External characters
low rounded bulbous lumps fused and forming a tubular growth form that is encrusting on coral rubble
Colour
pale beige alive, darker brown on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | each bulb with a small terminal oscule, not raised above the surface |
| Texture | harsh, compressible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | surface smooth and even |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosomal skeleton membranous, with uncored secondary spongin fibres tangential to the surface and occasional primary spongin fibres with none, uni- or paucispicular tracts ascending to and slightly protruding through surface as small microconules |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosomal skeleton composed of thicker primary fibres and thinner secondary fibres either with or without unispicular tracts, together forming irregular oval to rectangular, elongate or triangular meshes, relatively cavernous, and with well developed collagen fibres, and very light collagen mesohyl |
| Megascleres | megascleres vestigial very thin, short to medium length ranging from oxeas to strongyloxeas, restricted to within fibres |
| Microscleres | microscleres 2 size classes of c-sigmas |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society islands
Ecology and habitat
In caves
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4871 Haliclona sp. (OTU QM4871) . 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).
