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

Cliona lobata Hancock, 1849

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Pronax sensu Gray, 1867: 536

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Cliona*	Grant, 1826	accepted genus name
*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

Species group names

*Cliona howsei*	Hancock, 1849	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: lobate boring horny sponge sources: 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: éponge lobée

Literature

original description	Hancock, A. (1849). On the Excavating Powers of certain Sponges belonging to the genus Cliona with descriptions of several new Species,and an allied generic form. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (2)3(17): 321-348, pls XII-XV.
additional source	Van Soest, R.W.M. (1993). Affinities of the Marine Demospongiae Fauna of the Cape Verde Islands and Tropical West Africa. Courier Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg. 159: 205-219.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1925). Éponges de l'Étang de Thau. Bulletin de l'Institut Océanographique de Monaco. 452, 1-42.
additional source	Hoshino, T. (1977). Demosponges from the Kii channel and its environs, western Japan. Proceedings of the Japanese Society of Systematic Zoology. 13: 5-15.
additional source	Rho, B.J.; Sim, C.J. (1972). Faunal studies on the sponges in Korea. Floral and Faunal Studies Korea. 1972: 121-138.
additional source	Gomoiu, M.T. (1963). Towards the study of sponges of the western part of the Black Sea. Revue de Biologie , Académie de la République Populaire Roumanie. 8 (3): 345-355 (in Russian).
additional source	Le Mao, P.; Godet, L.; Fournier, J.; Desroy, D.; Gentil, F.; Thiébaud, E.; Poutinet, L.; Cabioch, L: Retière, C.; Chambers, P. (2020). Atlas de la faune marine invertébrée du golfe Normano-Breton Volume 5 - Autres espèces -. Éditions de la Station biologique de Roscoff, ISBN 82951802971. 308 pp.
additional source	Topsent, E. (1899). Document sur la faune des Spongiaires des Côtes de Belgique. Archives de Biologie. 16: 105-115.
additional source	Borojevic, R.; Cabioch, L.; Lévi, C. (1968). Inventaire de la faune marine de Roscoff. Spongiaires. Éditions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff. pp. 1-44.
additional source	Alander, H. (1942). Sponges from the Swedish west-coast and adjacent waters. Ph.D. Thesis. (University of Lund, H. Struves: Gøteborg). Pp. 1-95, 15 pls.
additional source	Sivaleela, G. (2014). Marine sponges of Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay. Records of the Zoolgical Survey of India. 114 (Part 4): 607-622.
additional source	Vacelet, J.; Vasseur, P.; Lévi, C. (1976). Spongiaires de la pente externe des récifs coralliens de Tuléar (Sud-Ouest de Madagascar). Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (A, Zoologie). 49:1-116, pls I-X.
additional source	Lévi, C.; Vacelet, J. (1958). Éponges récoltées dans l'Atlantique oriental par le 'Président Théodore-Tissier' (1955-1956). Revue des Travaux de l'Institut des Pêches maritimes 22 (2). 225-246.
additional source	Stephens, J. (1915). Sponges of the Coasts of Ireland. I.- The Triaxonia and part of the Tetraxonida. Fisheries, Ireland Scientific Investigations. 1914(4): 1-43, pls I-V.
additional source	Thomas, P.A. (1985). Demospongiae of the Gulf of Mannar and Palk Bay. In: Recent Advances in Marine Biology. New Delhi, James, P.S.B.R. (ed.). Today Tomorrow's Printers and Publishers. 205-365.
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	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
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.

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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 lobata Hancock, 1849. 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:134131