Galapagos Species Database
The Galapagos Species Database shares the information about the species from our Natural History Collections.
Haliclona (Haliclona) clairae
Esponja, Sponge
Domain
Eukaryota
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Porifera
Class
Demospongiae
Order
Haplosclerida
Family
Chalinidae
Genus
Haliclona (Haliclona)
Species
clairae
Taxon category: Accepted
Holotype: MCCDRS9445, Nameless Island, 0.67° S, 90.586° W, 24 m, 9 Aug 2003; Paratype: MCCDRS9444, Los Hermanos Islands, 0.867° S, 90.782° W, 9 m, 18 Jan 2003; Type locality: Nameless Islands (Sim-Smith et al., 2021).
Origin: Endemic
Map of specimen collection localities or observation records for this species in our collections database.
Distribution: Galapagos Islands: Nameless Island and Los Hermanos Islands, Isabela (Sim-Smith et al., 2021).
- Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.
- IUCN (2023) The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2023-1. Https://www.iucnredlist.org
- Sim-Smith, C. CLEVELAND HICKMAN, J. R., & Kelly, M. (2021) New shallow water sponges (Porifera) from the Gálapagos Islands Zootaxa, 5012(1), 1–71. https://doi.org/doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5012.1.1
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"Galapagos Species Database, Haliclona (Haliclona) clairae", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=18823. Accessed 31 October 2026.