Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Porifera > Class Demospongiae > Order Hadromerida > Family Clionaidae

Cliona Grant, 1826

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Papillina*	Schmidt, 1862	synonym
*Vioa*	Nardo, 1839	synonym

Children

Cliona burtoni Topsent, 1932
Cliona caledoniae van Soest & Beglinger, 2009
Cliona celata Grant, 1826
Cliona janitrix Topsent, 1932
Cliona lobata Hancock, 1849
Cliona rhodensis Rützler & Bromley, 1981
Cliona schmidti (Ridley, 1881)
Cliona thoosina Topsent, 1888
Cliona topsenti (Lendenfeld, 1898)
Cliona vermifera Hancock, 1867
Cliona viridis (Schmidt, 1862)

Literature

original description	Grant, R.E. 1826a. Notice of a New Zoophyte (Cliona celata Gr.) from the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal 1: 78-81.
basis of record	Rützler, K. 2002. Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. In Hooper, J. N. A. & Van Soest, R. W. M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 1 (Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow
additional source	Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. 2001. Porifera, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 85-103

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Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Cliona. 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.; Cárdenas, P. (2014) World Porifera database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:132026