External characters
cylindrical tubes, "hot dog sponge".
Colour
pink-orange in life; dark purple in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | on upper surface; terminal on raised "bumps". |
| Texture | very firm, tough, rubbery, difficult to tear. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | conule-like bumps (tubercules) irregularly over surface, smooth, membranous, opaque. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous, very densly pigmented, collagenous; some detritic inclusions evident throughout subectosome, especially at base; mesohyl collagen slightly granular, distinct from choanosome. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibres widely spaced fibres, dendritic, with pith, only occasionally branch; mesohyl quite dense, homogeneous, some detritus incorporated. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu archipelago is.
Pacific Ocean: Fiji.
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles. Outer rim of the pass.
QM2081 Pseudoceratina sp. (OTU QM2081) . 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).
