WoRMS taxon details
Cliona caribbaea Carter, 1882
AphiaID: 170432
AphiaID: 170432
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Porifera (Phylum) > Demospongiae (Class) > Hadromerida (Order) > Clionaidae (Family) > Cliona (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Cliona Grant, 1826 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cliona langae Pang, 1973 (junior synonym) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Carter, H.J. 1882a. Some Sponges from the West Indies and Acapulco in the Liverpool Free Museum described, with general and classificatory Remarks. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 9(52): 266-301,346-368, pls XI-XII. [details] [full text]
basis of record: Rützler, K. 1974. The Burrowing Sponges of Bermuda. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology (165): 1-32. [details] [full text] additional source: Rützler, K., R. W. M. van Soest, and C. Piantoni. 2009. Sponges (Porifera) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 285–313 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Schönberg, C.H.L. 2002. Sponges of the 'Cliona viridis complex' - a key for species identification. Proceedings of the 9th International Coral Reef Symposium, Bali 1: 295-300. [details] additional source: Laubenfels, M.W. De 1936a. A Discussion of the Sponge Fauna of the Dry Tortugas in Particular and the West Indies in General, with Material for a Revision of the Families and Orders of the Porifera. Carnegie Institute of Washington (Tortugas Laboratory Paper N° 467) 30: 1-225, pls 1-22. [details] from synonym: Pang, R.K. 1973a. The systematics of some Jamaican excavating sponges (Porifera). Postilla 161: 1-75. [details] [view taxon] [full text] from synonym: Zea, S.; Weil, E. 2003. Taxonomy of the Caribbean excavating sponge species complex Cliona caribbaea C-aprica C-langae (Porifera, Hadromerida, Clionaidae). Caribbean Journal of Science 39 (3): 348-370. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | ||||||||||
| Fossil range | recent only | ||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Greater Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Belize [details] Bermuda [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Eastern Caribbean [details] Floridian [details] Greater Antilles [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Jamaica (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Jamaican Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Northern Gulf of Mexico [details] Panama [details] Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Southern Caribbean [details] Southwestern Caribbean [details] Venezuela [details] Western Caribbean [details] | ||||||||||
| Specimen | Holotype: LIV CM 2177, locality Eastern Caribbean (St. Vincent) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (9 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To The Sponge Guide To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Type locality: St.Vincent [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:170432 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: van Soest, R. (2013). Cliona caribbaea Carter, 1882. In: Van Soest, R.W.M; Boury-Esnault, N.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Rützler, K.; de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez de Glasby, B.; Hajdu, E.; Pisera, A.B.; Manconi, R.; Schoenberg, C.; Janussen, D.; Tabachnick, K.R., Klautau, M.; Picton, B.; Kelly, M.; Vacelet, J.; Dohrmann, M.; Cristina Díaz, M. (2013) World Porifera database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=170432 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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