External characters
very thinly encrusting on coral and/or rocky substrate.
Colour
white to red-orange in life; exterior deep maroon in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | few, sparse, between low conules, irregular, 2–7 mm (d). |
| Texture | smooth, soft, tears, compressible, not resilient. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | rugose, loosely conulose, shiny between conules, glabrous; conules ~1 mm (h), spaced ~4–12 mm apart. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | not conspicuously distinguished from choanosome; conules raised by large fibres which protrude though ectosome. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; fibres sparse, very large, laminated, irregular in width along length, 70–300 μm, very lightly cored with occasional foreign spicule; mesohyl collagenous, incorporates very little detritus (occasional algae, rare sand grain or spicule), heavily pigmented; pigment in granules. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society and Austral archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
Outer and inner reef slope. Inner rim of the pass.
QM4755 Pseudoceratina sp. (OTU QM4755) . 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).
