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

Cliona Grant, 1826

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Rhaphyrus*	Bowerbank, 1864	orthographic variant
*Cliona burtoni*	Topsent, 1932	taxonomically included in
*Cliona caledoniae*	van Soest & Beglinger, 2009	taxonomically included in
*Cliona celata*	Grant, 1826	taxonomically included in
*Cliona janitrix*	Topsent, 1932	taxonomically included in
*Cliona lobata*	Hancock, 1849	taxonomically included in
*Cliona parenzani*	Corriero & Scalera-Liaci, 1997	taxonomically included in
*Cliona rhodensis*	Rützler & Bromley, 1981	taxonomically included in
*Cliona schmidtii*	(Ridley, 1881)	taxonomically included in
*Cliona thoosina*	Topsent, 1888	taxonomically included in
*Cliona topsenti*	(Lendenfeld, 1898)	taxonomically included in
*Cliona vermifera*	Hancock, 1867	taxonomically included in
*Cliona viridis*	(Schmidt, 1862)	taxonomically included in
*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 parenzani Corriero & Scalera-Liaci, 1997
Cliona rhodensis Rützler & Bromley, 1981
Cliona schmidtii (Ridley, 1881)
Cliona thoosina Topsent, 1888
Cliona topsenti (Lendenfeld, 1898)
Cliona vermifera Hancock, 1867
Cliona viridis (Schmidt, 1862)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: boring sponges sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Bohrschwämme

Literature

original description	Grant, R.E. (1826). 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. (eds) 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	Rützler, K. (2002 [2004]). Family Clionaidae D'Orbigny, 1851. Pp. 173-185. 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	Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 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: 85-103.
additional source	Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

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. Cliona Grant, 1826. 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:132026