Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly, 2002
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4896.3.4 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4391110 |
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Subgenus Tsitsikamma Samaai & Kelly, 2002 View in CoL
Type species. Tsitsikamma favus Samaai and Kelly, 2002: 718 View in CoL ; fig. 6A–G.
Diagnosis. Tsitsikamma species that are thickly encrusting to hemispherical attached to the substratum through a common base; have a rigid, thick honeycomb chamber like choanosome reinforced by very large, thick anisostyles. The isochiadiscorhabd microscleres are large, having a thick shaft and three sets of cylindrical-conical tubercles protruding from the shaft.
Remarks. We herewith establish the nominotypical subgenus Tsitsikamma subgen. nov. Samaai and Kelly, 2002, for the species T. favus , T. scurra , T. nguni Parker-Nance, 2019 and T. amatholensis sp. nov., based on the possession of dense megasclere tracts that form a rigid, honeycomb-like structure, with chambers visible to the unaided eye.
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