Senior Aquatic Biologist

Email
Tel : +27 46 603 5828
Fax : +27 46 622 2403
PBag 1015, Grahamstown, 6140
South Africa

Research Interests

Marine fish systematics
Biology and ecology of marine fishes
History of ichthyology in South Africa

   

Programmes

• Apogonidae: phylogenetics and taxonomy
• Revision of Fishes of the Southern Ocean (Gon & Heemstra, 1990)
• Systematics and conservation biology of estuarine gobies
• The history of systematic ichthyology in South Africa
• Systematics and taxonomy of Mormyridae
• Reproductive biology of the Clinidae
• Systematics and antifreeze attributes of sub-antarctic notothenioid fishes
• Western Indian Ocean marine fish biogeography and phylogeography

Collaboration

• Conservation International  
• Museums and Art Galleries of the Northern Territory
• University of Regensburg
• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign