External characters
massive.
Colour
beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
Oscules | small, barely visible, scarce. |
Texture | firm, barely compressible, tough. |
Surface_Ornamentation | uneven, spiny, fibrous. |
Ectosomal_Skeleton | very thin arenaceous layer. |
Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; confused reticulation dominated by secondary fibres; secondary fibres clear; mesohyl light, even. |
Megascleres | nil. |
Microscleres | nil. |
Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society archipelago.
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on hard substrate.
Queensland Museum (2014). QM4176 Coscinoderma sp. (OTU QM4176) . 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).