External characters
thickly encrusting, ~ 5 cm thick.
Colour
orange in life; beige in ethanol, with hints of orange colour remaining; stains ethanol light yellow.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | lipped in life, fine, apical to small mounds; not obvious in preserved specimen, but when sponge is compressed, fixative comes out in fine stream at pressure. |
| Texture | soft, dense, compressible, able to be torn. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | fine, undulating conules visible in preserved specimen; appears as though the sponge has contracted into dense clump in ethanol. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | light, collagenous, occasional spicule inclusions; no distinct layer. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | styles in wavy tracts; mesohyl uniform; free spicules present. |
| Megascleres | styles. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM1599 Phoriospongia sp. (OTU QM1599) . 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).
