External characters
irregularly digitate-lobate, club-like lobate branches
Colour
red alive
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | many large oscules scattered over the surface flush with surface |
| Texture | firm, flexible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | macroscopically lumpy, microscopically smooth |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosome with protruding single oxeas and single tangential oxeas |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosome regularly isodictyal reticulate fibre skeleton forming rectangular or oval meshes and with multispicular ascending tracts and unispicular or paucispicular transverse tracts, very light collagen in mesohyl |
| Megascleres | hastate oxeas or strongyloxeas, with younger forms fusiform |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles. Outer rim of the pass. Franging reef. Outer reef slope.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4857 Haliclona sp (OTU QM4857) . 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).
