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Distribution and biogeography of the Paradiaptominae (Copepoda: Calanoida: Diaptomidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: NA RaynerThe Paradiaptominae, a subfamily of the large Diaptomidae family, is a small group of freshwater calanoids of which 24 species in four genera have been described. They are endemic to Africa with the exception of four species, Metadiaptomus asiaticus (Asia... -
The development of a GIS atlas of southern African freshwater fish
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: LEP Scott PH Skelton AJ Booth L VerheustA geographic information systems (GIS) based atlas of southern African freshwater fish has been developed for the SADC countries. The JLB Smith Institute of Ichthyology, in collaboration with ALCOM, has developed a database of freshwater fish for this region from... -
Phylogeography of the African catfish, Chrysichthys maurus (Valenciennes, 1839)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: J-F AgnèsePolymorphism at 19 allozyme loci was studied in 227 individuals of the catfish, Chrysichthys maurus (Valenciennes, 1839), collected from ten populations representing nine different river basins in west Africa. Eleven of the loci studied were polymorphic. Analysis showed that populations... -
Prunus africana in the Bloukrans River Gorge, Southern Cape
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Forestry Journal • Authors: C.J. Geldenhuys --- George Department of Water Affairs, Forestry and Environmental Conservation,The decline of Prunus africana in the most southern end of its distribution is attributed to unsuitable establishment conditions for the seedlings and adverse climatic conditions. Only 43 trees ≥ 10 cm D.B.H. occur 47% of which are dead. The... -
Biogeographic patterns in rocky intertidal communities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: KJ Sink GM Branch JM HarrisOn the east coast of southern Africa, marine biogeographic boundaries have previously been unresolved. This paper analyses large-scale patterns of community structure of rocky intertidal shores along the whole of the KwaZulu-Natal coast, based on abundance data covering 220 macroalgal... -
Preliminary documentation and assessment of fish diversity in sub-Saharan African estuaries
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: AK WhitfieldLists of indigenous fish species sampled in cool-temperate, warm-temperate, subtropical and tropical estuaries in sub-Saharan Africa were compiled from both published and unpublished data. Comparisons were conducted at the species and family level between the fish assemblages recorded in the... -
The seaweeds of Angola: the transition between tropical and temperate marine floras on the west coast of southern Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: RJ Anderson --- Branch: Fisheries, Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, South Africa JJ Bolton --- Botany Department and Marine Research Institute, South Africa AJ Smit --- School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, South Africa D da Silva Neto --- Departamento de Ambiente do Instituto Nacional de Investigação Pesqueira (INIP), AngolaThe seaweed flora of Angola is relatively poorly known. Most of the 124 records listed for the country come from a 1974 British Natural History Museum expedition to the central and southern parts of that country. Previous biogeographic studies treated... -
South African kelp moving eastwards: the discovery of Ecklonia maxima (Osbeck) Papenfuss at De Hoop Nature Reserve on the south coast of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JJ Bolton --- Botany Department and Marine Research Institute, South Africa RJ Anderson --- Botany Department and Marine Research Institute, South Africa AJ Smit --- School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, Faculty of Science, South Africa MD Rothman --- Botany Department and Marine Research Institute, South AfricaHistorical and recent evidence is documented to demonstrate that the eastern limit of the major kelp-bed forming seaweed Ecklonia maxima has moved c. 73 km eastward along the south coast of South Africa since 2006, after remaining unchanged for almost... -
Variability in estuarine water temperature gradients and influence on the distribution of zooplankton: a biogeographical perspective
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: TH Wooldridge --- Department of Zoology, South Africa SHP Deyzel --- , South AfricaStructure and variability of water temperature gradients and potential influence on distribution of two tropical zooplankters (the mysid Mesopodopsis africana and the copepod Acartia natalensis) and their temperate congenerics (M. wooldridgei and A. longipatella) was investigated over a 10-year period... -
Patterns of endemicity and range restriction among southern African coastal marine invertebrates
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: RJ Scott --- Marine Biology Research Centre, Zoology Department, South Africa CL Griffiths --- Marine Biology Research Centre, Zoology Department, South Africa TB Robinson --- Department of Botany and Zoology, South AfricaSouthern Africa supports a rich marine biota of 12 734 currently described marine species. Although the distribution and overall species-richness patterns of several component taxa are well documented, studies considering range sizes are absent. This study considers range size frequencies... -
Zooplankton composition, abundance and distribution in selected south and west coast estuaries in South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Aquatic Science • Authors: PH Montoya-Maya --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa NA Strydom --- , South AfricaIn order to contribute to the understanding of estuarine zooplankton dynamics in cool-temperate systems, zooplankton samples were collected by plankton tows, using two modified WP2 nets, in nine estuaries on the south and west coasts of South Africa, seasonally between... -
Biogeographical patterns in the fauna associated with southern African mussel beds
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Wendy Hammond --- Centre for Invasion Biology and Marine Biology Research Institute, University of Cape Town, South Africa Charles Griffiths --- Centre for Invasion Biology and Marine Biology Research Institute, University of Cape Town, South AfricaMacrofauna communities colonizing intertidal mussel beds were sampled at seven sites between Swakopmund (Namibia) and Salt Rock (KwaZulu-Natal). Mean mussel cover, length, biomass and bed depth were all low in the southeast (former Transkei). Faunal abundance and biomass were minimal... -
Description of larval fish composition, abundance and distribution in nine south and west coast estuaries of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: P. H. Montoya-Maya --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa N. A. Strydom --- South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, South AfricaThe composition, abundance and distribution of larval fishes from nine south and west coast estuaries from South Africa was investigated by plankton tow once per season between June 2003 and March 2004. A total of 49 274 early stage fishes... -
A new subfossil bulbul (Aves: Passerines: Pycnonotidae) from Rodrigues Island, Mascarenes, south-western Indian Ocean
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Julian P Hume --- Bird Group, Department of Life Sciences, UKThe Hypsipetes bulbuls (Pycnonotidae) occur on Madagascar and oceanic islands throughout the Indian Ocean, as well as continental Asia. Endemic species are found on the Mascarene Islands of Mauritius and Réunion, but the genus was purportedly never reported from Rodrigues,... -
A new species of Heterixalus (Amphibia: Hyperoliidae) from western Madagascar
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Miguel Vences --- Zoologisches Forschungsinstitut und Museum A. Koenig, Germany Frank Glaw --- Acquario di Genova, Italy Riccardo Jesu --- Acquario di Genova, Area Porto Antico, Italy Giovanni Schimmenti --- Acquario di Genova, Area Porto Antico, ItalyA new species of hyperoliid frog, Heterixalus carbonei n.sp., is described from the Antsingy forest inwestern Madagascar. It is characterized by an advertisement call consisting of long and regular note series. The only other Heterixalus with a similar call structure,... -
Species richness, endemicity and distribution patterns of South African sea anemones (Cnidaria: Actiniaria & Corallimorpharia)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Fabian H. Acuña --- Departamento de Ciencias Marinas, Argentina Charles L. Griffiths --- Marine Biology Research Institute, South AfricaA revised and updated list of South African sea anemones is compiled and the distribution pattern and endemicity of each determined from museum and literature records. Forty nine valid species are recognized. Species richness appears fairly uniform around the coast,... -
Spatial metrics effect of forest fragmentation on forest bird abundance and site occupancy probability: the influence of patch size and isolation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Robert B Modest --- Department of Wildlife Management, Tanzania Shombe N Hassan --- Department of Wildlife Management, Tanzania Alfan A Rija --- Department of Wildlife Management, TanzaniaThe persistence of species taxa within fragmented habitats is dependent on the source–sink metapopulation processes, and forest patch size and isolation are key factors. Unveiling species–patch area and/or species–patch isolation relationships may help provide crucial information for species and landscape... -
Birds and biogeography of Mount Mecula in Mozambique’s Niassa National Reserve
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Claire N Spottiswoode --- Department of Zoology, UK Lincoln DC Fishpool --- BirdLife International, UK Julian L Bayliss --- Department of Zoology, UKThe montane forests of northern Mozambique’s isolated massifs are inhabited by numerous range-restricted and threatened bird species, but until recently were extremely little-known. We report on a first avifaunal survey of the isolated montane habitats of Mt Mecula (1 442... -
Phylogeny of the Sepia officinalis species complex in the eastern Atlantic extends the known distribution of Sepia vermiculata across the Benguela upwelling region
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: AJE Healey --- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Wales NJ McKeown --- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, Wales WM Potts --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa CL de Beer --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa W Sauer --- Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South Africa PW Shaw --- Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS), Aberystwyth University, WalesAccurate species identification and biogeographic characterisation are fundamental for appropriate management of expanding cephalopod fisheries. This study addresses this topic within the common cuttlefish Sepia officinalis species complex (S. officinalis, S. hierredda and S. vermiculata), with an emphasis on occurrence... -
Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of African spurfowls Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Coturnicini: Pternistis spp.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Tshifhiwa G Mandiwana-Neudani --- Department of Biodiversity, South Africa Robin M Little --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Timothy M Crowe --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Rauri CK Bowie --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South AfricaAfro-Asiatic perdicine galliform birds, commonly and inconsistently referred to as francolins, spurfowls and partridges, have contentious taxonomic and phylogenetic histories. In a widely followed monograph, Hall combined two putative monophyletic, but taxonomically unnamed, clades comprising 28 perdicine species known as... -
Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of ‘true’ francolins: Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Gallini; Francolinus, Ortygornis, Afrocolinus gen. nov., Peliperdix and Scleroptila spp.
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Tshifhiwa G Mandiwana-Neudani --- Department of Biodiversity, South Africa Robin M Little --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Timothy M Crowe --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Rauri CK Bowie --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South AfricaAfro-Asiatic perdicine galliform taxa commonly and inconsistently referred to as francolins, spurfowls and partridges have contentious taxonomic and phylogenetic histories. Hall combined two putative monophyletic, but taxonomically unnamed, clades comprising 28 perdicine species known as ‘francolins’ or fisante in South... -
Clarifying taxonomic, distributional and genetic information relating to subspecies of the Hildebrandt’s Spurfowl Pternistis hildebrandti and the Yellow-necked Spurfowl P. leucoscepus
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Timothy M Crowe --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Robin M Little --- FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, Department of Biological Sciences, South Africa Donald A Turner --- Bird Committee of Nature Kenya, KenyaWe provide suggested errata vis-à-vis Mandiwana-Neudani TG, Little RM, Crowe TM, Bowie RCK. 2019. Taxonomy, phylogeny and biogeography of African spurfowls Galliformes, Phasianidae, Phasianinae, Coturnicini: Pternistis spp. Ostrich 90(2): 145–172. Firstly, the name fischeri was incorrectly applied to the southern... -
Distribution and abundance patterns of two parapagurid hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) along the west and south coasts of South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: AG Wright --- , South Africa CL Griffiths --- , South Africa TP Fairweather --- , South AfricaA series of over 6 000 research-trawl samples collected along the west and south coasts of South Africa between 1987 and 2014 were analysed for the presence and biomass of two parapagurid hermit crabs, Sympagurus dimorphus and Parapagurus bouvieri. The... -
Zoogeography of marine Bryozoa around South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: MK Boonzaaier-Davids --- , South Africa WK Florence --- , South Africa MJ Gibbons --- , South AfricaThe zoogeography of marine Bryozoa around South Africa was investigated using published distribution records, museum catalogues, and an examination of previously unworked bryozoan material in (mostly) museum collections. Although a total of 276 valid species are recognised, it was not... -
Latitudinal changes in siphonophore assemblages across the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: D Kuyper --- , South Africa D Thibault --- , France MJ Gibbons --- , South AfricaSiphonophores are commonly considered to be useful indicators of water masses and water-mass movement, but their employment as such across the wider Southern Ocean has not so far been attempted. We redress this here using archived samples, collected during January–February... -
A Malagasy element in Continental Africa: a new subspecies of the rare Amauris nossima (Nymphalidae, Danainae) from the Kenyan coast
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Zoology • Authors: Tomasz W Pyrcz --- , Poland Steve Collins --- , Kenya Dorota Lachowska-Cierlik --- , Poland David C Lees --- , United Kingdom Szabolcs Sáfian --- , Hungary Klaudia Florczyk --- , PolandAmauris nossima Ward (Nymphalidae, Danainae) was known before this study only from Madagascar and the island of Mayotte, without clearly defined subspecies, but with five names considered invalid or infrasubspecific. It has generally been considered a rare species of butterfly... -
The reptiles of Tinhosa Grande islet (Gulf of Guinea): A taxonomic update and the role of Quaternary sea level fluctuations in their diversification
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Luis MP Ceríaco --- Universidade do Porto, Portugal Justin Bernstein --- Rutgers University-Newark, USA Ana C Sousa --- Universidade de Évora, Portuga Mariana P Marques --- Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Aaron M Bauer --- Villanova University, USA Sietze J Norder --- Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, The NetherlandsThe reptile fauna of Tinhosa Grande islet, Gulf of Guinea, comprises an endemic skink, Trachylepis adamastor, and an unidentified species of gecko of the genus Hemidactylus. Until recently, no molecular data were available for either species, impeding their phylogenetic placement... -
Distribution patterns of intertidal oribatid mites (Acari, Oribatida) from South African shores and their relationship to temperature
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: T Pfingstl --- , Austria J Baumann --- , Austria J-A Neethling --- , South Africa I Bardel-Kahr --- , Austria EA Hugo-Coetzee --- , South AfricaA faunistic study of the intertidal oribatid mite fauna of South Africa’s coastline revealed the presence of four species from three families, showing specific biogeographic patterns. Their occurrences show a clear east–west divide, with a small gap near East London... -
On the identity of west Saharan geckos of the Tarentola ephippiata complex (Squamata: Phyllodactylidae), with comments on an extreme case of syntopy with their close relative T. annularis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Thore Koppetsch --- Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, Germany Wolfgang Böhme --- Zoologisches Forschungsmuseum Alexander Koenig, GermanyTarentola geckos have a widespread geographic distribution and occur both in the Palearctic and Afrotropical realms, as well as the Neotropical region. Particularly, across North Africa phenotypically similar and cryptic species can be found, like the west Saharan members of... -
Evolutionary scenarios in the Pachydactylus Group geckos of southern Africa: new hypotheses
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: AaronM. Bauer --- Villanova University,Gekkonid lizards constitute one of the most diverse and highly endemic components of the southern African herpetofauna. Although higher order relationships among African geckos remain obscure, the Pachydactylus Group has been widely accepted as monophyletic. Within this clade many taxa... -
Phylogenetic relationships of African caecilians (Amphibia: Gymnophiona): Insights from mitochondrial rRNA gene sequences
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Mark Wilkinson --- The Natural History Museum, UK SimonP. Loader --- The Natural History Museum, UK DavidJ. Gower --- The Natural History Museum, UK JonathanA. Sheps --- University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK BernardL. Cohen --- University of Glasgow, Scotland, UKAfrica (excluding the Seychelles) has a diverse caecilian fauna, including the endemic family Scolecomorphidae and six endemic genera of the more cosmopolitan Caeciliidae. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies have not included any caecilians from the African mainland. Partial 12S and 16S... -
Phylogenetic relationships of southern African geckos in the Pachydactylus group (Squamata: Gekkonidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: AaronM. Bauer --- Villanova University, USA Trip Lamb --- East Carolina University, USAPachydactylus and its close relatives (Chondrodactylus, Colopus, Palmatogecko) constitute the most species‐rich component of the southern African gekkonid fauna. We conducted a phylogenetic analysis of mitochondrial (cytb, 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA) and nuclear (RAG‐1) gene sequences for these geckos. Pachydactylus... -
Biogeography of the reptiles of the central African republic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Laurent Chirio --- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, France Ivan Ineich --- Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, FranceA large number of reptiles from the Central African Republic (CAR) were collected during recent surveys conducted over six years (October 1990 to June 1996) and deposited at the Paris Natural History Museum (MNHN). This large collection of 4873 specimens... -
Homopholis and blaesodactylus (Squamata: Gekkonidae) revisited: New insights from a molecular phylogeny
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: The Journal of the Herpetological Association of Africa • Authors: Eli Greenbaum --- Villanova University, USA AaronM. Bauer --- Villanova University, USA ToddR. Jackman --- Villanova University, USASouth African Homopholis Boulenger, 1885 and Madagascan Blaesodactylus Boettger, 1893 are gekkonid genera originally distinguished by minor differences in scalation. Subsequent morphological studies have argued either for synonymy of the genera, or retention of the original 19th century taxonomy. Moreover,... -
Marine macroalgae of the Agulhas Marine Province of South Africa: biodiversity, exploitation and potential for aquaculture
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: JJ Bolton --- University of Cape Town, South Africa CD McQuaid --- Rhodes University, South AfricaThe Agulhas Marine Province (AMP) extends along most of the south coast of South Africa, from Cape Agulhas to the vicinity of the Mbashe River mouth in the Eastern Cape Province, and has its own distinctive warm-temperate seaweed flora, with... -
Thermal tolerances of littorinid snails from temperate and subtropical South Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Marine Science • Authors: CD McQuaid --- Rhodes University, South Africa TG Matumba --- Rhodes University, South AfricaEnvironmental temperature affects ectotherm performance and fitness because physiological performance increases up to a sublethal optimum temperature; this is not fixed, but depends on the species and individual history. We explored the influence of species identity, size and thermal history... -
The amphibians and reptiles of Ngel Nyaki Forest Reserve on the Mambilla Plateau of eastern Nigeria
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Denise Arroyo-Lambaer --- Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, México Lauren A Scheinberg --- , USA Jens V Vindum --- , USA Walter P Tapondjou --- University of Florida, USA Morgan G Davidson --- University of Florida, USA Hazel Chapman --- University of Canterbury, New Zealand David C Blackburn --- , USAThe herpetofauna of the montane forests of Taraba State in eastern Nigeria is poorly known. During the twentieth century, two short surveys of amphibian and reptile diversity were conducted on the Mambilla Plateau, but these did not generate a comprehensive...