External characters
bulbous; similar to Psammocinia bulbosa Bergquist, 1995.
Colour
white exterior, yellow interior (in ethanol).
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large thin fistules, partially closed terminally; similar to those of Psammocinia bulbosa Bergquist, 1995, but not as open; dark, slightly depressed. |
| Texture | firm, incompressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | uniformly lumpy, not conulose. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | very thick crust of sand. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; fibres large; abundant sand throughout; collagen filaments dense, abundant. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tahiti
Ecology and habitat
In caves.
Hooper, J.N.A. (2009). QM0704 Psammocinia 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).
