External characters
Encrusting bulbous, stoloniferous.
Colour
Beige/brown.
Skeletal Characters
Oscules | At tip of stolons or fistule-like projections. |
Texture | Soft, compressible. |
Surface_Ornamentation | Porous. |
Ectosomal_Skeleton | Very slightly hispid, some primary fibres. |
Choanosomal_Skeleton | Light reticular, regular spongin network sparsely cored by one, and sometimes a couple of spicules. |
Megascleres | Oxeas 70 – 80um. |
Microscleres | nil. |
Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Pacific Ocean: Australia, Vanuatu
Ecology and habitat
Outer rim of the pass. Outer reef slope.
QM2555 Haliclona (Reniera) sp. (OTU QM2555) . 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).