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).