External characters
bulbous with fistules; base spreading over substrate; fistules blind, thin, erect.
Colour
brown with black areas in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
Oscules | not apparent. |
Texture | compressibly, spongy, easily torn. |
Surface_Ornamentation | conulose. |
Ectosomal_Skeleton | thin, sandy crust. |
Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibres few, large; mesohyl light. |
Megascleres | nil. |
Microscleres | nil. |
Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe/M Schlacher-Hoenlinger |
Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Gambier archipelago
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope