External characters
Massive
Colour
COLOUR: Light purple/pink alive; Brown in EtOH
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | Large siphons from surface. |
| Texture | Firm, harsh, brittle. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | Optically smooth although partly covered by encrusting fauna. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Tangential surface layer of sanidaster like acanthose microrhabds. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | Microrhabds also scattered throughout the mesohyl. halichondrioid tract of large oxeas forming radial compact tracts. |
| Megascleres | MEGASCLERES: Oxeas |
| Microscleres | MICROSCLERES: Microrhabds (sanidaster like) |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
In Pacific Ocean: Australia
Ecology and habitat
On hard substrate, in sandy environment.
Negombo sp. (OTU QM4210) . 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).
