External characters
bulbous elongate, tubular, thickly encrusting on rock
Colour
orange-pink alive
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large oscules with membranous raised lip |
| Texture | firm, flexible, harsh |
| Surface_Ornamentation | surface slightly uneven, pitted (ostia ?), with external aquiferous system visible |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosome with some detritus embedded under the surface and occasional brushes of spicules protruding |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosomal skeleton dendritic or plumose, with long slender tornotes only, forming branching non reticulate tracts that diverge to the surface; mesohyl lightly pigmented but abundant collagen |
| Megascleres | tornotes only |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tahiti
Ecology and habitat
Outer rim of the pass
