South African Latrunculiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida): descriptions of new species of Latrunculia du Bocage, Strongylodesma Lévi, and Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly Author Samaai, Toufiek Author Gibbons, Mark J. Author Kelly, Michelle Author Davies-Coleman, Mike text Zootaxa 2003 371 1 26 journal article 51240 10.5281/zenodo.156901 dee4aba8-8b9f-431f-8e28-4f29f0c3c3a8 1175­5326 156901 Genus Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly 2002 Type species. Tsitsikamma favus Samaai & Kelly, 2002: 729 Diagnosis. Semispherical, pedunculate, or encrusting Latrunculiidae with a smooth surface covered with large cylindrical or volcano­shaped oscules and raised fungiform areolate porefields. Colour in life is dark liver brown to dark turquoise, or pinkish brown. Texture is extraordinarily tough and leathery. Megascleres are styles, microscleres are isochiadiscorhabds. A choanosome permeated with rigid honeycomb­like chambers visible to the unaided eye, surrounding a much softer interior with wispy tracts, or a single purselike chamber with softer interior, characterises this genus. Microscleres are present in an irregular palisade on the surface ectosome and lining the internal tracts (modified from Samaai & Kelly, 2002).