Marine sponges are the most primitive multicelled organisms. The unique ability of these organisms to adapt to any ecosystem may be due to biochemical factors, in particular, the structural features of their membranes. It is known that the main components of sponge membranes, phospholipids, consist of fatty acids (FA) of the usual length (16-22 C atoms) in addition to a large amount of unusual FA of longer chain length [1,2]. These were identified using modern research methods. They include brominated FA [3][4][5], unsaturated FA with double bonds in unusual positions [6], branched FA [7], and acids with unusual substituents such as cyclopropane [8], methoxyl [9], acetoxyl [10], and others in the C chain. It was also shown that many unusual FA isolated from sponges have biological activity [11][12][13].We investigated for the first time the FA composition of the marine sponge Tedania dirhaphis from the Sea of Okhotsk. Using modern GC-MS methods we identified new saturated and monoenoic acids that had not been previously observed in other sponges: 16-Me-19:0, 10,14-Me 2 -15:1(∆6), 18:1(∆6), 18:1(∆8), 22:1(∆16). Information on the FA composition of sponges broadens our understanding of the diversity of biological molecules.According to GC, the FA mixture of total lipids from T. dirhaphis contained more than 70 components, 50 of which (98.4%) were identified ( Table 1).The saturated FA made up 8.3% of the total FA from T. dirhaphis; total saturated branched FA, 3.2%. The principal saturated acids were 16:0, 18:0, and 16-Me-19:0. The last has not been observed previously in other sponges.The pyrrolidide of 16-Me-19:0 has a molecular ion [M] + with m/z 365 but differs in chromatographic mobility and peak intensities of characteristic ions from the pyrrolidide of linear 20:0 acid. It is known that the intensity of the peak characterizing the branching position is minimal whereas those of the neighboring peaks increase, i.e., a gap of 28 amu forms, if branching is present [14]. In the spectrum of the pyrrolidide of 16-Me-19:0, the intensity of the peak with m/z 308 (0.0%) is less whereas those of the neighboring peaks with m/z 294 (1.1%) and 322 (1.5%) are greater than those of the pyrrolidide of 20:0. This indicates that the methyl group is located on the 16th C atom.Other saturated FA with branched C chains that were present included i/ai, 15:0; i, 16:0, and i/ai 17:0; i/ai 19:0; i/ai 21:0, which have been observed previously in sponges and other organisms [15][16][17]. Such acids are usually considered to originate from bacteria [18,19]. Saturated FA with one branching in the middle of the chain, for example, 10-Me-16:0, 10-Me-18:0, 11-Me-18:0, and 13-Me-20:0 were previously found in other sponges [20][21][22][23]. We assume that such acids are synthesized by bacteria associated with the sponges and are very characteristic just for demosponges bacterial symbionts [24,25].The total monoenoic FA made up 13.1% of the total FA from T. dirhaphis. The principal ones were 16:1