External characters
tendril like cylindrical digits, slightly lumpy, arising from a common cylindrical base of tangled digits, with digits tapering towards their ends
Colour
pinkish-salmon alive with whitish oscular rims; beige on deck and in ethanol
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | very small, on lateral sides of digits |
| Texture | compressible, soft |
| Surface_Ornamentation | even, unornamented |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | paucispicular tangential layer of oxeas, with some primary ascending tracts protruding through the surface, and with some darker collagen in the ectosomal skeleton |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | semi-regular reticulation of multispicular ascending tracts and uni- or paucispicular transverse connecting tracts of oxeas, forming more-or-less rectangular meshes; moderate collagen throughout mesohyl |
| Megascleres | oxeas of a single size category but with a few juvenile forms present also; sharply pointed and slightly telescoped points |
| Microscleres | nil |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society and Tuamotu islands
Pacific Ocean: Fiji
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope.
J Hooper (2014). QM4386 Haliclona sp. (OTU QM4386) . 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).
