“to drink”. Nine years later, Gray (1867) transferred Hardwicke’s Spongia patera to the genus Rhaphiophora,giving the defi nition as “Sponge cup-shaped, friable, with a harder external case, pores minute. Spicules pin-shaped, fasciculated.” without reference to Schlegel (1858). Topsent (1909) proposed the transfer of P. patera to the genus
Cliona after Vosmaer (1908) reported that C. patera is a boring sponge.