External characters
massive, fused digits, with basal attachment; incorporates shells at base.
Colour
interior dark cream, exterior pinkish at base, fading to cream at apex in ethanol.
Skeletal Characters
| Oscules | sparse, few, small, round, ~2 mm (d), apical on digits. |
| Texture | sandpapery, tough, compressible, slowly resilient. |
| Surface_Ornamentation | smooth, rubbery, rugose, folds deep, slightly sandpapery in texture, slightly hispid. |
| Ectosomal_Skeleton | surface echinated by large oxeas; oxeas in brushes at ends of primary tracts. |
| Choanosomal_Skeleton | reticulate; vaguely plumose reticulation; oxeas arranged into vague tracts which end with brushes that echinate the surface. |
| Megascleres | oxeas: 2 classes class 1: large, thick, slightly tylote at one end; class 2: finer, smaller, ends rounded, gently tapering. |
| Microscleres | nil. |
| Mudmap_Author | K Hall |
| Mudmap_Editor | Kathryn Hall |
Distribution
In French Polynesia: Society archipelago
Ecology and habitat
In the lagoon, on the inner reef slope.
K Hall (2014). QM4762 Spongosorites sp. (OTU QM4762) . 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).
