External characters
Lobate, massive, with short tapering fistules on the apex.
Colour
Dark brown alive; dark brown exterior with beige interior on deck; dark brown exterior with beige interior in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | Single, conspicuous, discrete, moderate size, on apices of short tapering fistules, with slightly raised membranous lip. |
| Texture | Soft, spongy, compressible. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | Opaque, membranous, optically smooth; Uneven, microconulose. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Membranous, darkly pigmented, may be pushed up into microconules by ascending choanosomal primary fibres. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | Regular reticulation of mainly secondary fibres and a reduced number of ascending primary fibres. Primary fibres are cored with sand and spicule detritus. Fibres are non-laminated and are not pithed. Mesohyl collagen is light and slightly granular. |
| Megascleres | nil. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | JNA Hooper |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tuamotu archipelago
Ecology and habitat
On the outer reef slope.
In the lagoon, on pinnacles.
Queensland Museum (2011). QM1983 Spongia 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).
