Cliona
creator: van Soest, Rob W.M.
creator: Vanden Berghe, Edward
creator: Boury-Esnault, Nicole
date: 2026-08-30
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Cliona Grant, 1826
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: 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. Cliona Grant, 1826. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=132026 on 2026-08-30
created: 2004-12-21T16:54:05Z
modified: 2020-12-16T11:32:25Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Cliona Grant, 1826
class: Demospongiae
family: Clionaidae
genus: Cliona
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Grant, R.E. (1826). Notice of a New Zoophyte (Cliona celata Gr.) from the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal. 1: 78-81.
name published in: Bowerbank, J.S. (1862). On the Anatomy and Physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III On the Generic Characters, the Specific Characters, and on the Method of Examination. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 152(2): 1087-1135, pls LXXII-LXXIV.
name published in: Bowerbank, J.S. (1864). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae.Volume 1. (Ray Society: London): i-xx, 1-290, pls I-XXXVII.
name published in: Bowerbank, J.S. (1874). A Monograph of the British Spongiadae. Volume 3. (Ray Society: London): i-xvii, 1-367, pls I-XCII.
name published in: Dickinson, M.G. (1945). Sponges of the Gulf of California. Pp. 1-55, pls1-97. In: Reports on the collections obtained by Alan Hancock Pacific Expeditions of Velero III off the coast of Mexico, Central America, South America, and Galapagos Islands in 1932, in 1933, in 1934, in 1935, in 1936, in 1937, in 1939, and 1940. The University of Southern California Press, Los Angeles.
name published in: Duchassaing de Fonbressin, P.; Michelotti, G. (1864). Spongiaires de la mer Caraibe. Natuurkundige verhandelingen van de Hollandsche maatschappij der wetenschappen te Haarlem. 21(2): 1-124, pls I-XXV.
name published in: Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII.
name published in: Nardo, G.D. 1839. Supra un nuovo genere di Spugne, le quali perforano le pietre ed i gusci marini. Annali delle Scienze del Regno Lombardo-Veneto 9: 221-226.
name published in: Rosell, D.; Uriz, M.J. (1997). Phylogenetic Relationships within the Excavating Hadromerida (Porifera), with a Systematic Revision. Cladistics. 13 (4): 349-366.
name published in: Schlegel, H. (1858). Handleiding tot de beoefening der dierkunde. Breda, Koninklijke Militaire Akademie. Volume 2: 1-628, pls 1-27.
name published in: Schmidt, O. (1862). Die Spongien des adriatischen Meeres. (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-viii, 1-88, pls 1-7.
name published in: Schmidt, O. (1868). Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres (Drittes Supplement). (Wilhelm Engelmann: Leipzig): i-iv, 1-44, pls I-V.
name published in: Topsent, E. (1918). Eponges de San Thomé. Essai sur les genres Spirastrella, Donatia et Chondrilla. Archives de Zoologie expérimentale et générale, Paris. 57(6): 535-618.
name published in: Vosmaer, G.C.J. (1885). Porifera, Parts Vll-XI. Pp. 177-368, pls XIX-XXV. In: Bronn, H.G. (Ed.), Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thier-Reichs. 1. (Leipzig & Heidelberg).
name published in year: 1826
name published in year: 1862
name published in year: 1864
name published in year: 1874
name published in year: 1945
name published in year: 1867
name published in year: 1839
name published in year: 1997
name published in year: 1858
name published in year: 1868
name published in year: 1918
name published in year: 1885
order: Clionaida
parent name usage ID: 170417
phylum: Porifera
scientific name authorship: Grant, 1826
taxon rank: Genus
taxonomic status: accepted