Genus Cliona Grant, 1826

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• Cliona 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 species:

   Cliona celata Grant, 1826 by monotypy.
• Papillina Schmidt, E.O. 1862. Die Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 88 pp. 7 pls. [68] [junior homonym of Papillina Conrad, 1855 (Mollusca), Papillina Moquin-Tandon, 1855, (Mollusca)].

  Type species:

   Cliona celata Grant, 1826 by monotypy (as Papillina suberea Schmidt, 1862).
• Raphyrus Bowerbank, J.S. 1862. On the anatomy and physiology of the Spongiadae. Part III. On the generic characters, the specific characters, and on the method of examination. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London 152: 1087-1135 pls 72-74 [1091].

  Type species:

   Raphyrus griffithsi Bowerbank, 1862 by monotypy.
• Myle Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [525].

  Type species:

   Cliona carpenteri Hancock, 1867 by monotypy.
• Idomon Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [526].

  Type species:

   Cliona alderi Hancock, 1867 by monotypy.
• Pronax Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [526].

  Type species:

   Cliona lobata Hancock, 1867 by monotypy.
• Sapline Gray, J.E. 1867. Notes on the arrangement of sponges, with the description of some new genera. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 492-558 pls 27-28 [526].

  Type species:

   Vioa granti Schmidt, 1862 by monotypy.
• Osculina Schmidt, E.O. 1868. Die Spongien der Küste von Algier. Mit Nachträgen zu den Spongien des Adriatischen Meeres. Leipzig : Engelmann 44 pp. 5 pls. [2].

  Type species:

   Osculina polystomella Schmidt, 1868 by monotypy.
• Papillella Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1885. Porifera. In Bronn, H.G. Die Klassen und Ordnungen des Thierreichs 2: 177-368 pls 19-25 [350] [nom. nov. for Papillina Schmidt, 1862].
• Papillissa Lendenfeld, R. von 1888. Descriptive Catalogue of the Sponges in the Australian Museum, Sydney. London : Taylor & Francis 260 pp. 12 pls. [64].

  Type species:

   Papillissa lutea Lendenfeld, 1888 by monotypy.
• Euryphylle Duchassaing, F.P. de & Michelotti, G. 1864. Spongiaires de la mer Caraïbe. Natuurkundige Verhandelingen van de Bataafsche Hollandsche Maatschappye der Wetenschappen te Haarlem 2 21: 1-124 pls 1-25 [1] [type species unknown?].
• Dyscliona Kirkpatrick, R. 1900. Description of sponges from Funafuti. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 7 6: 345-362 pls 13-15 [352].

  Type species:

   Discliona davidi Kirkpatrick, 1900 by original designation.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Vosmaer, G.C.J. 1932. [1932–1935]. The sponges of the Bay of Naples. Porifera Incalcaria. In Vosmaer-Röell, C.S. & Burton, M. (eds) Vol. 1 (1932–3), issued in 5 parts. Capita Zoologica 3: 1–456 pls 1–35. Vol. 2 (1933–5), issued in 5 parts. Capita Zoologica 5: 457–857 pls 36–71 (pls 43, 55 omitted). Also published separately in 3 vols (2 vols text, 875 pp., and atlas, 69 pls). The Hague : Martinus Nijhoff 1933–35. [331]
• Wiedenmayer, F. in Hooper, J.N.A. & Wiedenmayer, F. 1994. Porifera. pp. 1-620 in Wells, A. (ed.). Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Melbourne : CSIRO Australia Vol. 12 xiii 624 pp. [Date published 21/Nov/1994] [131] (for Gapoda de Laubenfels, 1936)
• Rosell, D. & Uriz, M.J. 1997. Phylogenetic relationships within the excavating Hadromerida (Porifera), with a systematic revision. Cladistics 13: 349-366 [361]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan, except Antarctic.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Central Western Shelf Transition (28), Central Western Shelf Province (29), Southwest Shelf Transition (30), Southwest Shelf Province (31), Great Australian Bight Shelf Transition (32), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northwest Province (4), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41), Central Western Transition (5)

Distribution References

Diagnosis

Sponges primarily in alpha growth form (excavating chambers, communicating through papillae), some species developing beta stage by merging of papillae, very few regularly outgrowing their substratum and occurring in gamma stage. Some gammastage species attain large, irregular massive or cup shape but do not develop specialised incurrent or excurrent features other than, in some forms, the original pori- and oscula-bearing papillae. Spicules are tylostyles as megascleres, very thin oxeas (raphides) as accessory scleres but never of structural importance, and spiraster-like microscleres. Spirasters are straight, bent, kinked, spiraled, or undulate spiny rhabds, including amphiastrose forms clearly derived from true spirasters; extreme forms may be entirely smooth.

 

ID Keys

See Family Clionaidae Diagnosis.

 

Diagnosis References

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. New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Vol. 1. [176]

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
29-Mar-2018	DEMOSPONGIAE Sollas, 1885	17-Sep-2014	MODIFIED	ABRS
29-Mar-2018		15-Dec-2011	MOVED
29-Mar-2018		13-Apr-2011	MODIFIED
		12-Feb-2010	(import)