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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(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.