External characters
encrusting, 1–2 mm thick, slightly foliose-lobate.
Colour
grey-blue in life; chocolate brown exterior, beige fibres protruding through surface in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | not visible. |
| Texture | very soft, compressible, floppy, fibrous, mucusy. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | regularly conulose, small conules interconnected by ridges. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous, pushed up into conules by chonosomal fibres. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; irregular reticulation of fibres; fibres partially cored by detritus and foreign spicule material; mesohyl collagen dark, obscures fibres. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society, Tuamotu, Australes islands
Ecology and habitat
Outer rim of the pass, outer reef slope, encrusted in the sediment or coral sand.
P. Sutcliffe (2009). QM2669 Dysidea sp. 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).
