External characters
irregularly digitate lobate branching with many tendril-like sub-branches forming a nearly tangled branching mass
Colour
dark red on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | oscules large and on the apex of low conules, prominently raised above the surface |
| Texture | rubbery, soft |
| Surface_Ornamentation | macroscopically lumpy, microscopically smooth |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosomal skeleton with protruding sparse brushes or single oxeas projecting from erect terminal fibres, and with tangential oxeas in terminal fibres parallel to the surface |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | skeleton a well developed reticulation of spongin fibres; ; choanosomal fibres with pooly differentiated ascending primary and transverse connecting fibres cored by 2 or few versus 1 oxea abreast, respectively; poor collagen in mesohyl |
| Megascleres | Oxeas |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4858 Haliclona sp (OTU QM4858) . 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).
