External characters
subspherical massive
Colour
brown alive
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large oscules on upper surface with lips raised above the surface, and oscular lip more darkly pigment than surrounding surface |
| Texture | harsh |
| Surface_Ornamentation | microscopically conulose, with raised oscules prominent |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosome membraneous, with bundles or single styles protruding |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosomal skeleton halichondroid criss cross of oxeas (not dense though) and styles embedded, collagen moderate |
| Megascleres | styles and oxeas, with styles slightly larger than oxeas |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinacles
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4849 Axinyssa sp (OTU QM4849) . 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).
