Description: Tubular, perhaps even bell shaped; with thin hard flexible stalk and terminal oscules. May have a single tube or several branches of the main stalk, or the body of sponge may branch; the branches may anastomose, and may be slightly flattened. Body to ca. 15cm long, with stalk typically less than half of the body length, proportionally more in smaller specimens. Beige, ?yellow? Soft, flexible. Oscules are large, terminal.

Habitat: On rock, wreck, shell fragments etc. Found both in areas exposed to tide, and those with little water movement. Characteristic of vertical rock faces, but also can be found on more gently sloping surfaces.

Distribution: Known recently from Rathlin Is; Skye; Tiree; W. coast of Scotland (Garvellachs, Easdale, L. Melfort,L. Fyne, L. Long, Clyde); Lundy; Skomer.

Distribution Map from NBN: Haliclona urceolus at National Biodiversity Network mapping facility, data for UK.

iNaturalist: Haliclona urceolus at iNaturalist World Species Observations database.