External characters
Spherical, bulbous.
Colour
Yellow alive; greyish beige ectosome with beige choanosome in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | Single, large apical, scattered on lateral sides of bulbs with slightly raised lip. |
| Texture | Firm, barely compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | Even, opaque, hispid. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Membranous, with choanosomal oxeas protruding through surface by approximately half their length. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | Confused reticulation of paucispicular tracts of oxeas. Choanosome is minutely cavernous. Mesohyl collagen is moderately dense and lightly vacuolose. |
| Megascleres | Oxeas |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
In Pacific ocean: Japan, Palau, Hawaï
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinacles
J Hooper (2014). QM2011 Axinyssa aculeata Wilson, 1925. 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).
