African Zoology

African Zoology is a general zoology, peer reviewed journal that publishes research articles, short communications, topical reviews, book reviews as well as conference proceedings with some bearing on the African biodiversity.

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Official journal of the Zoological Society of Southern Africa

(continue Zoologica Africana and South African Journal of Zoology)

African Zoology is widely indexed in larger indexes, Biological Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, Current Advances in Biology & Molecular Biology, Elsevier Geoabstracts, Science Citation Index (ISI)(IF = 1.018), TEEL, Web of Science and Zoological Record.

African Zoology is accredited by the South African National Department of Education for measurement of research output of public higher education.




Vol 47, No 2 (2012)

Table of Contents

Articles

Lights out, let’s move about: locomotory activity patterns of Wagner’s gerbil (Gerbillus dasyurus) from the desert of Saudi Arabia PDF2
Aziz Al-Agaili, Osama Mohammed, Nigel Bennett, Maria Oosthuizen
Freshwater invertebrates of subantarctic Marion Island PDF2
Herbert John Dartnall, Valdon R Smith
Monogenean parasite species descriptions from Labeo spp. hosts in the Vaal Dam, South Africa, with a review of related parasite species PDF2
Dionne Craffort, Annemarie Avenant-Oldewage
Composition, abundance, distribution and seasonality of larval fishes in the Sundays Estuary, South Africa PDF2
K Sutherland, Nadine Strydom, T.H. Wooldridge
Invertebrates or iron: does large-scale opencast mining impact invertebrate diversity in ephemeral wetlands? PDF2
Falko Theo Buschke
Metabolic Disturbance and Hepatic Tissue damage Induced by Eimeria papillata Infection PDF2
Mohamed A Dkhil
Determining adrenocortical endocrine activity as a measure of stress in African buffalo (Syncerus caffer) based on faecal analysis PDF2
Andre Ganswindt, Adrian Tordiffe, Ed Stam, Mark Howitt, Ferran Jori
To run or hide?: escape behavior in a cryptic African snake PDF2
Bryan Maritz
The first record of Tardigrada from the Republic of Zambia, with a description of Doryphoribius niedbalai sp. nov. (Eutardigrada: Hypsibiidae, the evelinae group) PDF2
Krzysztof Piotr Zawierucha
The phylogeography of Lemniscomys striatus (Rodentia, Muridae) confirms a singular vicariance in neighbouring savannah populations in Central Gabon. PDF2
Jean-François Mboumba, Violaine Nicolas, Marc Colyn, Pierre Deleporte
Activity of the greater padloper (Homopus femoralis, Testudinidae) in relation to rainfall PDF2
Victor Loehr
Post-weaning social behaviour within mother–offspring groups of the bushveld gerbil Gerbilliscus leucogaster: implications for dispersal PDF2
Tracy Kim Lötter
Digestive physiology and caecal fermentative activity in the greater cane rat (Thryonomys swinderianus) PDF2
Magloire YAPI, Thierry GIDENNE, Yves FARIZON, Muriel SEGURA, Daniel ZONGO, Francis ENJALBERT
Breeding season of Epomophorus walhbergi in the lowveld of Swaziland PDF2
Ara Monadjem
Paraconcinnum leirsi n. sp. (Trematoda, Dicrocoeliidae) from rodents in Tanzania and its phylogenetic position within the dicrocoelids PDF2
Alexis Ribas, Rhodes H Makundi, Jöelle Goüy de Bellocq
Seasonal effects on digging activity and burrow architecture in the Cape dune mole-rat, Bathyergus suillus (Rodentia: Bathyergidae) PDF2
Hannah Grace Thomas, Phillip William Bateman, David Michael Scantlebury, Nigel Bennett

Short Communications

Introduced guppies being the first record of freshwater fish on the Cape Verdean archipelago PDF2
Kay Lucek, Mélissa Lemoine
isiXhosa name for leopard PDF2
JAMES MICHAEL FEELY
Blood plasma glucose regulation in Wahlberg’s epauletted fruit bat. PDF2
Bablawa Mqokeli, Colleen T Downs
New records of a threatened population of lion (Panthera leo) in a National Park in West Africa PDF2
Francesco Maria Angelici
Are scales suitable structures for ageing largemouth bass Micropterus salmoides in South Africa? PDF2
Geraldine Claire Taylor
Survey of gastrointestinal parasite infection in African lion (Panthera leo), African wild dog (Lycaon pictus) and spotted hyaena (Crocuta crocuta) in the Luangwa Valley, Zambia PDF2
Are Berentsen
A new species of Eimeria (Apicomplexa: Eimeriidae) from the Endangered Pink Pigeon, Nesoenas mayeri (Prévost, 1843) Cheke, 2005 (Columbiformes) in Mauritius PDF2
Stanley John Ball



ISSN 2224-073X (online) ; ISSN 1562-7020 (print)

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