WoRMS name details
Psammocinia alba Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019
1341929 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1341929)
unaccepted (preoccupied)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Samaai, T.; Pillay, R.; Janson, L. (2019). Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4587(1): 1-85., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4587.1.1
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Holotype SAMC A24789, geounit Delagoa
Holotype SAMC A24789, geounit Delagoa [details]
Homonymy The species was described by Samaai et al. from Sodwana Bay, NE coast of South Africa, 27.4581°S 32.7141°E, depth 25 m...
Homonymy The species was described by Samaai et al. from Sodwana Bay, NE coast of South Africa, 27.4581°S 32.7141°E, depth 25 m (holotype SAMC-A24789). The name is a junior primary homonym of Psammocinia alba Calcinai et al. (2017: 139, fig. 9), described from Timur, Bunaken Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1.6333°N 124.7667°E, depth 22 m (holotype MSNG 60140). Junior primary homonyms are permanently unavailable and their name has to be replaced (ICZN art. 59.1). The two descriptions are rather similar, but the differences in e.g. thickness of the primary and secondary fibres (80 and 20 μm in the senior alba species, 150–210 and 51–98 μm in the junior alba species) renders it unlikely that the two are conspecific. As a consequence I propose Psammocinia samaaii nom.nov. to replace the junior homonym. [details]
de Voogd, N.J.; Alvarez, B.; Boury-Esnault, N.; Cárdenas, P.; Díaz, M.-C.; Dohrmann, M.; Downey, R.; Goodwin, C.; Hajdu, E.; Hooper, J.N.A.; Kelly, M.; Klautau, M.; Lim, S.C.; Manconi, R.; Morrow, C.; Pinheiro, U.; Pisera, A.B.; Ríos, P.; Rützler, K.; Schönberg, C.; Turner, T.; Vacelet, J.; van Soest, R.W.M.; Xavier, J. (2025). World Porifera Database. Psammocinia alba Samaai, Pillay & Janson, 2019. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1341929 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
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Samaai, T.; Pillay, R.; Janson, L. (2019). Shallow-water Demospongiae (Porifera) from Sodwana Bay, iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 4587(1): 1-85., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4587.1.1
page(s): 67-68 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 67-68 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Holotype SAMC A24789, geounit Delagoa [details]
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Homonymy The species was described by Samaai et al. from Sodwana Bay, NE coast of South Africa, 27.4581°S 32.7141°E, depth 25 m (holotype SAMC-A24789). The name is a junior primary homonym of Psammocinia alba Calcinai et al. (2017: 139, fig. 9), described from Timur, Bunaken Island, Sulawesi, Indonesia, 1.6333°N 124.7667°E, depth 22 m (holotype MSNG 60140). Junior primary homonyms are permanently unavailable and their name has to be replaced (ICZN art. 59.1). The two descriptions are rather similar, but the differences in e.g. thickness of the primary and secondary fibres (80 and 20 μm in the senior alba species, 150–210 and 51–98 μm in the junior alba species) renders it unlikely that the two are conspecific. As a consequence I propose Psammocinia samaaii nom.nov. to replace the junior homonym. [details]
