Haliclona (Haliclona) sp -(4468) - Tuamotu - Fakarava

Haliclona (Haliclona) sp. (OTU QM4468) OTU QM4468

Haplosclerida Chalinidae

External characters

thickly encrusting.

Colour

purple in situ; beige in ethanol.

Skeletal Characters

Oscules terminal to small bulbs, scattered across surface.
Texture very soft, fragile, falls apart in ethanol.
Surface_Ornamentation no observations.
Ectosomal_Skeleton tangential unispicular layer of oxeas supported by unispicular isodictyal reticulation.
Choanosomal_Skeleton unispicular isodictyal reticulation.
Megascleres oxeas: 2 width classes.
Microscleres nil.
Mudmap_Author J Hooper
Mudmap_Editor K Hall

Distribution

In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands

Indian Ocean:  Malaysia

Ecology and habitat

Outer reef slope

QM4468 Haliclona (Haliclona) sp. (OTU QM4468) . 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).