External characters
massive, lobate, subspherical.
Colour
pinkish to purple in life; beige to dark purple on deck; beige in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | several, small and medium-sized, flush with surface, may occur in linear arrangement. |
| Texture | soft, compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | translucent, membranous; uneven, pointed conulose, with distinct sand tracery (cobweb-like) on surface interconnecting adjacent conules. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | membranous, with thick, striated collagen; detritus scattered sparsely over surface. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; irregular reticulation of fibres; all fibres laminated, pithed; primary fibres widely spaced, fully cored by sand grains, connected by secondary fibres; secondary fibres fasciculate, clear of detritus; mesohyl collagen moderately light, slightly granular, stringy; sometimes primary fibres reduced and skeleton dominated by secondary fibres. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Hooper, J.N.A. (2009). QM1833 Euryspongia delicatula 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).
