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Green Boring Sponge

Cliona viridis

Wildlife study photograph from iNaturalist.
(c) vincent_mathy, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC)

25 photos

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Easily confused with

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Where it is recorded

Records by month in Spain.January 5, February 2, March 0, April 1, May 0, June 1, July 2, August 15, September 4, October 7, November 3, December 1.
Spain41
Cataluña/Catalunya39
France35
Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur28
Greece22
Egean12
Occitanie7
Peloponisos-W. Greece & Ionian6
United States5
Thessalia-Central Greece3

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Classification

KingdomAnimals · Animalia
PhylumSponges · Porifera
ClassDemosponges · Demospongiae
OrderClionaida
FamilyBoring Sponges · Clionaidae
GenusCliona

Sources

Remember the name next time.

Practise Green Boring Sponge with real photos from different observers. Say the name out loud, and it comes back just before you would forget it.