Morphological description (show/hide)
| Attached to substrate, semi-bulbous digits, distinct skin. | | Orange/red in life, pale orange in alcohol. ( | | Few, conspicuous, scattered. | | Very soft, spongy, compressible, mucus(?) | | membranous, appears hispid. Honeycomb visible beneath. | | Undifferented from ectosome. Regular reticulation of megasclere bundles, slightly disorganised appearance. Light, mesohyl collagen associatded with spicule bundles, in which are scattered microscleres. Large subdermal cavities. | | Thin collagenous layer (pigmented red/orange) with scattered micorscleres. Long spicule tracts, semi-reticulate, (tylotes, sigmas and chelae). | | Oxeas (thick and thin). Tylotes (less common). | | Isochelae (palmate anchorate), Sigmas, Raphids/microxeas. |
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