External characters
Long cylindrical tangled branches, tapering to sharp points.
Colour
Yellow/peach.
Skeletal Characters
| Texture | Elastic. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Hispid -produced by spicule -cored spongin projecting through to ectosome. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | Regular reticulate mesh of spongin fibres, cored by paucispicular tracts of oxeas, few free spicules. |
| Megascleres | Oxeas (120 – 150µm). |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Pacific Ocean: Australia, Papua New Guinea
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
QM2641 Amphimedon sp. (OTU QM2641) . 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).
