External characters
meandering, flabellate, digitate.
Colour
bright orange in life.
Skeletal Characters
Surface_Ornamentation | prominently microconulose, similar to species of Ulosa. |
Choanosomal_Skeleton | plumose brushes of styles, oxeas or styloxeas (similar to Clathria (Clathria) biclathrata Hooper & Wiedenmayer, 1994). |
Megascleres | styles; oxeas or styloxeas: 180–260 × 6–16 μm. |
Microscleres | nil. |
Mudmap_Author | Queensland Museum |
Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society islands
In Pacific Ocean: Australia
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, in a bay, in a muddy environment.
Queensland Museum (2014). QM0353 Axinella sp. (OTU QM0353) . 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).