External characters
Stoloniferous, spreadsing over substrate, thin cylindrical branches, stringy.
Colour
Dark brown.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | Fairly large oscules. |
| Texture | Slimy. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | Finely conulose, even surface, membranous. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Irregular, tangential. Some pigment cells on the outer membrane. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | Irregular reticulaiton of primary and secondary fibres which are indistinct. Fibres are fine, and cored with uni-to paucispicular of fine oxeas. In places, the coring spicules are sparse, some are not bound in fibres and ljay scattered in the mesohyl. Mesohyl collagen is light and homogeneous. |
| Megascleres | Oxeas (strongylote)(80um). |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Pacific ocean: Fiji
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope
QM2754 Siphonochalina sp. (OTU QM2754) . 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).
