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,...
Mar 3, 2018 | New Species
Four new species from the genus Kazimierzus were recently described from the Western and Northern Cape of South Africa, by Thembeka Nxele and her colleagues. All material are deposited at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, Pietermaritzburg, which houses the biggest Oligochaeta...
Mar 3, 2018 | New Species
A new reed frog species, Hyperolius stictus (Hyperoliidae) from the Coastal Forests of north-eastern Mozambique, was recently described by Werner Conradie and colleagues. The paper also includes acoustic and phylogenetic analyses. Type material is deposited at the...
Mar 3, 2018 | New Species
Recently two new species of Collembola (springtails) from the genus Friesea was dscribed from the Western Cape. One species, Friesea stevenchowni was collected from the Afromontane forest vegetation in Jonkershoek Nature Reserve, while a blind species, Friesea...
