Species Profile
Cliona
Boring sponge
KingdomAnimalia
PhylumPorifera
ClassDemospongiae
OrderUnknown
FamilyUnknown
Introduction
Cliona lives in marine habitats.
Sessile and destructive.
Important in reef ecology.
Size & Structure
01
Encrusting body
02
Bores into substrates
03
Yellow colour
04
Small openings
Cliona — 3D Model
General Features
- Coelom
- Acoelomate
- Body plan
- Cell aggregate body plan
- Germ layer
- Diploblastic (cellular grade)
- Metamerism
- Absent
- Body symmetry
- Asymmetrical
- Fertilization
- Internal
- Digestion type
- Intracellular
- Nervous system
- Absent
- Excretory organ
- Absent
- Body temperature
- Poikilothermic, stenohaline
- Circulatory type
- Type-I (absent)
- Development type
- Indirect
- Respiratory type
- Diffusion
- Mode of excretion
- Ammonotelism
- Circulation system
- Water canal system
- Skeleton structure
- Endoskeleton (siliceous spicules)
- Level of Organisation
- Cellular level
- Regulation of Osmosis
- Osmoconformer
Ecology
Bioerosion of reefs
Substrate modification
Reef dynamics
Economic Importance
Damages corals
Reef management concern
Ecological studies