Darren W. Pietersen

Darren W. Pietersen, South African herpetologist and ornithologist.

• DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria, Hatfield, South Africa.

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2013

• Pietersen, D.W., Pietersen, E.W. & Haacke, W.D. 2013. First herpetological appraisal of the Parque Nacional de Banhine, Gaza Province, southern Mozambique. Annals of the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History 3: 153–163. abstract Reference page. 

2018

• Pietersen, D.W., Scholtz, C.H. & Bastos, A.D.S. 2018. Multi-locus phylogeny of southern African Acontias aurantiacus (Peters) subspecies (Scincidae: Acontinae) confirms the presence of three genetically, geographically and morphologically discrete taxa. Zootaxa 4442(3): 427–440. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4442.3.5 Reference page. 
• Pietersen D.W., McKechnie, A.E., Jansen, R., Little, I.T. & Bastos, A.D.S. 2018. Multi-locus phylogeny of African pipits and longclaws (Aves: Motacillidae) highlights taxonomic inconsistencies. Ibis 161(4): 781–792. DOI: 10.1111/ibi.12683 Reference page. 

2021

• Pietersen, D.W., Verburgt, L. & Davies, J.P. 2021. Snakes and other Reptiles of Zambia and Malawi. Cape Town: Penguin Random House South Africa. 376 pp. ISBN 978-1775847373.

2023

• Zhao, Z.-N., Conradie, W., Pietersen, D.W., Jordaan, A., Nicolau, G., Edwards, S., Riekert, S. & Heideman, N. 2023. Diversification of the African legless skinks in the subfamily Acontinae (Family Scincidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 182: 107747. DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107747 Reference page.