External characters
massive, thickly lobate.
Colour
dark red on deck; cream and orange in ethanol
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | numerous, large, no lip, scattered over mounds. |
| Texture | slightly compressible, tearable. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | goose-flesh. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | thick, dense layer of spirasters. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | thick tracts of tylostyles anastomosing irregularly throughout; tylostyles and spirasters scattered throughout; no fibres; collagen moderate. |
| Megascleres | tylostyles: ~300 µm. |
| Microscleres | spirasters: 2 size classes, 1, thick, robust, ~30 µm, 2, thin, fine, ~20 µm. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu, Autrales archipelagos and Tahiti
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon: on pinacles, on the fringing reef
