Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Parazoa > Phylum Porifera > Subphylum Cellularia > Class Demospongiae > Subclass Heteroscleromorpha > Order Haplosclerida > Family Chalinidae

Haliclona Grant, 1841

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pellinula*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym
*Protoschmidtia*	Czerniavsky, 1878	synonym
*Tedaniella*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym

Children

Haliclona (Flagellia) Van Soest, 2017
Haliclona (Gellius) Gray, 1867
Haliclona (Halichoclona) de Laubenfels, 1932
Haliclona (Haliclona) Grant, 1836
Haliclona (Reniera) Schmidt, 1862
Haliclona (Rhizoniera) Griessinger, 1971
Haliclona (Soestella) de Weerdt, 2000
Haliclona alba (Schmidt, 1862)
Haliclona aperta (Sarà, 1960)
Haliclona arctica (Fristedt, 1887)
Haliclona calamus (Lundbeck, 1902)
Haliclona caucasica (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Haliclona columbae (Walker, 1812)
Haliclona cribrata (Pulitzer-Finali, 1983)
Haliclona cribrosa (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Haliclona cylindrigera (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Haliclona elegans (Lendenfeld, 1887)
Haliclona ernsti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Haliclona filholi (Topsent, 1890)
Haliclona flavescens (Topsent, 1893)
Haliclona folium (Schmidt, 1870)
Haliclona foraminosa (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Haliclona gracilis (Miklucho-Maclay, 1870)
Haliclona groenlandica (Fristedt, 1887)
Haliclona hirsuta (Swartschewsky, 1906)
Haliclona inflata (Schmidt, 1868)
Haliclona irregularis (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Haliclona membranacea (Schmidt, 1868)
Haliclona merejkowskii (Swartschewsky, 1906)
Haliclona mollicula (Lundbeck, 1902)
Haliclona mollis (Lambe, 1893)
Haliclona nigricans (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Haliclona omissa (Griessinger, 1971)
Haliclona palmonensis Carballo & Garcia-Gómez, 1995
Haliclona papillifera (Swartschewsky, 1906)
Haliclona pocilliformis (Griessinger, 1971)
Haliclona poecillastroides (Vacelet, 1969)
Haliclona pons (Schmidt, 1870)
Haliclona pulchra (Swartschewsky, 1906)
Haliclona rossica (Hentschel, 1929)
Haliclona schmidtii (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Haliclona solowetzkaja (Hentschel, 1929)
Haliclona spitzbergensis (Hentschel, 1916)
Haliclona stirpescens (Topsent, 1925)
Haliclona tenera (Marenzeller, 1878)
Haliclona tenuiderma (Lundbeck, 1902)
Haliclona transitans (Czerniavsky, 1880)
Haliclona tubulifera (Swartschewsky, 1905)
Haliclona utriculus (Topsent, 1904)
Haliclona vega (Fristedt, 1887)
Haliclona voeringi (Lundbeck, 1902)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: カワナシカイメン属

Literature

original description	Grant, R.E. (1841). Porifera. Pp. 5-9, 310-313, pls II-IV. In: H. Bailliere (Ed.), Outlines of comparative anatomy. 1. London. 1-656.
basis of record	De Weerdt, W.H. (2002). Family Chalinidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 852-873. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (ed.) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 0-306-47260-0 (printed version).
basis of record	De Weerdt, W.H. (2002 [2004]). Family Chalinidae Gray, 1867. Pp. 852-873. In: Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M. (eds) Systema Porifera. A guide to the classification of sponges. Kluwer Academic/ Plenum Publishers, New York. 1708 + xvliii. ISBN 978-1-4615-0747-5 (eBook electronic version).
additional source	de Weerdt, W.H. (1986). A systematic revision of the north-eastern Atlantic shallow-water Haplosclerida (Porifera, Demospongiae): 2. Chalinidae. Beaufortia. 36(6): 81-165.
additional source	Griessinger, J. M. (1971). Etude des Réniérides de Méditerranée (Démosponges Haplosclérides). Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (Zoologie). 3(3): 97-182.
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: 85-103.
additional source	Kelly, M.; Edwards, A.R.; Wilkinson, M.R.; Alvarez, B.; Cook, S. de C.; Bergquist, P.R.; Buckeridge, St J.; Campbell, H.J.; Reiswig, H.M.; Valentine, C.; Vacelet, J. (2009). Phylum Porifera: sponges. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 23-46.

Genbank

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.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Haliclona Grant, 1841. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:131834