Feb 12, 2019 | New Species
Two new legless lizard species from the genus Acontias from the Mpumalanga Escarpment were recently described by Werner Conradie and colleagues. These species live under rocks in mountain grasslands and feed on termites. Type material is deposited at Port Elizabeth...
Feb 12, 2019 | New Species
A new species of tangle-veined fly was described in the journal Zootaxa from the Hantam National Botanical Garden, Nieuwoudtville, Bokkeveld Plateau, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. The species is a narrow-range endemic and is restricted to the Nieuwoudtville...
Feb 12, 2019 | New Species
Sinelobus stromatoliticus sp. nov., a tanaidacean (small shrimp-like animal) living within laminated stromatolites along the South African coastline, has been described. A revised key to all the species currently recognised within this genus is also provided. The type...
Dec 10, 2018 | Latest, Uncategorized
Applications: Applications for travel grants are invited from researchers in South Africa and internationally specifically to assist with the identification / verification of identifications of specimens for the following taxa: Plants: Fabaceae Animals: Mammals,...
Oct 17, 2018 | New Species
A new species of polychaete (bristle worm), Rhynchospio mzansi, was recently described from the south coast of South Africa. The specimens were collected from sediment within the effluent outflow from an abalone farm bear Gansbaai, South Africa. The name of the new...
Jul 20, 2018 | New Species
First tetrapods of Africa lived within the Devonian Antarctic The first African fossils of Devonian tetrapods (four-legged vertebrates) show these pioneers of land living within the Antarctic circle, 360 million years ago. The evolution of tetrapods from fishes during...
May 16, 2018 | New Species
A new study published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society has increased the diversity of southern African horseshoe bats by three species. One (named Rhinolophus gorongosae) appears to occur only in Gorongosa National Park in Mozambique and possibly also...
Apr 19, 2018 | New Species
Werner Conradie and colleagues recently described four new species of frogs from the genus Nothophryne. Previously only found in southern Malawi, it was recently found that at least four new species occur from four different inselbergs in northern Mozambique. Read...
Apr 19, 2018 | New Species
A new species of wasp was recently published in the journal Atoll Research Bulletin. The authors provides the species richness of the flat wasp fauna from Cousine Island, Seychelles, and describes a new species Holepyris gaigherae. Holotype material is deposited at...
Apr 19, 2018 | New Species
A new hermit crab species, Diogenes albimanus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) was described from the coast of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa by Jannes Landschoff and Dwi Listyo Rahayu. High quality macro photographs, a high-resolution microCT scan of the whole animal,...
