WoRMS taxon details
Cliothosa hancocki (Topsent, 1888)
134147 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:134147)
accepted
Species
Thoosa hancocci Topsent, 1888 · unaccepted (genus transfer and spelling correction)
Thoosa hancocki Topsent, 1888 · unaccepted (genus transfer)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Thoosa hancocci Topsent, 1888) Topsent, E. (1888). Contribution à l'étude des Clionides. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> supplement 2 (5 bis) mém IV: 1-165, pls I-VII.
page(s): 81-82 [details]
page(s): 81-82 [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2026). World Porifera Database. Cliothosa hancocki (Topsent, 1888). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=134147 on 2026-09-09
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Thoosa hancocki Topsent, 1888) Topsent, E. (1888). Contribution à l'étude des Clionides. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> supplement 2 (5 bis) mém IV: 1-165, pls I-VII. [details]
original description (of Thoosa hancocci Topsent, 1888) Topsent, E. (1888). Contribution à l'étude des Clionides. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> supplement 2 (5 bis) mém IV: 1-165, pls I-VII.
page(s): 81-82 [details]
new combination reference Topsent, E. (1920). Caractères et Affinités des <i>Thoosa</i> Hanc. et des <i>Alectona</i> Cart. Considérations sur leurs germes à armures. <em>Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 45(1-2): 88-97.
page(s): 89 [details]
original description (of Thoosa hancocci Topsent, 1888) Topsent, E. (1888). Contribution à l'étude des Clionides. <em>Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale.</em> supplement 2 (5 bis) mém IV: 1-165, pls I-VII.
page(s): 81-82 [details]
new combination reference Topsent, E. (1920). Caractères et Affinités des <i>Thoosa</i> Hanc. et des <i>Alectona</i> Cart. Considérations sur leurs germes à armures. <em>Bulletin de la Société zoologique de France.</em> 45(1-2): 88-97.
page(s): 89 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
page(s): 179-180 [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Rützler, K. (2002). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_19
page(s): 179-180 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 179-180 [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy Rützler, K. (2002). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. <em>In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes.</em> Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York, 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version). (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_19
page(s): 179-180 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Ben Mustapha, K; Zarrouk, S.; Souissi, A.; El Abed, A. (2003). Diversité des Démosponges Tunisiennes. <em>Bulletin Institut national des Sciences et Technologies de la mer de Salammbô.</em> 30, 55-78.
page(s): 66 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Desqueyroux, R. (1976). Démosponges signalées pour la Région des Canaux du Chili. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 17 (1): 93-109.
page(s): 96-97; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Lévi, C. (1965). Spongiaires récoltés par l'expédition israélienne dans le sud de la Mer Rouge en 1962. <i>In</i>: Israel South Red Sea Expedition, 1962, Report 13. <em>Sea Fisheries Research Station Haifa Bulletin.</em> 39, 3-27.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 503 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1993). A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. <em>Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria".</em> 89: 247-350.
page(s): 272; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Rützler, K. (1965). Systematik und Ökologie der Poriferen aus Litoral-Schattengebieten der Nordadria. <em>Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere.</em> 55(1): 1-82., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00409339
page(s): 24-25; note: Misapplication for Cliothosa ramosa. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Saritas, M.Ü. (1972). A preliminary study on the silicious Sponge (Porifera) Fauna of Engeceli Limani in the Gulf of Izmir (Aegean Sea). <em>Scientific reports of the Faculty of Science, Ege University.</em> 143, 1-25 (in Turkish).
page(s): 12; pl II fig 2, fig 6; note: Misapplication. [details]
additional source Scalera-Liaci, L.; Sciscioli, M.; Fiordiponti, F. (1976). Distribuzione dei Poriferi del mar Piccolo di Taronto. <em>Oebalia.</em> 2, 3-19.
page(s): 18; note: Misapplication. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Schönberg, C.H.L. (2000). Bioeroding sponges common to the Central Great Barrier Reef: descriptions of three new species, two new records, and additions to two previously described species. <em>Senckenbergiana maritima.</em> 30(3-6): 161-221. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03042965 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Schönberg, C.H.L.; Calcinai, B.; Chaves-Fonnegra. A.; Li, Y.H.: Zea, S. (2026). New taxonomic concepts for bioeroding sponges—the genus <i>Cliothosa</i> (Porifera: Clionaidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 207(3): zlaf027., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/207/3/zlaf027/8739483?redirectedFrom=fulltext
page(s): 27-28 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Topsent, E. (1934). Etude d'Eponges littorales du Golfe de Gabès. <em>Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche de Castiglione.</em> 1932(2):71-102.
page(s): 33 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P.; Lévi, C. (1976). Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie).</em> 49:1-116, pls I-X.
page(s): 40-41; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 66 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Desqueyroux, R. (1976). Démosponges signalées pour la Région des Canaux du Chili. <em>Cahiers de Biologie Marine.</em> 17 (1): 93-109.
page(s): 96-97; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Lévi, C. (1965). Spongiaires récoltés par l'expédition israélienne dans le sud de la Mer Rouge en 1962. <i>In</i>: Israel South Red Sea Expedition, 1962, Report 13. <em>Sea Fisheries Research Station Haifa Bulletin.</em> 39, 3-27.
page(s): 13 [details]
additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1983). A collection of Mediterranean Demospongiae (Porifera) with, in appendix, a list of the Demospongiae hitherto recorded from the Mediterranean Sea. <em>Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria.</em> 84: 445-621.
page(s): 503 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Pulitzer-Finali, G. (1993). A collection of marine sponges from East Africa. <em>Annales Museo Civico Storia Naturale "Giacomo Doria".</em> 89: 247-350.
page(s): 272; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Rützler, K. (1965). Systematik und Ökologie der Poriferen aus Litoral-Schattengebieten der Nordadria. <em>Zeitschrift für Morphologie und Ökologie der Tiere.</em> 55(1): 1-82., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00409339
page(s): 24-25; note: Misapplication for Cliothosa ramosa. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Saritas, M.Ü. (1972). A preliminary study on the silicious Sponge (Porifera) Fauna of Engeceli Limani in the Gulf of Izmir (Aegean Sea). <em>Scientific reports of the Faculty of Science, Ege University.</em> 143, 1-25 (in Turkish).
page(s): 12; pl II fig 2, fig 6; note: Misapplication. [details]
additional source Scalera-Liaci, L.; Sciscioli, M.; Fiordiponti, F. (1976). Distribuzione dei Poriferi del mar Piccolo di Taronto. <em>Oebalia.</em> 2, 3-19.
page(s): 18; note: Misapplication. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Schönberg, C.H.L. (2000). Bioeroding sponges common to the Central Great Barrier Reef: descriptions of three new species, two new records, and additions to two previously described species. <em>Senckenbergiana maritima.</em> 30(3-6): 161-221. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03042965 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Schönberg, C.H.L.; Calcinai, B.; Chaves-Fonnegra. A.; Li, Y.H.: Zea, S. (2026). New taxonomic concepts for bioeroding sponges—the genus <i>Cliothosa</i> (Porifera: Clionaidae). <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> 207(3): zlaf027., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-abstract/207/3/zlaf027/8739483?redirectedFrom=fulltext
page(s): 27-28 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Topsent, E. (1934). Etude d'Eponges littorales du Golfe de Gabès. <em>Bulletin de la Station d'Aquiculture et de Pêche de Castiglione.</em> 1932(2):71-102.
page(s): 33 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P.; Lévi, C. (1976). Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie).</em> 49:1-116, pls I-X.
page(s): 40-41; note: Misapplication [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Van Soest, R.W.M. (2001). Porifera, <b><i>in</i></b>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification</i>. <em>Collection Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 85-103. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unknown type (of Thoosa hancocki Topsent, 1888) MNHN DT 2559 [details]
From regional or thematic species database
Specimen M.R.A.C. no 514 B [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Thoosa hancocki Topsent, 1888)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cliothosa hancocki)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Thoosa hancocci Topsent, 1888)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cliothosa hancocki)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cliothosa hancocki)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) (from synonym Thoosa hancocci Topsent, 1888)
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cliothosa hancocki)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection (2 records)
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