External characters
thickly encrusting, collapses in ethanol.
Colour
red in life; beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | medium-sized, scattered over surface, not visible in ethanol. |
| Texture | soft, easily peeled from substrate. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | no distinctive ornamentation in ethanol. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | bouquets of tylostyles project through collagenous layer; diplasters form thin, but dense, consistent crust at surface. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | plumose tracts of tylostyles, diplasters scattered throughout; diplasters in higher concentrations basally, forming distinct layer. |
| Megascleres | tylostyles. |
| Microscleres | diplasters. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas archipelago
Ecology and habitat
On rocky cliff.
P Sutcliffe (2012). QM1362 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).
