External characters
globular, not stalked.
Colour
yellow in life; beige to white in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | no procalices present |
| Texture | firm, incompressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth surface, conulose; conules high, tips extend into elongated tracts of spicules extending approximately 3 cm from surface. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | distinct from choanosome; smaller, specialised oxeas at surface; no cortical region observed in sections of QM G331102. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | radial; large bundles of oxeas form dense radial tracts; long, thin protriaenes, large anatriaenes also present. |
| Megascleres | oxeas: 2 size classes; anatriaenes: 2 size classes; protriaenes. |
| Microscleres | sigmaspires. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas archipelago is.
Ecology and habitat
Sand plain with halimeda sp.
P Sutcliffe (2014). QM3744 Craniella abracadabra de Laubenfels, 1954. 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).
