External characters
massive erect fans fused into a Turbinaria-like plate growth form
Colour
drab orange-brown in life, light brown on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | conules surmounted by apical oscules |
| Texture | harsh, firm |
| Surface_Ornamentation | surface smooth with occasional bumps and low conules |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosomal skeleton with a layer of mostly tangential or paratangential single oxeas, overlaying a cavernous choanosomal skeleton |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosomal skeleton more-or-less evenly reticulate with large ascending multispicular tracts interconnected by slightly smaller lateral tracts producing mostly oval or rectangular meshes; collagen moderately light with abundant single spicules interdispersed within meshes |
| Megascleres | robust but short oxeas, straight or slightly curved and a much smaller category of oxeas which are probably megascleres but could be termed microxeas |
| Microscleres | Nil |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society islands
Ecology and habitat
In caves
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4867 Cribrochalina sp. (OTU QM4867) . 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).
