Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly 2002

Samaai, Toufiek, Gibbons, Mark J., Kelly, Michelle & Davies-Coleman, Mike, 2003, South African Latrunculiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida): descriptions of new species of Latrunculia du Bocage, Strongylodesma Lévi, and Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly, Zootaxa 371, pp. 1-26 : 19

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).