External characters
delicate tubular lobate growth form
Colour
pastel tangernine orange alive, khaki brown on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | moderately large oscules with raised transparent membranous lips and aquiferous system visible on the external surfacs of the sponge |
| Texture | soft, compressible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth even surface except for external aquiferous system |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | undifferentiated from choanosomal skeleton |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | ectosomal and choanosomal sksletons an isodictyal reticulation of uni- or occasionally bispicular triangular meshes without any differentiation between the surace and axial regions; spongin fibres barely visible and collagen moderately light with few interstitial spicules in mesohyl |
| Megascleres | oxeas of a single size class, straight, sharply pointed, a few juvenile forms also present |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society islands
Ecology and habitat
In caves
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4873 Haliclona sp. (OTU QM4873) . 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).
