New species in the sponge genus (Poecilosclerida, Latrunculiidae) from South Africa.

The genus Samaai & Kelly, 2002 is to date exclusively reported from South Africa. Three species are known from the southern coast: Samaai & Kelly, 2002, from the Garden Route National Park Tsitsikamma Marine Protected Area (MPA) and Algoa Bay; Samaai, Gibbons, Kelly and Davies-Coleman, 2003, collected from Cape Recife in St. Francis Bay, and Samaai, Gibbons, Kelly and Davies-Coleman, 2003, collected from a wreck site in a small bay west of Hout Bay on the west coast of South Africa.