Publications - Sea Change Project

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Publications

Landschoff J, Lemaitre R (2024) Rediscovering the unusual Cancellus makrothrix Stebbing, 1924 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) in the “Great African Seaforest”. Zootaxa 5492(4), 530–544.

Senckenberg Ocean Species Alliance (SOSA), Brandt A, Chen C, Engel L, Esquete P, Horton T, Jazdzewska M, Johannsen N, Kaiser S, Kihara T C, Knauber H, Kniesz K, Landschoff J, Lörz A-N, Machado F M, Martínez-Muñoz C A, Riehl T, Serpell-Stevens A, Sigwart J D, Tandberg A H S, Tato R, Tsuda M, Voncina K, Watanabe H K, Wenz C, Williams J D (2024) Ocean Species Discoveries 1–12 — A primer for accelerating marine invertebrate taxonomy. Biodiversity Data Journal 12, e128431

Valentich-Scott P, Griffiths C, Landschoff J, Li R, Li J (2024) Bivalves of superfamily Galeommatoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from western South Africa, with observations on commensal relationships and habitats. ZooKeys 1207, 301–323.

Payne R P, Ngwakum B, Teske P R, Landschoff J, Samaai T (2024). The first hermit crab-associated sponge from South Africa, Suberites ambulodomus sp. nov. (Porifera, Demospongiae, Suberitida, Suberitidae), and its relationship with the hermit crab Pagurus liochele. Systematics and Biodiversity 22(1), 2346829.

Katharoyan C, Peer N, Landschoff J, Griffiths C L, Samaai T, Beeslaar D (2024). Kelp holdfasts in the Great African Seaforest provide habitat for diverse assemblages of macroinvertebrates. Aquatic Biology 33, 33–45.

Rossouw E I, Landschoff J, Ndhlovu A, Neef G, Miya M, Courtaillac K-L, Brokensha R, von der Heyden S (2024). Detecting kelp-forest associated metazoan biodiversity with eDNA metabarcoding. npj Biodiversity 3(4), 1–8.

Fee G N, Roura A, Emami-Khoyi A, Teske P R (2024). The complete mitochondrial genome of Octopus vulgaris. Molecular Biology Reports 51(21), 1–6.

Bullock R W, Foster C, Lea J S E (2024). Just keep swimming? Observations of resting behavior in gray reef sharks Carcharhinus amblyrhynchos (Bleeker, 1856). Journal of Fish Biology 104(3), 898–900.

Fee G N, Mather J, Landschoff J, Griffiths C L (2023) Finding the sweet spot: drilling precision on shelled molluscs by Octopus vulgaris type III in False Bay, South Africa. Marine Biology, 170(22), 1–8.

Archive

Mapstone G M, Foster C N, Gibbons M J (2022) First occurrence of the rare siphonophore Lilyopsis Chun, 1885 (Hydrozoa, Siphonophora, Prayinae) in South Africa. African Invertebrates 63(2), 121–130.

Wilcox M, Landschoff J, Griffiths C L (2022) Prevalence, population structure and burrow morphology of the kelp-boring amphipod Sunamphitoe roberta. African Journal of Marine Science 44(2), 181–187.

Gibbons M J, Haddock S H D, Matsumoto G I, Foster C (2021) Records of ctenophores from South Africa. PeerJ 12(9), e10697.

Brokensha R, Landschoff J, du Plessis A, Griffiths C L (2020) Redescription and notes on the ecology of Pagurapseudes dentatus (Brown, 1956) (Peracarida: Tanaidacea), a shell-inhabiting tanaid from South Africa. Journal of Crustacean Biology 40(6), 715–724.

Griffiths C L (2019) A new species of Sunamphitoe (Amphipoda: Amphithoidae) that bores into the primary fronds of kelps in South Africa. Journal of Crustacean Biology 39(4), 436–439.

Griffiths C L, Landschoff J (2018) Unique ‘spring-loaded’ gnathopod in the recently re-discovered and highly range-restricted estuarine amphipod Quadrivisio aviceps. African Journal of Marine Science 40(2), 219–224.

Wittmann K J, Griffiths C L (2017) Three new species of Heteromysis (Mysida, Mysidae, Heteromysini) from the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, with first documentation of a mysid-cephalopod association. ZooKeys 685, 15–47.

MacKinnon R B, Landschoff J, Griffiths C L (2017) Seasonality and 3D-visualization of brooding in the hermaphroditic ophiuroid Amphiura capensis. Invertebrate Biology 136(2), 146–158.

MacKinnon R B, Landschoff J, Griffiths C L (2016) Rediscovery and first South African records of the parasitic copepod Cancerilla oblonga Bartsch, 1975 (Crustacea, Cancerillidae). African Invertebrates 57(2), 105–109.

Landschoff J, Griffiths C L (2015) Three-dimensional visualisation of brooding behaviour in two distantly related brittle stars from South African waters. African Journal of Marine Science 37(4), 533–541.

Landschoff J, Griffiths C L (2015) Brooding behavior in the shallow-water brittle star Ophioderma wahlbergii. Invertebrate Biology 134(2), 168–179.