Vaceletia crypta - Tuamotu - Raroia

Vaceletia crypta OTU QM0655

Dictyoceratida Verticillitidae

External characters

growing on stalk <3cm (l), head round <1 cm (d).

Colour

grey on deck.

Skeletal Characters

Oscules single, apical exhalent pore.
Texture no observations.
Surface_Ornamentation no observations.
Ectosomal_Skeleton ‘spinctozoan’ grade of construction; solid aragonitic cortex, series of chambers on top of each other; lack free spicules.
Choanosomal_Skeleton none.
Megascleres nil.
Microscleres nil.
Mudmap_Editor K Hall

Ecology and habitat

Outer reef slope, near the pass

Distribution

In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands

Queensland Museum (2008). QM0655 Vaceletia crypta 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).