External characters
massive, highly lacunose, fistular.
Colour
mottled beige, ranging to red/orange places, most likely due to surface sedimentation, in life; beige, with beige membranous surface extending between cavernous sections, large yellow fibres frequent and highly visible, in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | terminal on fistules. |
| Texture | compressible, cavernous, harsh, easily torn. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | membranous, highly cavernous. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | unarmoured, with thin, consistent layer of pigmented collagen. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | fibrous; thick, primary tracts extend to tips of conules; primary fibres thick, lightly cored near the surface, fasciculate; high degree of fasciculation where secondary fibres branch from primary fibres; secondary fibres clear, regular, branching; all fibres form dense reticulation; light, patchy collagen throughout. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | P Sutcliffe |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Marquesas archipelago and Mehetia (Society archipelago).
Ecology and habitat
On the rocky slope of the island.
P. Sutcliffe (2012). QM4703 Fasciospongia 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).
