Cliona

Coined by Scottish zoologist Robert Edmond Grant in 1826, from Ancient Greek κλείω (kleíō, “shut”).

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1. A taxonomic genus within the family Clionaidae – many demosponges.

• (genus): Cliona celata (red boring sponge) - type species; Cliona patera (Neptune's cup) - selected other species

• Cliona on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cliona on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Cliona on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Cliona at World Register of Marine Species
• R.E. Grant (1826), “Notice of a New Zoophyte (Cliona celata Gr.) from the Firth of Forth”, in Edinburgh New Philosophical Journal, volume 1, pages 78-81

Borrowed from Irish Clíona.

Cliona

1. A female given name from Irish.
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     Accompanying [Leo] Varadkar is his book publicist, Cliona. She says he would like to have something to eat and suggests she and I return in half an hour.