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

Cliona vermifera Hancock, 1867

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cliona*	Grant, 1826	accepted genus name
*Papillina*	Schmidt, 1862	synonym
*Vioa*	Nardo, 1839	synonym

Literature

original description	Hancock, A. 1867. Note on the Excavating Sponges; with Descriptions of four new Species. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (3)19(112): 229-242, pls VII-VIII.
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	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.
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

Genbank

Taxonomy

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External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Porifera Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
GBIF

Citation

van Soest, R. (2014). Cliona vermifera. 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:134145