External characters
very thinly encrusting.
Colour
red in life; cream in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | not visible. |
| Texture | no observations. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | no observations. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | thick crust of diplasters at surface, set in darkly pigmented layer with echinating palisade of tylostyles. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | plumose arrangement of tylostyles with diplasters scattered throughout choanosome. |
| Megascleres | tylostyles. |
| Microscleres | diplasters. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas archipelago
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope.
Hooper, J.N.A. (2014). QM4333 Diplastrella sp. 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).
