External characters
thinly encrusting; encrusts over coral rubble substrate; sheet-like.
Colour
buttery lemon yellow in life, blackened by algae; very dark maroon in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | none visible in ethanol. |
| Texture | very thin, slimy, plastic, smooth, easily detached from substrate, very easily torn. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth, shiny, conulose, rubbery appearance. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | not conspicuously distinguished from choanosome; conules raised by large fibres which protrude though ectosome. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; fibres large, sparse, laminated, lightly cored with sand and foreign spicules; mesohyl heavily pigmented, incorporates large amount of detritus (mostly foreign spicules). |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society and Tuamotu archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope.
K Hall (2014). QM4728 Suberea sp. (OTU QM4728) . 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).
