Peer-reviewed publications by SAIAB Scientists, Honorary Research Associates and Postgraduate Students using SAIAB’s address - 2025.
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Ackland, S., Andersen, M., Kock, A., Van Blerk, D., Ariefdien, R., & Robinson, T. (2025). First record of the marine alien bryozoan Amathia verticillata (delle Chiaje, 1822) in South Africa. BioInvasions Records, 14(1), 183–196.
https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2025.14.1.15
Adams, N. J., Tsipa, N. V., Van Niekerk, N. L., James, N. N., Lamberth, N. S., Madikizela, N. B., Riddin, N. T., Rishworth, N. G., Snow, N. G., Strydom, N. N., Taljaard, N. S., & Da Lemley, N. (2025). Health assessment and restoration options for the degraded Swartkops Estuary, South Africa. Water SA, 51(2 April).
https://doi.org/10.17159/wsa/2025.v51.i2.4142
Ahmed, D. A., Sousa, R., Bortolus, A., Aldemir, C., Angeli, N. F., Błońska, D., Briski, E., Britton, J. R., Cano‐Barbacil, C., Clark‐Ginsberg, A., Culic, I., Cuthbert, R. N., Dick, J., Dimarco, R. D., Essl, F., Everts, T., García‐Berthou, E., Hauer, M., Kouba, A., . . . Haubrock, P. J. (2025). Parallels and discrepancies between non‐native species introductions and human migration. Biological Reviews/Biological Reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society.
https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.70004
Aluwihare, Y. C., Fernando, S., Gunasinghe, M. S., Ranasinghe, C., S, R. M. A., Weerakoon, T., Haputhantri, S. S. K., Jayasinghe, P. K., Lisher, M. W., & Psomadakis, P. N. (2025). First confirmed record of adult Pacific squaretail, Tetragonurus pacificus (Teleostei: Perciformes: Stromateoidei) from the Indian Ocean, with an expanded description. Zootaxa, 5604(1), 41–51.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5604.1.4
Armitage, A. R., Dittmann, S., Jones, A., Kelleway, J. J., Madikizela, B., O’Connor, J., Porri, F., Rogers, K., Waycott, M., Whitcraft, C., & Adams, J. B. (2025). Global complexities and challenges in the restoration of hypersaline coastal wetlands. Cambridge Prisms Coastal Futures, 1–24.
https://doi.org/10.1017/cft.2025.1
Bacher, S., Ryan-Colton, E., Coiro, M., Cassey, P., Galil, B. S., Nuñez, M. A., Ansong, M., Dehnen-Schmutz, K., Fayvush, G., Fernandez, R. D., Hiremath, A. J., Ikegami, M., Martinou, A. F., McDermott, S. M., Preda, C., Vilà, M., Weyl, O. L. F., Aravind, N. A., Angelidou, I., . . . Zengeya, T. A. (2025b). Global Impacts Dataset of Invasive Alien Species (GIDIAS). Scientific Data, 12(1).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-025-05184-5
Bailey, L. A., Childs, A. R., James, N. C., Duncan, M. I., Pringle, B. A., & Potts, W. M. (2025). Assessing individual physiological variability and future performance phenotypes is essential for predicting the resilience of fish populations to anthropogenic climate change. Conservation Physiology, 13(1).
https://doi.org/10.1093/conphys/coaf043
Baso, N. C., Bownes, A., Hill, M., & Coetzee, J. A. (2025). Modelling the distribution of a submerged invasive macrophyte and its potential biological control agent in invaded ranges. Hydrobiologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-025-05835-z
Baso, N. C., Hill, M. P., Bownes, A., & Coetzee, J. A. (2025). Systematic review and meta-analysis of the Enemy Release Hypothesis as applied to aquatic plants. Aquatic Botany, 103866. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aquabot.2025.103866
Bilton, D. T., Mlambo, M. C., & Balke, M. (2025). A new species of Anacaena Thomson, 1859 from the Cederberg Range, South Africa (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae). Zootaxa, 5613(1), 165–170. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5613.1.8
Bogorodsky, S. V., Muto, N., Hata, H., Motomura, H., & Alpermann, T. J. (2025). Review of the Mackerel Genus Rastrelliger (Teleostei: Scombridae) with Redescription of R. chrysozonus (Rüppell, 1836) and R. kanagurta (Cuvier, 1816). Diversity, 17(1), 72.
https://doi.org/10.3390/d17010072
Boulêtreau, S., Vagnon, C., Comte, L., Sagouis, A., Pool, T., Stiling, R. R., Harrod, C., South, J., McIntosh, A. R., Perga, M., Sánchez-Hernández, J., Roussel, J., Tunney, T. D., Jackson, M., Olden, J. D., & Cucherousset, J. (2025). IsoFresh: A global stable isotope database of freshwater food webs. Knowledge and Management of Aquatic Ecosystems, 426, 15.
https://doi.org/10.1051/kmae/2025010
Cajiao-Mora, K., Dutton, H. R., Jacobs, F. J., Beytell, P. C., Netherlands, E. C., DuPreez, L. H., & Bullard, S. A. (2025b). Supplemental description of Stephanoprora ornata Odhner, 1902 (Digenea: Echinochasmidae) infecting the Nile crocodile, Crocodylus niloticus (Crocodylidae) from Namibia with emendation of Mesorchis Dietz, 1909 and a phylogenetic analysis. Journal of Helminthology, 99. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x25000100
Carneiro, L., Leroy, B., Capinha, C., Bradshaw, C. J. A., Bertolino, S., Catford, J. A., Camacho-Cervantes, M., Bojko, J., Klippel, G., Kumschick, S., Pincheira-Donoso, D., Tonkin, J. D., Fath, B. D., South, J., Manfrini, E., Dallas, T., & Courchamp, F. (2025). Typology of the ecological impacts of biological invasions. Trends in Ecology & Evolution.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tree.2025.03.010
Carpenter, M., Cullain, N., Daly, R., Smith, G., Dicken, M., Dames, V., Griffiths, C. L., & Marshall, A. D. (2025). Preliminary insights into manta ray (Mobula alfredi and M. birostris) population demographics and distribution in South Africa. Environmental Biology of Fishes.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10641-024-01639-7
Conradie, W., Hundermark, C., Kemp, L., & Keates, C. (2025). New Pygmy Gecko (Goggia: Gekkonidae) from the arid Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Zootaxa, 5618(4), 552–570. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5618.4.5
Da Luz, A. N., Correia, S. M., Lopes, E. P., Jimenez, J. G., Traore, D., & Psomadakis, P. N. (2025). A new species of the genus Mystriophis (Anguilliformes: Ophichthidae) from Cabo Verde (Eastern Central Atlantic), with notes on two Mystriophis specimens documented on the R/V Dr. Fridtjof Nansen. Zootaxa, 5632(2), 293–308.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5632.2.4
Daly, R., Murray, T. S., Roberts, M. J., Schoeman, D. S., Lubitz, N., Barnett, A., Cedras, R., Bolaji, D. A., Brokensha, G. M., Noury, P. M. L., Forget, F., & Venables, S. K. (2025). Breaking barriers: Transoceanic movement by a bull shark. Ecology, 106(5).
https://doi.org/10.1002/ecy.70096
Debaere, S. F., Weideli, O. C., Daly, R., Milanesi, E. M. C., Trujillo, J. E., Bouyoucos, I. A., Mourier, J., Chin, A., Planes, S., De Boeck, G., & Rummer, J. L. (2025). The costs and healing rates of minor injuries in neonatal reef sharks. Journal of Fish Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.16059
Du Preez, L., Netherlands, E., & Minter, L. (2025). A new Rain Frog (Anura: Brevicipitidae; Breviceps ) from the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, South Africa. African Journal of Herpetology, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2025.2478896
Elliott, M., & Whitfield, A. K. (2025). Science and management achieving connectivity, coherence and equivalence to ensure the health of estuarine fish communities. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 109133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109133
Esmaeili, H. R., Zarei, F., Sadeghi, R., Sholeh, V., Sadeghi, Y., & Hashemi, S. H. (2025). Hidden in plain sight: new morpho-molecular data on the cryptic tropical sand goby, Favonigobius reichei (Bleeker, 1854) (Teleostei: Gobiidae: Gobiinae) from the northwestern Indian Ocean. Marine Biodiversity, 55(1).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12526-024-01498-6
Green, A., Cooper, J., Draycott, H., & Loureiro, C. (2025). Stratigraphy, evolution and morphology of a sand-rich shoreface. Geomorphology, 109884.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2025.109884
Green, A., Heeralal, T., Cooper, J., Labuschagne, H., & Meltzer, L. (2025). Genesis and preservation of composite (Miocene to Holocene) gravel deposits on the accommodation-limited continental shelf of south-central Namibia. Marine Geology, 107517.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2025.107517
Gusha, N. M., & McQuaid, C. D. (2024). Traits without boundaries: The environmental influence on biological traits across an intertidal region. Journal of Sea Research, 102559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2024.102559
Harrison, T. D., & Whitfield, A. K. (2025). A global trophic analysis of estuary-associated fishes. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-024-09916-5
Hata, H., Lavoué, S., Psomadakis, P. N., Osmany, H. B., & Motomura, H. (2025). Thrissina mystica sp. nov., a new thryssa (Teleostei: Clupeiformes: Engraulidae: Coiliinae) from the northern Indian Ocean. Ichthyological Research.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10228-025-01023-0
Holmes, M., Campbell, E., & Taylor, J. (2025). The spatial distribution patterns of freshwater diatom species in the southern Karoo related to their associated environmental conditions. South African Journal of Botany, 184, 154–166.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2025.05.008
Holmes, M., Campbell, E., De Wit, M., & Taylor, J. (2025). Preliminary checklist for freshwater diatom species of the Karoo, South Africa. Bothalia, 55(1).
https://doi.org/10.38201/abc.v55.3
Ikegwuoha, N. P. P., Hanekom, T., Booysen, E., Jason, C., Parker‐Nance, S., Davies‐Coleman, M. T., Van Zyl, L. J., & Trindade, M. (2025). Fimsbactin Siderophores From a South African Marine Sponge Symbiont, Marinomonas sp. PE14‐40. Microbial Biotechnology, 18(5).
https://doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.70155
Irion, D. T., Jewell, O. J. D., Towner, A. V., Fahmi, Fischer, G. C., Gennari, E., Stewart, M., Tyminski, J. P., & Kock, A. A. (2025). Transoceanic dispersal and connectivity of a white shark (Carcharodon carcharias) between southern Africa and Southeast Asia. Wildlife Research, 52(6).
https://doi.org/10.1071/wr24145
Jagger, C. E., Potts, W. M., Pringle, B. A., Bordbar, M. H., Henriques, R., McKeown, N. J., & Wilhelm, M. R. (2025). Growth rate extremes of a Sciaenid in an ocean-warming hotspot. Fisheries Research, 285, 107366. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2025.107366
Kisekelwa, T., Alimasi, W., Joyeuse, M., Kubota, M., Muzungu, H., Mulega, A. M., Lemmens, P., Vreven, E., Snoeks, J., Masilya, M., Bouillon, S., & Lejeune, B. (2025). Insight into trophic niche differentiation in Labeobarbus (Cyprinidae) in the Luhoho Basin (Upper Congo Basin). Ecology and Evolution, 15(4).
https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.71171
Langlois, T., Spencer, C., Gibbons, B. A., Griffin, K. J., Adams, K., Aston, C., Barrett, N., Bastiaansen, A., Beach, D., Bernard, A., Bond, T., Carey, G. R., Caselle, J. E., Cieri, K., Cummins, G. H., Cure, K., De Lestang, S., Fitzhardinge, J., Giraldo‐Ospina, A., . . . Monk, J. (2025). Benthic Observation Survey System (BOSS) for surveys of marine benthic habitats. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.
https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210x.70010
Le, A. H., Nguyen, H. V., Van Hoang, H., Tran, T. A., Nguyen, C. N., Nguyen, B. N., Nguyen, H. T., Greiman, S. E., Stauffer, J. R., Madsen, H., & Nguyen, M. H. (2025). Hydropower reservoirs – their potential association with transmission of trematodes in Vietnam. Journal of Helminthology, 99.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022149x2400097x
Roux, C. L., Cook, C. A., Netherlands, E. C., Truter, M., & Smit, N. J. (2025). Molecular and morphological characterisation of one known and three new species of fish parasitic Trypanosoma Gruby, 1843 from the South Coast of South Africa. Parasitology, 1–52.
https://doi.org/10.1017/s0031182025000496
Li, S. (2024b). Application of the European Non-native Species in Aquaculture Risk Analysis Scheme to evaluate Micropterus nigricans in China. Management of Biological Invasions, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2025.16.1.10
Mann, B. Q., Dunlop, S., Kyle, R., Jordaan, G. L., & Daly, R. (2025). Movement patterns of grey grunter Pomadasys furcatus (Pisces: Haemulidae) in the iSimangaliso Marine Protected Area, South Africa. African Zoology, 1–8.
https://doi.org/10.1080/15627020.2025.2494581
Mkhize, T., Adams, J., Parker-Nance, S., & James, N. (2025). HABITAT USE BY JUVENILE FISH IN MACROALGAE AND SEAGRASS BEDS IN a TEMPERATE SOUTH AFRICAN SEASCAPE. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 109258.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109258
Mourier, J., Murray, T. S., Lennox, R. J., & Birnie‐Gauvin, K. (2025). Advances in telemetry approaches and technologies applied to fish ecology and management. Journal of Fish Biology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70064
Mungenge, C. P., Wasserman, R. J., Mlambo, M. C., Dondofema, F., Keates, C., Bute, T. F., & Dalu, T. (2025). Diversity of large branchiopods (Anostraca, Notostraca, Spinicuadata) in semi-arid temporary pans of North West Province, South Africa, including a new record for South Africa. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 45(2).
https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruaf032
Mutizwa, T. I., Bere, T., Kadye, W. T., Bragança, P. H. N., & Chakona, A. (2025). Description of two new species of Chiloglanis (Teleostei, Mochokidae) from the Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands freshwater ecoregion: an overlooked hotspot of rheophilic fishes. ZooKeys, 1241, 261–290.
https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1241.138917
Mutshekwa, T., Mulaudzi, F., Maiyana, V. P., Mofu, L., Munyai, L. F., & Murungweni, F. M. (2025). Atmospheric deposition of microplastics in urban, rural, forest environments: A case study of Thulamela Local Municipality. PLoS ONE, 20(3), e0313840.
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0313840
Mutshekwa, T., Motitsoe, S. N., Maiyana, V. P., Mofu, L., Ajay, K., & Phophi, L. (2025). Microplastic occurrence and densities in small subtropical reservoirs of Southern Africa. Discover Sustainability, 6(1). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43621-025-00928-0
Mutshekwa, T., Motitsoe, S. N., Naidoo, T., Majingo, Z., & Mlambo, M. C. (2025). Plastics underground: microplastic pollution in South African freshwater caves and associated biota. Hydrobiologia. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-025-05800-w
Ndaba, J., Cotiyane-Pondo, P., Human, L., Puccinelli, E., Pieterse, P., Pattrick, P., & Porri, F. (2025). Diatom colonisation and biofilm metal bioaccumulation: Can Indigenous Knowledge Systems aid the ecological engineering of urban coastlines? Ecological Engineering, 219, 107696.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoleng.2025.107696
Ndaleni, P., & Mofu, L. (2025). Age and growth of the invasive bluegill Lepomis macrochirus (Rafinesque, 1810) from the Howison’s Poort Dam Eastern Cape, South Africa. African Journal of Aquatic Science, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.2989/16085914.2025.2457744
Nomxego, L., Kjesbu, O., Sauer, W., & Lipinski. (2025). Spatial and temporal distribution of shallow-water hake Merluccius capensis off the south coast of South Africa. African Journal of Marine Science, 1–10. https://doi.org/10.2989/1814232x.2025.2498907
Oduro, C., Sian, K. T. C. L. K., Hagan, D. F. T., Babaousmail, H., Ayugi, B. O., Wu, Y., Dalu, T., & Wu, N. (2025). The influence of land surface temperature on Ghana’s climate variability and implications for sustainable development. Scientific Reports, 15(1).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-86585-9
Onomu, A. J., Slater, M. J., & Vine, N. G. (2025). The effect of diet on the growth and energy budget of juvenile Neostichopus grammatus. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.2025.2519562
Orrell, D. L., Andrzejaczek, S., Armstrong, A. O., Martins, A. B., Branco, I., Charvet, P., Chin, A., Elston, C., Espinoza, M., Greenway, E. S. I., Phillips, S. R. M., Mickle, M. F., Murray, T. S., Silva, J. F., Thorburn, J., & Wosnick, N. (2025d). Current methods and best practice recommendations for skate and ray (Batoidea) research: capture, handling, anaesthesia, euthanasia, and tag attachment. Reviews in Fish Biology and Fisheries. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11160-024-09918-3
Phaka, F. M., Hugé, J., Ravhuanzwo, F., Vanhove, M. P., & Du Preez, L. H. (2025). Naming South African frogs and reptiles in nine Indigenous languages. African Journal of Herpetology, 1–18. https://doi.org/10.1080/21564574.2024.2441663
Pichegru, L., Makoala, M., Barham, B. J., Barham, P. J., Dalton, D., Ludynia, K., Freeman, M., Geldenhuys, D., Hagen, C., Harris, G., Kock, A., Lawrence, C., McGeorge, C., McInnes, A. M., Makhado, A. B., Malan, T., Masotla, M. J., Milne, R., Muller, H., . . . Waller, L. J. (2025). A decade of implementing the Biodiversity management plan for African penguins – successes, failures and lessons learnt. Journal for Nature Conservation, 126919. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnc.2025.126919
Sayer, C. A., Fernando, E., Jimenez, R. R., Macfarlane, N. B. W., Rapacciuolo, G., Böhm, M., Brooks, T. M., Contreras-MacBeath, T., Cox, N. A., Harrison, I., Hoffmann, M., Jenkins, R., Smith, K. G., Vié, J., Abbott, J. C., Allen, D. J., Allen, G. R., Barrios, V., Boudot, J., . . . Darwall, W. R. T. (2025). One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction. Nature.
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08375-z
Schwarzhans, W. W., Psomadakis, P. N., & Nielsen, J. G. (2025). Revision of the bathydemersal fish genus Pycnocraspedum (Ophidiidae; Teleostei), with description of two new species. Zootaxa, 5636(3), 443–472. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5636.3.2
Shikwambana, P., Foxcroft, L. C., Bouwman, H., Botha, J., & Taylor, J. C. (2025). Contrasting Microplastic Characteristics in Macroinvertebrates from Two Independent but Adjacent Rivers in Kruger National Park, South Africa. Water, 17(11), 1579.
https://doi.org/10.3390/w17111579
Singini, E. J., & Baso, N. C. (2025). Land use change, invasive species, and climate change: Drivers of biodiversity decline across IUCN conservation categories. South African Journal of Botany, 180, 730–739. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sajb.2025.03.048
Snyman, A., Purves, A., Kock, A., Mashau, M. H., Rodgers, F., & Ludynia, K. (2025). The first record of Cape Clawless Otters Aonyx capensis predating on African Penguins Spheniscus demersus. Ostrich, 1–5. https://doi.org/10.2989/00306525.2025.2510461
Swanepoel, N. P., Barkhuizen, N. L., Ellender, N. B., Van As, N. L., & Weyl, N. O. (2025). Social demographic patterns and participation in the Gariep Dam fishery, South Africa, during the Covid-19 pandemic. Water SA, 51(1 January).
https://doi.org/10.17159/wsa/2025.v51.i1.4095
Swanepoel, N. P., Barkhuizen, N. L., Ellender, N. B., Van As, N. L., & Weyl, N. O. (2025b). Temporal trends in fisher catch and effort, and the impact of Covid-19 on inland fisheries: a case study from Gariep Dam, South Africa. Water SA, 51(1 January).
https://doi.org/10.17159/wsa/2025.v51.i1.4096
Taylor, J. C., & Cocquyt, C. (2025). Eunotia elliotii sp. nov. (Eunotiaceae, Bacillariophyta) from the Republic of the Congo, central Africa. Phytotaxa, 705(1), 97–105.
https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.705.1.8
Taylor, J. C., & Cocquyt, C. (2025a). Two new Eunotia species (Eunotiaceae, Bacillariophyta) from the Yangambi Biosphere Reserve, Democratic Republic of the Congo. Phytotaxa, 704(1), 49–59. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.704.1.4
Van Niekerk, A., Tarrant, J., Armstrong, A. J., & Du Preez, L. H. (2025). Kickboxing Kloof Frogs: Territoriality, Female Parental Care and Other Reproductive Behaviours of Natalobatrachus bonebergi. African Journal of Ecology, 63(1).
https://doi.org/10.1111/aje.70011
Verneau, O., Quinn, D., Smith, K. G., Malone, J. H., & Du Preez, L. (2025). Role of Trachemys scripta elegans in polystome (Platyhelminthes, Monogenea, Polystomatidae) spillover and spillback following the trade of freshwater turtles in southern Europe and North America. Parasite, 32, 30.
https://doi.org/10.1051/parasite/2025022
Welsh, S. A., Cincotta, D. A., Owens, N. V., & Stauffer, J. R. (2025). Endemic and Invasive Species: A history of distributional trends in the fish fauna of the Lower New River Drainage. Water, 17(2), 221. https://doi.org/10.3390/w17020221
Whitfield, A. K. (2025). Biology and ecology of the ubiquitous estuarine clupeid Gilchristella aestuaria from southern Africa. Journal of Fish Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70087
Whitfield, A. K., Harrison, T. D., & Tweedley, J. R. (2025). Comparisons between estuary-associated ichthyofaunas in ecoregions around the Indian Ocean. Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, 109335. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2025.109335
Woodford, D. J., Magoro, M., Kadye, W. T., Scheepers, M., Sithole, Y., Mutizwa, T. I., Ntokoane, T., & Chakona, A. (2025). Freshwater fishes of the Waterberg aquatic ecoregion, South Africa: Diversity, taxonomic conflicts and conservation concerns. Journal of Fish Biology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jfb.70007
Zarei, F., Jufaili, S. M. A., Béarez, P., Ponton, D., Pruvost, P., & Chakona, A. (2025). Beyond Oman’s shores: records of Oxyurichthys omanensis (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the central and southern regions of the Western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa, 5633(3), 513–527.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5633.3.5
Zarei, F., Sithole, Y., Schliewen, U., Bills, R., & Chakona, A. (2025). Integrative systematics of the taxonomically complex gobiid genus Glossogobius Gill, 1859 (Teleostei: Gobiidae) from the south-western Indian Ocean, with a description of a new species. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 203(4).
https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaf023
Zarei, F., Esmaeili, H. R., Sayyadzadeh, G., Masoumi, A. H., & Hashemi, S. H. (2025). Hidden goby diversity of the Western Indian Ocean region: Glossogobius laticeps (De Vis, 1884) (Teleostei: Gobiidae). Zootaxa, 5584(4), 581–591.
https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5584.4.9
Zarei, F., Mathebula, X., & Chakona, A. (2025). Pseudobarbus kubhekai sp. nov., a new redfin (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 101(1), 1–16. https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.101.134080
Zarei, F., Bragança, P. H. N., Skelton, P. H., & Chakona, A. (2025). Pseudobarbus outeniqua sp. nov., a new redfin species (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) from the Cape Fold Ecoregion of South Africa. ZooKeys, 1239, 231–255. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1239.131064