Peer-reviewed publications by SAIAB Scientists, Honorary Research Associates and Postgraduate Students using SAIAB’s address - 2025.
Open Access
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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. (2025b). 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
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
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
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