Research

Macroevolution and comparative phylogenetics

Busschau, T., & Boissinot, S. (2022). Habitat determines convergent evolution of cephalic horns in vipers. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 135(4), 652-664.

Comparative phylogeography

Busschau, T., Jordaan, A., Conradie, W., & Daniels, S. R. (2022). Pseudocongruent phylogeography reflects unique responses to environmental perturbations in a biodiversity hotspot. Journal of Biogeography, 49(3), 445-459.

Phylogeography and systematics

Daniels, S. R., Busschau, T., Gullacksen, G., Marais, H., Gouws, G., & Barnes, A. (2023). Cryptic and widespread: a recipe for taxonomic misidentification in a freshwater crab species (Decapoda: Potamonautidae: Potamonautes sidneyi) as evident from species delimitation methods. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 197(4), 1005-1033.

Busschau, T., Conradie, W., & Daniels, S. R. (2021). One species hides many: Molecular and morphological evidence for cryptic speciation in a thread snake (Leptotyphlopidae: Leptotyphlops sylvicolus Broadley & Wallach, 1997). Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 59(1), 195-221.

Busschau, T., Conradie, W., & Daniels, S. R. (2019). Evidence for cryptic diversification in a rupicolous forest-dwelling gecko (Gekkonidae: Afroedura pondolia) from a biodiversity hotspot. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 139, 106549.

Daniels, S. R., Busschau, T., & Cumberlidge, N. (2019). Two new species of freshwater crabs of the genus Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae) from the forests of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Journal of Crustacean Biology, 39(4), 426-435.

Conradie, W., Busschau, T., & Edwards, S. (2018). Two new species of Acontias (Acontinae, Scincidae) from the Mpumalanga Highveld escarpment of South Africa. Zootaxa, 4429(1), 89-106.

Busschau, T., Conradie, W., Jordaan, A., & Daniels, S. R. (2017). Unmasking evolutionary diversity among two closely related South African legless skink species (Acontinae: Acontias) using molecular data. Zoology, 121, 72-82.

Short communications

Serrano, F. C., Díaz‐Ricaurte, J. C., Busschau, T., & Ping, T. (2022). Mix and match: New records of interspecific amplexus among South African frogs, with a review of sub‐Saharan Africa. African Journal of Ecology.

Nicolau, G. K., Petford, M., Edwards, S., Busschau, T., Lynch, K., Kemp, L., ... & Conradie, W. (2021). New insights into the geographical distribution, ecology and conservation status of South Africa’s endemic Coastal Leaf-toed Gecko, Cryptactites peringueyi (Boulenger, 1910). Herpetology Notes, 14, 439-450.

Conradie, W., Busschau, T., & Jordaan, A. (2020). Does Nucras livida (Squamata: Lacertidae) occur along the West Coast of South Africa? A review of historical and recently collected material. Herpetology Notes, 13, 19-24.

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