External characters
irregular, digitiform, loose fingers, ramose.
Colour
exterior deep maroon in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | large, on apices of digits, few, circular, ~3 mm (d). |
| Texture | tough, tearable, rubbery, compressible, resilient. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | conulose, fibres protrude beyond conules, shiny and smooth between conules. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | distinguished from choanosome; conules raised by fibres which protrude though ectosome; ectosome heavily pigmented. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; reticulation of primary and secondary fibres; primaries not differentiated from secondaries; fibres clear, lightly laminated, not dense; mesohyl incorporates foreign spicule debris and small sand grains, little pigment; pigment in granules. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | Kathryn Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society archipelago
Ecology and habitat
Bottom of the pass
Kathryn Hall (2012). QM4760 Smenospongia 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).
