External characters
partially burrowing; papillae anastomose above sand; papillae contract, resemble hard balls arranged in clumps in ethanol.
Colour
bright orange in life; uniformly grey in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | thin, raised in life; collapse in ethanol. |
| Texture | brittle, harsh, easily broken. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | large sand grains visible on surface; papillae with convoluted surface patterns. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | armoured. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; all fibres cored with large sand grains and foreign material; spiculose skeleton present; tylostyles form mulitspicular, whispy tracts. |
| Megascleres | styles: with swollen heads, similar to tylostyles. |
| Microscleres | sigmas: c-shaped, rare, very small. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM3730 Phoriospongia sp. (OTU QM3730) . 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).
