External characters
lobate, spherical, bulbous.
Colour
orange-red in situ; brown on deck, ectosome brown, choanosome light brown in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | several small scattered oscules (not easily visible when preserved) |
| Texture | tough compressible, difficult to tear |
| Surface_Ornamentation | opaque, membranous, with low surface conules ranging from rounded to pointed |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | heavily pigmented and embedded with sand grains and few foreign spicules; conules formed by ascending fibres |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | irregularly fasciculated (or compound) laminated fibres; occasionally fibres are cored with sand, mesohyl heavily collagenous with abundant detritus |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | J Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu islands
Ecology and habitat
On the outer reef slope.
Hooper, J.N.A. (2011). QM2071 Fascaplysinopsis 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).
