Albert Chakona

Albert Chakona, South African ichthyologist

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.
Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, P.O Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.
E-mail: achakona@yahoo.com

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Chakona, A. & Skelton, P.H. 2017. A review of the Pseudobarbus afer (Peters, 1864) species complex (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) in the eastern Cape Fold Ecoregion of South Africa. ZooKeys 657: 109–140. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11076 Reference page.

Chakona, A., Kadye, W.T., Bere, T., Mazungula, D.N. & Vreven, E. 2018. Evidence of hidden diversity and taxonomic conflicts in five stream fishes from the Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands freshwater ecoregion. ZooKeys 768: 69–95. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.768.21944 Reference page.

Martin, M.B. & Chakona, A. 2019. Designation of a neotype for Enteromius pallidus (Smith, 1841), an endemic cyprinid minnow from the Cape Fold Ecoregion, South Africa. Zookeys, 848: 103–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.848.32211 Reference page.
Sullivan, J.P., Hopkins, C.D., Pirro, S., Peterson, R., Chakona, A., Mutizwa, T.I., Mulelenu, C.M., Alqahtani, F.H., Vreven, E. & Dillman, C.B. 2022. Mitogenome recovered from a 19th Century holotype by shotgun sequencing supplies a generic name for an orphaned clade of African weakly electric fishes (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae). Zookeys 1129ː 163–196. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1129.90287 Reference page.

Bragança, P.H.N., van Zeeventer, R.M., Bills, I.R., Tweddle, D. & Chakona, A. 2020. Diversity of the southern Africa Lacustricola Myers, 1924 and redescription of Lacustricola johnstoni (Günther, 1894) and Lacustricola myaposae (Boulenger, 1908) (Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae). ZooKeys, 923: 91–113. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.923.48420 Reference page.

Mutizwa, T.I., Kadye, W.T., Bragança, P.H.N., Bere, T. & Chakona, A. 2024. Hidden in the riffles: A new suckermouth catfish (Mochokidae, Chiloglanis) from the middle Zambezi River system, Zimbabwe. ZooKeys 1197: 57–91. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1197.114679 Reference page.