External characters
Massive lobate low encrusting on dead coral
Colour
pale beige to white ectosome, orange below surface in life
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | surface with a few large oscules with raised membranous lips and abundant elongate pore-seives that appear contractile and through which the orange choanosomal skeleton can be seen |
| Texture | firm, harsh, barely compressible |
| Surface_Ornamentation | slighly lumpy due to conules and pore-seives |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | Ectosome with a thick cortex of sand and heavily pigmented collagen |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosome cavernous, also with abundant detritus and pigment granules visible, and with few but robust bundles of tylostyles ascending to surface and protruding slightly through it |
| Megascleres | megascleres long straight thick tylostyles. |
| Microscleres | none seen |
| Mudmap_Author | JNA Hooper |
| Mudmap_Editor | K Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Tahiti
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on pinnacles
John NA Hooper (2014). QM4878 Spheciospongia 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)