Species Cliona celata Grant, 1826

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cliona celata Grant, R.E. 1826. Notice of a new zoophyte (Cliona celata, Gr.) from the Firth of Forth. Edinburgh Philosophical Journal 1: 78-81 [78].

  Type data:

   Holotype UCLZ unknown slides (slides also in BMNH), Frith of Forth, Scotland [56°07'48"N 2°54'00"W].

 

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Also tropical Indo-Pacific, Indian Ocean, central and N America.

Introduced from [country unknown] via edible oyster shell.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39)

Ecological Descriptors

Benthic, filter-feeder, sessile.

Extra Ecological Information

Excavating on oyster shells; substantial structural damage to oyster shell.

 

General References

Hartman, W.D. 1958. Natural history of the marine sponges of southern New England. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 12: 1-155 pls 1-12 [1]

Schönberg, C.H.L. 2000. Bioeroding sponges common to the central Australian Great Barrier Reef: descriptions of three new species, two new records and additions to two previously described species. Senckenbergiana Maritima 30(3/6): 161-221 [174]

Schönberg, C.H.L. 2001. Induced colonization of corals by a clionid bioeroding sponge. Coral Reefs 20: 69-76 [69]

Sorokin, S.J., Currie, D.R. & Ward, T.M. 2005. Sponges of the Great Australian Bight Marine Park (Benthic Protection Zone). SARDI Research Report Series Adelaide : SARDI Aquatic Sciences Publication No RD04/0170 Part 65 pp. 1-92. [14]

Wesche, S.J., Adlard, R.D. & Hooper, J.N.A. 1997. The first incidence of clionid sponges (Porifera) from the Sydney rock oyster Saccostrea commercialis (Iredale and Roughley, 1933). Aquaculture 157: 173-180 [177]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)