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.

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.