Gavin Gouws

Gavin Gouws, South African ichthyologist and carcinologist

South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity (SAIAB), Grahamstown, South Africa.
E-mail: g.gouws@saiab.ac.za

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Gouws, G., Stewart, B.A. & Coke, M. 2000. Evidence for a new species of river crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamonautidae) from the Drakensburg, South Africa. Journal of Crustacean Biology 20(4): 743–758. Reference page.

Gon, O., Allen, G.R., Erdmann, M.V. & Gouws, G. 2014. A new species of the cardinalfish genus Siphamia (Perciformes, Apogonidae) from West Papua, Indonesia. Zootaxa 3881(4): 328–340. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3881.4.2 Reference page.

Peer, N., Perissinotto, R., Gouws, G. & Miranda, N.A.F. 2015. Description of a new species of Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838, from the iSimangaliso Wetland Park, South Africa. ZooKeys 503: 23—43. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.503.9532. Reference page.

Peer, N., Gouws, G., Lazo-Wasem, E., Perissinotto, R. & Miranda, N.A.F. 2017. Redescription of Potamonautes sidneyi (Rathbun, 1904) (Decapoda, Potamonautidae) and description of a new congeneric species from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. ZooKeys 657: 1–28. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11623. Reference page.

Leslie, R.W., Gon, O. & Gouws, G. 2018. The taxonomic status of the South African straptail, Macruronus capensis Davies, 1950 (Pisces, Gadiformes, Macruronidae). Zootaxa 4374(1): 91–98. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4374.1.5 Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Landschoff, J., Komai, T., du Plessis, A., Gouws,G., Griffiths, C.L. 2018. MicroCT imaging applied to description of a new species of Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae), with selection of three-dimensional type data. PLoS ONE. 13(9): e0203107. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203107 Reference page.

Daniels, S.R., Barnes, A., Marais, H., Gouws, G. 2021. Surveys of Afrotemperate forests yields two new freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Potamonautidae: Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838) from South Africa. European Journal of Taxonomy. 782(1): 82–107. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2021.782.1591 Reference page.

Peer, N., Gouws, G., Maliwa, L., Barker, N.P., Juby, P. & Perissinotto, R. 2023. Description of a new montane freshwater crab (Arthropoda, Malacostraca, Decapoda, Potamonautidae) from the Eastern Cape, South Africa. Zookeys 1160ː 89–108. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1160.100844 Reference page.