Species Cliona orientalis Thiele, 1900

Museums

Regional Maps

• Cliona orientalis Thiele, J. 1900. Kieselschwämme von Ternate. I. Abhandlungen der Senckenbergischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 25: 19-80 pls 2-3 [19-80].

  Type data:

   Holotype ZMB ZMB 3205 specimen and slides, Ternate, Indonesia [0°47'06"N 127°22'12"E].

Distribution

States

Queensland, Western Australia

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Aquatic, benthic, filter-feeder.

General References

Fromont, J. 2003. Porifera (Sponges) in the Dampier Archipelago: Taxonomic affinities and biogeography. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Marine Biological Workshop. The Marine Flora and Fauna of Dampier, Western Australia. 405-417 pp. [408] (Listed in this article)

Fromont, J., Craig, R., Rawlinson, L. & Alder, J. 2005. Excavating sponges that are destructive to farmed pearl oysters in Western and Northern Australia. Aquaculture Research 38(2): 150-162 [152]

Fromont, J., Vanderklift, M.A. & Kendrick, G.A. 2006. Marine sponges of the Dampier Archipelago, Western Australia: patterns of species distributions, abundance and diversity. Biodiversity and Conservation 15(11): 3731-3750 [3743]

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 [168]

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

Schönberg, C.H.L. 2003. Substrate effects on the bioeroding demosponge Cliona orientalis. 2. Substrate colonisation and tissue growth. Marine Ecology 24(1): 59-74 [59]

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