External characters
thickly encrusting, forms small cushions.
Colour
orange in life; white in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | not apparent. |
| Texture | soft, compressible, easily torn. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | conulose; conules small, soft. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | collagenous; primary tracts penetrate layer, ascend to conules. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | thin styles in sparse, wavy (almost zigzag) multispicular primary tracts. |
| Megascleres | styles. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas and Tamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope or on rocky slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM3715 Phoriospongia sp. (OTU QM3715) . 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).
