External characters
thickly flabellate with digitate or lobate margins
Colour
pink to red on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | small oscules on proximal surface, slightly raised above the surface |
| Texture | harsh, compressible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | surface minutely conulose and hispid |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosomal skeleton with one or more protruding long thicker styles |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | protruding long thicker styles embedded in light collagen and with their bases embedded in a paratangential subectomal skeleton, mesohyl with poor collagen |
| Megascleres | includes long thin styles and long thin sinuous or contort strongyles |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
On the outer reef slope.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4859 Phakellia sp (OTU QM4859) . 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).
