Savel Regan Daniels

Savel Regan Daniels, South African carcinologist.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Daniels, S.R., Stewart, B.A. & Gibbons, M.J. 1998. Potamonautes granularis sp. nov. (Brachyura, Potamonautidae), a New Cryptic Species of River Crab from the Olifants River System, South Africa Crustaceana 71(8): 885-903. DOI: 10.1163/156854098X00905 Reference page.

Daniels, S.R., Stewart, B.A. & Burmeister, L. 2001: Geographic patterns of genetic and morphological divergence amongst populations of a river crab (Decapoda, Potamonautidae) with the description of a new species from mountain streams in the Western Cape, South Africa. Zoologica Scripta 30(3): 181–197. DOI: 10.1046/j.1463-6409.2001.00061.x Reference page.

Daniels, S.R., Mouton, P. Le F.N. & Du Toit, A. 2004. Molecular data suggest that melanistic ectotherms at the south-western tip of Africa are the products of Miocene climatic events: evidence from cordylid lizards. Journal of Zoology 263(4): 373–383. DOI: 10.1017/S0952836904005424 Reference page.

Daniels, S.R. & Bayliss, J. 2012. Neglected refugia of biodiversity: mountainous regions in Mozambique and Malawi yield two novel freshwater crab species (Potamonautidae: Potamonautes). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 164(3): 498–509. DOI: 10.1163/156854001750096256. Reference page.

Engelbrecht, H.M., Van Niekerk, A., Heideman, N.J.L. & Daniels, S.R. 2013. Tracking the impact of Pliocene/Pleistocene sea level and climatic oscillations on the cladogenesis of the Cape legless skink, Acontias meleagris species complex, in South Africa. Journal of Biogeography 40(3): 492–506. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.12024 Reference page.
Phiri, E.E. & Daniels, S.R. 2013. Hidden in the highlands: the description and phylogenetic position of a novel endemic freshwater crab species (Potamonautidae: Potamonautes) from Zimbabwe. Invertebrate systematics 27(5): 530–539. DOI: 10.1071/IS13012 Reference page.

Cumberlidge, N. & Daniels, S.R. 2014. Recognition of two new species of freshwater crabs from the Seychelles based on molecular evidence (Potamoidea: Potamonautidae). Invertebrate systematics, 28(1): 17–31. DOI: 10.1071/IS13017 . Reference page.
Daniels, S.R., Phiri, E.E. & Bayliss, J.L. 2014: Renewed sampling of inland aquatic habitats in southern Africa yields two novel freshwater crab species (Decapoda: Potamonautidae: Potamonautes). Zoological journal of the Linnean Society 171(2): 356–369. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12139 Reference page.
Murienne, J., Daniels, S.R., Buckley, T.R., Mayer, G. & Giribet, G. 2014. A living fossil tale of Pangean biogeography. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 281(1775): 20132648. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2013.2648 Reference page.
Phiri, E.E. & Daniels, S.R. 2014. Disentangling the divergence and cladogenesis in the freshwater crab species (Potamonautidae: Potamonautes perlatus sensu lato) in the Cape Fold Mountains, South Africa, with the description of two novel cryptic lineages. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 170(2): 310–332. DOI: 10.1111/zoj.12103 Reference page.

Cumberlidge, N., Naskrecki, P. & Daniels, S.R. 2016. Potamonautes gorongosa, a new species of potamonautid freshwater crab (Decapoda, Brachyura) from Mozambique, southeastern Africa. Nauplius 24. Reference page.
Giribet, G., Boyer, S.L., Baker, C.M., Fernández, R., Sharma, P., de Bivort, B.L., Daniels, S.R.., Harvey, M.S. & Griswold, C.E. 2016. A molecular phylogeny of the temperate Gondwanan family Pettalidae (Arachnida, Opiliones, Cyphophthalmi) and the limits of taxonomic sampling. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 178: 523–545. Reference page.

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. DOI: 10.1016/j.zool.2016.11.005 Reference page.
Daniels, S.R. 2017a. Sympatric colour morphs or distinct taxa? Examining species boundaries among two South African freshwater crabs (Decapoda: Potamonautidae: Potamonautes MacLeay, 1838), with the description of a new species. Journal of Crustacean Biology 37(6): 723-731. DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/rux087 Reference page.

Ng, P.K.L. & Daniels, S.R. 2018. A new species of trogloplacine crab of the genus Australocarcinus Davie, 1988 from a freshwater stream in Mahé, Seychelles (Crustacea, Brachyura, Chasmocarcinidae). ZooKeys 738: 27–35. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.738.23708. Reference page.
Nielsen, S.V., Daniels, S.R., Conradie, W., Heinicke, M.P. & Noonan, B.P. 2018. Multilocus phylogenetics in a widespread African anuran lineage (Brevicipitidae: Breviceps) reveals patterns of diversity reflecting geoclimatic change. Journal of Biogeography 45(9): 2067–2079. DOI: 10.1111/jbi.13394 Reference page.

Kullenkampf, K., van Zyl, F., Klaus, S. & Daniels, S.R. 2019. Molecular evidence for cryptic species in the common slug eating snake Duberria lutrix lutrix (Squamata, Lamprophiidae) from South Africa. Zookeys 838: 133–154. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.838.32022 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.