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

Cliona celata Grant, 1826

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Vioa Nardo, 1839

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

ClionaGrant, 1826accepted genus name
Rhaphyrus Bowerbank, 1864 orthographic variant
Papillina Schmidt, 1862 synonym
Vioa Nardo, 1839 synonym

Species group names

Cliona alderi Hancock, 1849 synonym
Cliona angulata Hancock, 1849 synonym
Cliona gorgonioides Hancock, 1849 synonym
Cliona griffithsii (Bowerbank, 1866) synonym
Cliona hystrix (Johnston, 1842) synonym
Cliona tenebrosus (Bowerbank, 1882) synonym
Cliona terebrans (Duvernoy, 1840) synonym
Cliona typica (Nardo, 1833) synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Catalan: esponja perforant sources: Club d'immersió Facultat de Biologia, Universitat de Barcelona
 Dutch: boorspons; gele boorspons sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;Bergbauer, M.; Humberg, B. (2001). Gids flora en fauna van de Middellandse Zee [Guide to the flora and fauna of the Mediterranean Sea]. Tirion Natuur: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-423-9. 319 pp.
 English: boring sponge; red boring sponge; sulfur sponge; yellow boring horny sponge; yellow boring sponge sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.;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.;National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].
 French: clione jaune; éponge jaune sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.;National General Status Working Group [Groupe de travail national sur la situation générale]. (2017). Standardized Common Names for Wild Species in Canada [Noms communs normalisés pour les espèces sauvages au Canada].
 German: gelber Bohrschwamm; gelber Borschwamm; Zellenbohrschwamm sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.;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.
 Japanese: カクレセンコウカイメン sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.
 Polish: wiertka złotawa
 Spanish, Castillian: esponja perforante

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 [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).

basis of record

Rosell, D.; Uriz, M.J. (2002). Excavating and endolithic sponge species (Porifera) from the Mediterranean: species descriptions and identification key. Organisms, Diversity & Evolution. 2, 55-86.

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

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additional source

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additional source

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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 celata 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:134121

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