External characters
thickly bulbous, fleshy encrusting mat under overhang
Colour
red to red-orange alive, deep red on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | single large oscules raised on low bulbs with raised oscular lips |
| Texture | soft, tearable |
| Surface_Ornamentation | inflated fleshy appearance, even surface |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | ectosome with light tangential layer of tornotes forming irregular paratangential tracts but predominantly parallel to the surface, with some light detritus in places on the surface |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosome with well developed fibre skeleton with primary ascending fibres. mostly uncored, occuasionally with tornotes and what appear to be echinating microxeas in bundles (trichodragmata) or singly; secondary transverse fibres clear of any spicules, spongin fibre meshes semi-regular rectangular, triangular or oval; poor collagen in meshyl |
| Megascleres | tornotes |
| Microscleres | microxeas |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon on pinnacles, not so far the pass.
JNA Hooper (2014). QM4860 Microxina sp (OTU QM4860) . 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).
