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Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Kennedy, J.A. (2000). A new Clathria (Porifera: Demospongiae: Microcionidae) from the Western Indian Ocean. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum. 42 (2): 427-444.
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Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Kennedy, J.A.
2000
A new <i>Clathria</i> (Porifera: Demospongiae: Microcionidae) from the Western Indian Ocean.
Memoirs of the Queensland Museum
42 (2): 427-444.
Publication
A new species of microcionid marine sponge Clathria (Microciona) richmondi sp. nov. is described from Zanzibar, Tanzania, and is highly unusual in having extremely large accolada toxas that form dragmata and skeletal tracts within the choanosomal and ectosomal skeletons, rudimentary spination on echinating acanthostyles, a live blue colouration and a prominent sub-surface aquiferous system with radiate arrangement around oscules. The new species is compared with the other 64 species of Clathria described from the Western Indian Ocean, Southeast Africa and Arabian Gulf-Red Sea provinces, and other species known to have toxodragmata.
Indian Ocean, Western
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Clathria (Axosuberites) fauroti (Topsent, 1893) (additional source)
Clathria (Clathria) arbuscula (Row, 1911) (additional source)
Clathria (Clathria) conica Lévi, 1963 (additional source)
Clathria (Clathria) dayi Lévi, 1963 (additional source)
Clathria (Clathria) foliascens Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971 (additional source)
Clathria (Clathria) inhacensis Thomas, 1979 (additional source)
Clathria (Clathria) oculata Burton, 1933 (additional source)
Clathria (Microciona) affinis (Carter, 1880) (additional source)
Clathria (Microciona) anonyma (Burton, 1959) (additional source)
Clathria (Microciona) atrasanguinea (Bowerbank, 1862) (additional source)
Clathria (Microciona) densa (Burton, 1959) (additional source)
Clathria (Microciona) richmondi Hooper, Kelly & Kennedy, 2000 (original description)
Clathria (Microciona) stephensae Hooper, 1996 (additional source)
Clathria (Thalysias) amirantiensis Hooper, 1996 (additional source)
Clathria (Thalysias) anomala (Burton, 1933) (additional source)
Clathria (Thalysias) cullingworthi Burton, 1931 (additional source)
Clathria (Thalysias) lambda (Lévi, 1958) (additional source)
Clathria (Thalysias) longitoxa (Hentschel, 1912) (additional source)
Clathria (Thalysias) oxitoxa Lévi, 1963 (additional source)
Clathria (Wilsonella) cercidochela (Vacelet & Vasseur, 1971) (additional source)
Clathria aculeata Ridley, 1884 accepted as Clathria (Thalysias) abietina (Lamarck, 1814) (additional source)
Clathria lendenfeldi Ridley & Dendy, 1886 represented as Clathria (Thalysias) lendenfeldi Ridley & Dendy, 1886 (additional source)
Clathria lobata Vosmaer, 1880 represented as Clathria (Clathria) lobata Vosmaer, 1880 (additional source)
Clathria mixta Hentschel, 1912 represented as Clathria (Wilsonella) mixta Hentschel, 1912 (additional source)
Clathria rhaphidotoxa Stephens, 1915 represented as Clathria (Clathria) rhaphidotoxa Stephens, 1915 (additional source)
Clathria spongodes Dendy, 1922 represented as Clathria (Clathria) spongodes Dendy, 1922 (additional source)
Clathria transiens Hallmann, 1912 represented as Clathria (Clathria) transiens Hallmann, 1912 (additional source)
Clathria vacelettia Hooper, 1996 represented as Clathria (Microciona) vacelettia Hooper, 1996 (additional source)
Clathria zoanthifera Lévi, 1963 represented as Clathria (Clathria) zoanthifera Lévi, 1963 (additional source)
Andaman Sea for Clathria (Microciona) atrasanguinea (Bowerbank, 1862)  (inaccurate)
Australian Exclusive Economic Zone for Clathria (Thalysias) fusterna Hooper, 1996 
East African Coral Coast for Clathria (Microciona) richmondi Hooper, Kelly & Kennedy, 2000 
Gulf of Mannar for Clathria (Microciona) atrasanguinea (Bowerbank, 1862)  (inaccurate)
Seychellois Exclusive Economic Zone for Clathria (Microciona) atrasanguinea (Bowerbank, 1862)  (inaccurate)
Holotype QM G306785, geounit East African Coral Coast, identified as Clathria (Microciona) richmondi Hooper, Kelly & Kennedy, 2000