External characters
irregular, massive or cylindrical; top removed from larger specimens.
Colour
greyish-beige or dark olive/green in life; brown exterior, light brown interior in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | several, moderately-sized, scattered over surface. |
| Texture | firm, compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | conulose, membranous between conules, or hispid; conules broad, multiple. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | scattering of foreign spicules on surface membrane; membrane penetrated by fasciculated choanosomal fibres. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; regular reticulation of primary and secondary fibres, skeleton composition dominated by secondary fibres, or skeleton as anastomosing fibre network with reduced primary fibres; primary fibres sometimes cored by spicule detritus, particularly near surface; secondary fibres clear, slightly laminated, no pith. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Ecology and habitat
On the costal slope, or on the outer reef slope.
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Australes archipelago.
Queensland Museum (2009). QM0262 Rhopaloeides odorabile 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).
