External characters
Digitate thin fan with short holdfast, or thickly encrusting plate connected directly to substrate
Colour
Orange alive, pale or light brown preserved
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | not observed |
| Texture | firm, harsh, flexible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | Macroscopically even, microscopically conulose surface. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | plumose styles protruding through surface singly or in bundles |
| Megascleres | Oxeas long flexuous, strongyles (~770 x 7 um and 950 x 3 um), some styles (310 x 7 um) and asymmetrical oxeas (340 x 12 um). |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Pacific ocean : Australia, Papua New Guinea
Indian ocean: Western Australia
Ecology and habitat
Inner reef pass, on pinnacles.
J Hooper (2014). QM0107 Phakellia carduus (Lamarck, 1814). 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).
