External characters
massive.
Colour
pale orange in life; dark grey in ethanol; stains ethanol maroon.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | several, scattered, with raised lip; some at apex of chimney. |
| Texture | firm, easily compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | conulose, opaque, pigmented. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; reticulation of fibres; ascending fibres occasionally cored with debris; fibres support surface conules, sometimes protrude through surface. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; reticulation of fibres; fibres generally clear, ascending fibres occasionally cored with debris; collagen abundant. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe/M Schlacher-Hoenlinger |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: in Tahiti
Ecology and habitat
On the outer reef slope
P Sutcliffe/M Schlacher-Hoenlinger (2014). QM2883 Rhopaloeides sp. (OTU QM2883) . 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).
