External characters
Thinly encrusting, probably excavating surface of coral substratum
Colour
orange alive, reddish or red-orange on deck
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | few, large flaccid, raised on membraneous bulbs |
| Texture | velvety, soft, slimy to touch |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | thick crust of spirasters and denser collagen in ectosomal skeleton, with tylostyles barely protruding through surface |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | choanosome with moderate collagen, abundant spirasters and brushes of tylostyles running in longitudinal tracts within choanosome, and paratangentially near periphery, supporting the ectosomal sksleton |
| Megascleres | long thin tylostyles with slightly swollen tyle which is predominantly terminal |
| Microscleres | spirasters of two sizes and morphologies, the larger with large spines forming a capital E-shaped, the smaller with small spines and shaft double S-shaped |
| 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. (2014). QM4844 Spheciospongia potamophera 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).