External characters
lobate, bulbous; on branching base.
Colour
brown, encrusted in life; interior pale, exterior light green or brown-olive (due to algae) in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | small, on swollen bulbs, scattered. |
| Texture | firm, breaks easily. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth, slightly bulbous. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | irregular brushes of oxeas, almost in 3-dimensional reticulation. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | tight myxillid-like renieroid reticulation of oxeas; oxeas singly and in multispicular tracts. |
| Megascleres | oxeas: stepped ends, 130 × 8 μm. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | Queensland Museum |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society and Tuamotu islands
Pacific Ocean: Australia, Papua New Guinea
Indian Ocean: Malaysia
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope
Queensland Museum (2014). QM0854 Haliclona (Haliclona) sp. (OTU QM0854) . 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).
