface_Ornamentation | surface prominently conulose with sharp conules and filamentous tips |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosome with an irregular light spatter of detritus but not equivalent to a crust |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosomal skeleton with some large spongin fibres, wide meshes and vaguely reticulate, with partial core of spicule fragments (but not all fibres and occupying only a small part of their diameter), and the light mesohyl also containing abundant foreign spicules of just about every variety (a sediment trap) |
| Megascleres | Nil |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tahiti
Ecology and habitat
In Caves.
Hooper, J.N.A. (2014). QM4866 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).
