Toufiek Samaai

Toufiek Samaai, South African spongiologist.

• Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA), Oceans & Coasts Branch, Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystems Research, Private Bag X2, Roggebaai, 8012, Cape Town, South Africa.
• Animal Demography Unit, Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Taxon names authored

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• 79 taxon names authored by Toufiek Samaai

Eponyms

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• 1 eponym of Toufiek Samaai

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2002

• Samaai, T. & Krasokhin, V. 2002. Latrunculia oparinae sp.nov. (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Latrunculiidae) from the Kurile Islands, Sea of Okhotsk, Russia. Beaufortia 52(8): 95–101. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Kelly, M. & Samaai, T. 2002. Family Podospongiidae de Laubenfels, 1936. Pp. 694–702 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.). Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 
• Kelly, M. & Samaai, T. 2002. Suborder Latrunculina subord. nov. incertae sedis. Pp. 707 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.). Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 
• Samaai, T. & Kelly, M. 2002. Family Latrunculiidae Topsent, 1922. Pp. 708–720 in Hooper, J.N.A. & van Soest, R.W.M. (eds.). Systema Porifera. Guide to the classification of sponges. 2 volumes. Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers: New York, Boston, Dordrecht, London, Moscow. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2 Reference page. 

2003

• Samaai, T., Gibbons, M.J., Kelly, M. & Davies-Coleman, M. 2003. South African Latrunculiidae (Porifera: Demospongiae: Poecilosclerid): descriptions of new species of Latrunculia du Bocage, Strongylodesma Lévi, and Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly. Zootaxa 371(1): 1–26. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.371.1.1 Reference page. 

2004

• Samaai, T., Keyzers, R. & Davies-Coleman, M. 2004. A new species of Strongylodesma Lévi, 1969 (Porifera; Demospongiae; Poecilosclerida; Latrunculiidae) from Aliwal Shoal on the east coast of South Africa. Zootaxa 584(1): 1–11. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.584.1.1 Reference page. 
• Samaai, T., Govender, V. & Kelly, M. 2004. Cyclacanthia n.g. (Demospongiae: Poecilosclerida: Latrunculiidae incertea sedis), a new genus of marine sponges from South African waters, and description of two new species. Zootaxa 725(1): 1–18. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.725.1.1 Reference page. 

2006

• Samaai, T., Gibbons, M.J. & Kelly, M. 2006. Revision of the genus Latrunculia du Bocage, 1869 (Porifera: Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of new species from New Caledonia and the Northeastern Pacific. Zootaxa 1127(1): 1–71. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1127.1.1 Reference page. 

2009

• Samaai, T., Gibbons, M.J. & Kelly, M. 2009. A revision of the genus Strongylodesma Lévi (Porifera: Demospongiae: Latrunculiidae) with descriptions of four new species. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89(8): 1689–1702. DOI: 10.1017/S0025315409000101 Reference page. 

2012

• Samaai, T., Janson, L. & Kelly, M. 2012. New species of Latrunculia from the Agulhas shelf, South Africa, with designation of a type species for subgenus Biannulata (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida, Latrunculiidae). Zootaxa 3395(1): 33–45. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3395.1.3 Reference page. 

2016

• Kelly, M., Sim-Smith, C., Stone, R., Samaai, T., Reiswig, H.M. & Austin, W.C. 2016. New taxa and arrangements within the family Latrunculiidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida). Zootaxa 4121(1): 1–48. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4121.1.1 Reference page. 

2017

• Samaai, T., Gibbons, M.J. & Muricy, G. 2017. Validation of Tethya samaaii Ribeiro & Muricy, 2011, replacement name for the sponge Tethya rubra Samaai & Gibbons, 2005 (Demospongiae, Tethyida, Tethyidae). Zootaxa 4347(3): 592–594. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4347.3.11. Reference page. 
• Samaai, T., Maduray, S., Janson, L., Gibbons, M.J., Ngwakum, B. & Teske, P.R. 2017. A new species of habitat–forming Suberites (Porifera, Demospongiae, Suberitida) in the Benguela upwelling region (South Africa). Zootaxa 4254(1): 49–81. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4254.1.3 Reference page. 

2019

• Samaai, T., Pillay, R. & Janson, L. 2019. Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. Zootaxa 4587(1): 1–85. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4587.1.1 Reference page. 
• Mote, S., Schönberg, C.H.L., Samaai, T., Gupta, V. & Ingole, B. 2019. A new clionaid sponge infests live corals on the west coast of India (Porifera, Demospongiae, Clionaida). Systematics and Biodiversity 17(2): 190–206. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2018.1513430 Reference page. 

2020

• Pinheiro, U., Calheira, L., Martins, C., Janson, L., Taylor, R. & Samaai, T. 2020. Two new species of freshwater sponges from Neotropical and Afrotropical Regions. Zootaxa 4728(3): 363–371. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.3.5 Reference page. 
• Samaai, T., Pillay, R. & Janson, L. 2020. Suggestion of Spongia (Heterofibria) peddemorsi as replacement name for Spongia (Heterofibria) cooki Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019. Zootaxa 4728(1): 149–149. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4728.1.9 Reference page. 
• Samaai, T., Kelly, M., Ngwakum, B., Payne, R., Teske, P.R., Janson, L., Kerwath, S., Parker, D. & Gibbons, M.J. 2020. New Latrunculiidae (Demospongiae, Poecilosclerida) from the Agulhas ecoregion of temperate southern Africa. Zootaxa 4896(3): 409–442. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.3.4 Reference page. 

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ZooBank: A3D22061-CE38-4129-A9B1-307E86A5D29D