External characters
encrusting.
Colour
pink in life; beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | terminal to knobbled swellings; not apparent in ethanol. |
| Texture | soft, easily torn. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth; ectosomal crust distinct, but not easily peeled away from choanosome. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | thick crust of paratangential tylotes in dense mass; microscleres scattered throughout, disorganised. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | strongyles arranged in loose, wavy primary tracts; strongyles not well-differentiated from ectosomal tylotes; choanosome highly spiculose, consistent, light mesohyl. |
| Megascleres | strongyles; tylotes. |
| Microscleres | chelae: isochelae, palmate. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas islands
Ecology and habitat
On rocky slope.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM4683 Coelosphaera (Coelosphaera) sp. (OTU QM4683) . 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).
