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

Haliclona (Gellius) Gray, 1867

Rank: Subgenus
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Gellius Gray, 1867

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Haliclona*	Grant, 1841	accepted genus name
*Pellinula*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym
*Protoschmidtia*	Czerniavsky, 1878	synonym
*Tedaniella*	Czerniavsky, 1880	synonym

Subgenus group names

*Raphisia*	Topsent, 1892	orthographic variant
*Asychis*	Gray, 1867	synonym
*Rhaphisia*	Topsent, 1892	synonym

Children

Haliclona (Gellius) angulata (Bowerbank, 1866)
Haliclona (Gellius) binaria (Topsent, 1927)
Haliclona (Gellius) bioxeata (Boury-Esnault, Pansini & Uriz, 1994)
Haliclona (Gellius) cucurbitiformis (Kirkpatrick, 1907)
Haliclona (Gellius) dubia (Babic, 1922)
Haliclona (Gellius) emiletopsenti Van Soest & Hooper, 2020
Haliclona (Gellius) fibulata (Schmidt, 1862)
Haliclona (Gellius) godthaabae Van Soest, 2024
Haliclona (Gellius) lacazei (Topsent, 1893)
Haliclona (Gellius) laevis (Ridley & Dendy, 1886)
Haliclona (Gellius) laurentina (Lambe, 1900)
Haliclona (Gellius) laxa (Topsent, 1892)
Haliclona (Gellius) marismedi (Pulitzer-Finali, 1978)
Haliclona (Gellius) microsigma (Babic, 1922)
Haliclona (Gellius) microtoxa (Lundbeck, 1902)
Haliclona (Gellius) microxifera (Topsent, 1925)
Haliclona (Gellius) primitiva (Lundbeck, 1902)
Haliclona (Gellius) proxima (Lundbeck, 1902)
Haliclona (Gellius) raphidiophora (Lendenfeld, 1888)
Haliclona (Gellius) rava (Stephens, 1912)
Haliclona (Gellius) reptans (Whitelegge, 1906)
Haliclona (Gellius) rhaphidiophora (Brøndsted, 1933)
Haliclona (Gellius) spongiosa Topsent, 1904
Haliclona (Gellius) tenuisigma (Sarà & Siribelli, 1960)
Haliclona (Gellius) tricurvatifera (Carter, 1876)
Haliclona (Gellius) uncinata (Topsent, 1892)

Literature

original description	Gray, J.E. (1867). Notes on the Arrangement of Sponges, with the Descriptions of some New Genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1867(2): 492-558, pls XXVII-XXVIII.
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	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.

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 (Gellius) Gray, 1867. 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:131922