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The quality of specimens obtained by fine-needle aspiration biopsy: does training make a difference?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: South African Family Practice • Authors: J Goedhals --- Department of Anatomical Pathology, J Thiart --- Department of Anatomical Pathology, G Joubert --- Department of Biostatistics, CA Wright --- Division of Anatomical Pathology,Background: The aim of this study was to determine the outcome of a one-hour training session on the correct technique of fine-needle aspiration biopsy (FNAB) by assessing adequacy of FNAB specimens received from clinicians at an academic hospital. -
Testing assertions of dietary specialisation: a case study of the diet of Aparallactus capensis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Bryan Maritz --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Aadam Rawoot --- University of the Western Cape, South Africa Ryan van Huyssteen --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThe lack of detailed natural history information required to precisely characterise the diets of many organisms often results in the use of generalised descriptions of those diets. These descriptions can become dogmatic, and should be challenged with novel observational data... -
Comments on the types and type localities of South African reptiles collected by Heinrich Bergius and Ludwig Krebs
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: AaronM. Bauer --- Villanova University, USAKarl Heinrich Bergius (1790–1818) and Georg Ludwig Engelhard Krebs (1792–1844) were German apothecaries living in South Africa who collected zoological material, including reptiles, for Martin Hinrich Carl Lichtenstein, director of the Zoological Museum of the Wilhelm-Friedrichs-Universität zu Berlin (ZMB). Although... -
Systematics of West African skinks in the Chalcides thierryi group: Composition, distribution, and redescription of types
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: Eli Greenbaum --- The University of Kansas, USAThe taxonomic status of the West African skink taxa Chalcides pulchellus and C. thierryi have fluctuated in the literature since their original descriptions a century ago. Until recently, C. pulchellus was known only from the holotype, but recent collecting has... -
A taxonomic revision of Arnot’s Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti (family Muscicapidae)
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Robert J Dowsett --- , France Sylke Frahnert --- Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Germany Françoise Dowsett-Lemaire --- , FranceArnot’s Chat Myrmecocichla arnotti in the family Muscicapidae is largely confined to the woodlands of the Zambezian biome of south-central Africa. This work assesses its taxonomic status, including comments on the so-called Ruaha Chat M. [a.] collaris (also named M... -
The challenge of using museum specimens to track the emergence of a pathogen: a case study from amphibian chytrid fungus in Africa
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of Herpetology • Authors: TM Doherty-Bone --- Natural History Museum London, M Perkins --- Zoological Society of London, AA Cunningham --- Zoological Society of London,Archived specimens can provide insights on emerging infectious diseases through the tracking of the progression or occurrence of a pathogen through time. Specimen fixation and preservation may however affect detectability of pathogens, obscuring the signal of emergence. A case study...