External characters
lobate, massive, cavernous.
Colour
white in life; beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | numerous, apical; appear as deep cavernous areas which differ in gross morphology from remainder of surface by absence of thin membranous film. |
| Texture | soft, compressible, resilient. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | translucent, membranous film connecting mostly cavernous sponge. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous; no spicule skeleton. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; dense reticulation of primary and secondary fibres; primary fibres distinctively cored with foreign spicules, ascend to tips of conules; secondary fibres laminated, uncored, form dense reticulation; some foreign detritus scattered throughout, but not heavily. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society, windward islands.
Ecology and habitat
Outer reef slope near the rim of the pass, or in the lagoon on the pinnacles.
P. Sutcliffe (2009). QM4409 Euryspongia sp. 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).
