External characters
massive, thickly encrusting, ramose, laminar, sheet-forming, incorporates detritus.
Colour
exterior dark cream to white in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | many, small, widely scattered, <1 mm (d). |
| Texture | soft, tears easily, compressible, resilient. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | even, smooth, matte, sandpapery. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | fine layer of detritus overlaying a criss-cross palisade of fine oxeas. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | reticulate; plumose reticulation of oxeas. |
| Megascleres | oxeas: 3 classes of oxeas class 1: fine, rounded tips, tapered, pointed, 350 × 4–5 μm; class 2: thick, rounded tips, slightly bent, 400 × 8 μm; class 3: thick, rounded tips, straight, 750 × 10 μm. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society and Tuamotu archipelagos
Ecology and habitat
In Society islands: on the outer reef slope; in Tuamotu islands: in the lagoon, on pinacles
