Tsitsikamma scurra

Tsitsikamma scurra

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Poecilosclerida
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Parazoa Phylum: Porifera Classis: Demospongiae Subclassis: Heteroscleromorpha Ordo: Poecilosclerida

Familia: Latrunculiidae
Genus: Tsitsikamma
Species: Tsitsikamma scurra

Name

Tsitsikamma scurra Samaai, Gibbons, Kelly & Davies-Coleman, 2003: 20

• Holotype: BMNH 2003.1.10.3, collected by Patrick L. Colin (Coral Reef Research Foundation) on 31 March 2000.
• Type locality: “Hout Bay, near the wreck of British “The Maori”, sunk in 1909, ~2.5 nm offshore and north of Hout Bay, west coast near Cape Town, South Africa, 34°02’16’’S, 18°18’34’’E, 28 m”.

References

Primary references

• 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. 

Links

• Tsitsikamma scurra in the World Register of Marine Species