List of works - Nico J. Smit

A New Gnathiid (Crustacea: Isopoda) Parasitizing Two Species of Requiem Sharks from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

article

A first for Southern Africa: description of a new Heterobothrium (Monogenea: Diclidophoridae) parasitizing the evileye pufferfish Amblyrhynchotes honckenii (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae)

scientific article published on 08 January 2021

A new genus and species of fish parasitic cymothoid (Crustacea, Isopoda) from the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa, with a key to the externally attaching genera of Cymothoidae

scientific article

A new genus and species of fish parasitic cymothoid isopod (Crustacea) from Indian waters, with a key to the branchial-attaching cymothoid genera

article by Panakkool Thamban Aneesh et al published 20 October 2020 in Marine Biology Research

A new gnathiid (Crustacea: Isopoda) parasitizing two species of requiem sharks from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

scientific article published on 01 June 2008

A new lizard malaria parasite Plasmodium intabazwe n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Haemospororida: Plasmodiidae) in the Afromontane Pseudocordylus melanotus (Sauria: Cordylidae) with a review of African saurian malaria parasites

scientific article

A new species of gnathiid (Crustacea: Isopoda) parasitizing teleosts from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

scientific article

Adding one more to the list: A new species of Eniochobothrium (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) from the Oman cownose ray in South Africa

scientific article published in 2022

Alien freshwater fish parasites from South Africa: Diversity, distribution, status and the way forward.

scientific article published on 3 June 2017

An unusual intraerythrocytic parasite of Parablennius cornutus from South Africa

scientific article published in October 2003

Application of a Sediment Quality Index for the assessment and monitoring of metals and organochlorines in a premier conservation area

scientific article published on 23 August 2015

Assessment of DDT contamination in house rat as a possible bioindicator in DDT-sprayed areas from Ethiopia and South Africa.

scientific article published on September 2017

Bioaccumulation and human health risk assessment of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides in an apex aquatic predator from a premier conservation area

scientific article published on February 2016

Bioaccumulation and metal-associated biomarker responses in a freshwater mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, following short-term platinum exposure

scientific article published on 21 November 2018

Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants and their trophic transfer through the food web: Human health risks to the rural communities reliant on fish from South Africa's largest floodplain

scientific article published on 14 June 2019

Biodiversity of frog haemoparasites from sub-tropical northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article

Biomarker Responses in the Freshwater Shrimp Caridina nilotica as Indicators of Persistent Pollutant Exposure

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Biomarkers in tigerfish (Hydrocynus vittatus) as indicators of metal and organic pollution in ecologically sensitive subtropical rivers.

scientific article published on 5 April 2018

Ceratothoa retusa (Schiœdte & Meinert, 1883) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a variable species of fish parasitic marine isopod from the Indian Ocean

article

Checklist of acanthocephalan parasites of South Africa

article

Co-introduction of ancyrocephalid monogeneans on their invasive host, the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides (Lacepéde, 1802) in South Africa. ⬇️

scientific article published on 5 June 2017

Comparative histomorphological assessment of the testes of two Clarias species from the Okavango Delta Panhandle, Botswana.

scientific article

Concentrations and Human Health Risk Assessment of DDT and Its Metabolites in Free-range and Commercial Chicken Products from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

scientific article published on 24 July 2017

DNA barcoding of the medically important freshwater snail Physa acuta reveals multiple invasion events into Africa

scientific article published on 27 August 2018

Description of Gyrodactylus paludinosus sp. nov. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from the Straightfin Barb, Enteromius paludinosus (Peters, 1852), in South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 22 October 2021

Description of life stages, molecular characterisation as well as a new host and locality record of <i>Chonopeltis lisikili</i> Van As and Van As (1996) from Phongolo River, South Africa

scientific article published on 17 March 2021

Developing an Apicomplexan DNA Barcoding System to Detect Blood Parasites of Small Coral Reef Fishes

scientific article published on 10 April 2017

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) levels in rat livers collected from a malaria vector control region

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Drought-associated absence of alien invasive anchorworm, Lernaea cyprinacea (Copepoda: Lernaeidae), is related to changes in fish health. ⬇️

scientific article published on 3 February 2017

Elthusa nierstraszi nom. n., the replacement name for Elthusa parva (Nierstrasz, 1915), a junior secondary homonym of Elthusa parva (Richardson, 1910) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae)

scientific article

Elthusa winstoni sp. n. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a new fish parasitic isopod from Hawaii

scientific article (publication date: 15 March 2017)

Epizootic ulcerative syndrome - First report of evidence from South Africa's largest and premier conservation area, the Kruger National Park

scientific article published on 27 August 2019

First Record of the Water Mold Achlya bisexualis (Saprolegniaceae) Isolated from Ornamental Fish in South Africa

scientific article published on 25 November 2019

First observation of African tigerfish Hydrocynus vittatus predating on barn swallows Hirundo rustica in flight.

scientific article published on 19 December 2013

First report of nephrocalcinosis in a wild population of Mugil cephalus L. and Myxus capensis (Valenciennes).

scientific article published on 18 March 2013

Fish consumption from urban impoundments: What are the health risks associated with DDTs and other organochlorine pesticides in fish to township residents of a major inland city.

scientific article published on 13 February 2018

Global diversity of fish parasitic isopod crustaceans of the family Cymothoidae

scientific article

Gnathia aureamaculosa, a likely definitive host of Haemogregarina balistapi and potential vector for Haemogregarina bigemina between fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

scientific article published on 8 January 2013

Gnathia bermudensis (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae), a new species from the mesophotic reefs of Bermuda, with a key to Gnathia from the Greater Caribbean biogeographic region

scientific article

Gnathia marleyi sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from the Eastern Caribbean ⬇️

scientific article published on 6 July 2012

Gnathia trimaculata n. sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Gnathiidae), an ectoparasite found parasitising requiem sharks from off Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

scientific article

Hematozoa of teleosts from Lizard Island, Australia, with some comments on their possible mode of transmission and the description of a new hemogregarine species.

scientific article published in August 2006

Hemoproteids (Apicomplexa: Haemoproteidae) from South African tortoises (Cryptodira: Testudinidae).

scientific article published on 13 August 2010

Hepatozoon langii n. sp. and Hepatozoon vacuolatus n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) from the crag lizard (Sauria: Cordylidae) Pseudocordylus langi from the North Eastern Drakensberg escarpment, Eastern Free State, South Africa

scientific article (publication date: 22 January 2013)

Hepatozoon species (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) of African bufonids, with morphological description and molecular diagnosis of Hepatozoon ixoxo sp. nov. parasitising three Amietophrynus species (Anura: Bufonidae).

scientific article

High element concentrations are not always equivalent to a stressful environment: differential responses of parasite taxa to natural and anthropogenic stressors

scientific article published in 2022

Histological Confirmation of Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome in Two Cyprinid Species from Lake Liambezi, Zambezi Region, Namibia

article

Hooked on you: shape of attachment structures in cymothoid isopods reflects parasitic strategy

scientific article published on 08 November 2019

Human Health Risk from Consumption of Marine Fish Contaminated with DDT and Its Metabolites in Maputo Bay, Mozambique.

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Investigation of mRNA expression changes associated with field exposure to DDTs in chickens from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Laboratory and field studies on the use of artificial mussels as a monitoring tool of platinum exposure in the freshwater environment

scientific article published in 2021

Large allozyme variation within populations and isozyme differences between Clarias gariepinus and C. ngamensis from the Okavango Delta, Botswana

scholarly article by Herman van der Bank & Nico J. Smit published November 2007 in African Journal of Aquatic Science

Life cycle of Hepatozoon affluomaloti sp. n. (Apicomplexa: Haemogregarinidae) in crag lizards (Sauria: Cordylidae) and in culicine mosquitoes from South Africa

scientific article

Linking organochlorine exposure to biomarker response patterns in Anurans: a case study of Müller’s clawed frog (Xenopus muelleri) from a tropical malaria vector control region

scientific article published on 01 September 2018

Metal accumulation in riverine macroinvertebrates from a platinum mining region

scientific article published on 31 October 2019

Metal concentrations in Hydrocynus vittatus (Castelnau 1861) populations from a premier conservation area: Relationships with environmental concentrations

scientific article published on 19 March 2016

Molecular Detection of Tick-Borne Bacteria from Amblyomma (Acari: Ixodidae) Ticks Collected from Reptiles in South Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 28 September 2022

Molecular and morphological characterisation of four diplostomid metacercariae infecting Tilapia sparrmanii (Perciformes: Cichlidae) in the North West Province, South Africa

scientific article published on 25 March 2019

Molecular assessment of three species of Anilocra (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) ectoparasites from Caribbean coral reef fishes, with the description of Anilocra brillae sp. n.

scientific article

Molecular insights into the identification and phylogenetics of the cosmopolitan marine fish blood parasite, (Adeleorina: Haemogregarinidae)

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Monophyly of the species of Hepatozoon (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) parasitizing (African) anurans, with the description of three new species from hyperoliid frogs in South Africa.

scientific article

Morphological and molecular characterization of a marine fish trypanosome from South Africa, including its development in a leech vector

scientific article published on 24 January 2014

Morphological description and molecular characterisation of a new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from India

scholarly article published in 2021

New records of fish parasitic isopods of the gill-attaching genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 from the Virgin Islands, Caribbean, with description of a new species

scientific article

Novel distribution records and molecular data for species of Macrogyrodactylus Malmberg, 1957 (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) (Siluriformes: Clariidae) in southern Africa

scholarly article published in 2021

Novel information on the morphology, phylogeny and distribution of camallanid nematodes from marine and freshwater hosts in South Africa, including the description of Camallanus sodwanaensis n. sp

scientific article published on 30 September 2019

Observations on Babesiosoma mariae (Apicomplexa: Dactylosomatidae) from the Okavango Delta, Botswana ⬇️

scientific article published on March 1, 2003

Occurrence of Hepatozoon canis (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) and Anaplasma spp. (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae) in black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) in South Africa

scientific article published on 20 March 2018

Parasite diversity and community structure of translocated Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) in South Africa: Testing co-introduction, parasite spillback and enemy release hypotheses

scientific article published in 2023

Parasite diversity of African longfin eel Anguilla mossambica Peters with comments on host response to the monogenean Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae (Yin and Sproston).

scientific article

Parasites of cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes) in South Africa - a neglected field of marine science.

scientific article

Pathology associated with parasitic juvenile gnathiids feeding on the puffadder shyshark, Haploblepharus edwardsii (Voight)

scientific article

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediments from a typical urban impacted river: application of a comprehensive risk assessment

scientific article published on 5 February 2018

Preface to the special issue of the International Congress on Parasites of Wildlife, 15-18 September 2014, Kruger National Park, South Africa

scientific article

Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae (Yin & Sproston, 1948) from the giant mottled eel Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824, in the Phongolo River, South Africa: an invader on the African continent

scientific article published on 05 February 2021

Reassignment of the land tortoise haemogregarine Haemogregarina fitzsimonsi Dias 1953 (Adeleorina: Haemogregarinidae) to the genus Hepatozoon Miller 1908 (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) based on parasite morphology, life cycle and phylogenetic analysis o

scientific article published on 13 June 2014

Redescription and molecular characterisation of the fish ectoparasite Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), with description of six new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 from Africa

scientific article published on 01 August 2019

Redescription of poorly known species of Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae), based on original type material

scientific article

Redescription, molecular characterisation and taxonomic re-evaluation of a unique African monitor lizard haemogregarine Karyolysus paradoxa (Dias, 1954) n. comb. (Karyolysidae)

scientific article

Rediscovery of Chonopeltis meridionalis Fryer, 1964 (Crustacea: Branchiura) from Labeo rosae Steindachner in the River Olifants, Mpumalanga, and the taxonomic status of C. victori Avenant-Oldewage, 1991 and C. koki Van As, 1992.

scientific article published on 21 June 2017

Resolution of the identity of three species of Diplostomum (Digenea: Diplostomidae) parasitising freshwater fishes in South Africa, combining molecular and morphological evidence

scientific article published on 16 December 2019

Review of Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from southern Africa, with the description of a new species

journal article; published in African Zoology in 2015

Review of the fish parasitic genus Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of two new species

scientific article

Review of the fish parasitic genus Elthusa Schioedte & Meinert, 1884 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from South Africa, including the description of three new species

scientific article published on 23 April 2019

Review of the fish-parasitic genus Cymothoa Fabricius, 1793 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae, Crustacea) from the southwestern Indian Ocean, including a new species from South Africa

scientific article (publication date: 17 April 2013)

Revision of the fish parasitic genus Pleopodias Richardson, 1910 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), with the description of a new species and key to the genus

scientific article

Sea lice (Copepoda: Caligidae) from South Africa, with descriptions of two new species of Caligus ⬇️

scholarly article published in 2021

Seasonal Bioaccumulation of Organohalogens in Tigerfish, Hydrocynus vittatus Castelnau, from Lake Pongolapoort, South Africa

article

Taxonomic re-evaluation of the South African fish haemogregarine, Desseria fragilis

scientific article published in February 2003

The Application of Artificial Mussels in Conjunction with Transplanted Bivalves to Assess Elemental Exposure in a Platinum Mining Area

scientific article published in 2019

The butterfly effect: parasite diversity, environment, and emerging disease in aquatic wildlife

scientific article published on 3 December 2014

The curious life-style of the parasitic stages of Gnathiid isopods.

scientific article

The distribution and host-association of a haemoparasite of damselfishes (Pomacentridae) from the eastern Caribbean based on a combination of morphology and 18S rDNA sequences.

scientific article published on 25 May 2018

The life cycle of Haemogregarina bigemina (Adeleina: Haemogregarinidae) in South African hosts ⬇️

scientific article published on January 1, 2001

The neglected diversity: Description and molecular characterisation of <i>Trypanosoma haploblephari</i> Yeld and Smit, 2006 from endemic catsharks (Scyliorhinidae) in South Africa, the first trypanosome sequence data from sharks globally

scientific article published on 29 April 2021

The role of fish helminth parasites in monitoring metal pollution in aquatic ecosystems: a case study in the world's most productive platinum mining region

scientific article published on 18 July 2020

Threatened, host-specific affiliates of a red-listed host: Three new species of Acanthobothrium van Beneden, 1849 (Cestoda: Onchoproteocephalidea) from the endangered white skate, Rostroraja alba (Lacépède)

scholarly article published in 2022

Three new species of acanthocephalans (Palaeacanthocephala) from marine fishes collected off the East Coast of South Africa

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Three-dimensional visualisation of developmental stages of an apicomplexan fish blood parasite in its invertebrate host ⬇️

scientific article published on November 22, 2011

Total mercury concentrations in sharks, skates and rays along the South African coast

scientific article published in 2022

Trematode diversity in freshwater fishes of the Globe I: 'Old World'.

scientific article published on 22 February 2016

Two new species and new host and distribution records of Gnathia Leach, 1814 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from Western Australia and the Great Barrier Reef, Australia

scientific article published in 2024

Two new species of branchial fish parasitic isopod of the genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) from Nigeria

scholarly article published in 2021

Understanding growth relationships of African cymothoid fish parasitic isopods using specimens from museum and field collections

scientific article published on 05 February 2019

Unexpected response of a captive blackeye thicklip, Hemigymnus melapterus (Bloch), from Lizard Island, Australia, exposed to juvenile isopods Gnathia aureamaculosa Ferreira & Smit

article

Gnathia pipinde sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae), a temporary parasite of the pufferfish, Amblyrhynchotes honckenii, from temperate southern Africa ⬇️

scientific article published on 10 November 2022

List of works by Nico J. Smit

A New Gnathiid (Crustacea: Isopoda) Parasitizing Two Species of Requiem Sharks from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

A first for Southern Africa: description of a new Heterobothrium (Monogenea: Diclidophoridae) parasitizing the evileye pufferfish Amblyrhynchotes honckenii (Tetraodontiformes: Tetraodontidae)

A new genus and species of fish parasitic cymothoid (Crustacea, Isopoda) from the Indian Ocean coast of South Africa, with a key to the externally attaching genera of Cymothoidae

A new genus and species of fish parasitic cymothoid isopod (Crustacea) from Indian waters, with a key to the branchial-attaching cymothoid genera

A new gnathiid (Crustacea: Isopoda) parasitizing two species of requiem sharks from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

A new lizard malaria parasite Plasmodium intabazwe n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Haemospororida: Plasmodiidae) in the Afromontane Pseudocordylus melanotus (Sauria: Cordylidae) with a review of African saurian malaria parasites

A new species of gnathiid (Crustacea: Isopoda) parasitizing teleosts from Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

Adding one more to the list: A new species of Eniochobothrium (Cestoda: Lecanicephalidea) from the Oman cownose ray in South Africa

Alien freshwater fish parasites from South Africa: Diversity, distribution, status and the way forward.

An unusual intraerythrocytic parasite of Parablennius cornutus from South Africa

Application of a Sediment Quality Index for the assessment and monitoring of metals and organochlorines in a premier conservation area

Assessment of DDT contamination in house rat as a possible bioindicator in DDT-sprayed areas from Ethiopia and South Africa.

Bioaccumulation and human health risk assessment of DDT and other organochlorine pesticides in an apex aquatic predator from a premier conservation area

Bioaccumulation and metal-associated biomarker responses in a freshwater mussel, Dreissena polymorpha, following short-term platinum exposure

Bioaccumulation of persistent organic pollutants and their trophic transfer through the food web: Human health risks to the rural communities reliant on fish from South Africa's largest floodplain

Biodiversity of frog haemoparasites from sub-tropical northern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Biomarker Responses in the Freshwater Shrimp Caridina nilotica as Indicators of Persistent Pollutant Exposure

Biomarkers in tigerfish (Hydrocynus vittatus) as indicators of metal and organic pollution in ecologically sensitive subtropical rivers.

Ceratothoa retusa (Schiœdte & Meinert, 1883) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a variable species of fish parasitic marine isopod from the Indian Ocean

Checklist of acanthocephalan parasites of South Africa

Co-introduction of ancyrocephalid monogeneans on their invasive host, the largemouth bass, Micropterus salmoides (Lacepéde, 1802) in South Africa. ⬇️

Comparative histomorphological assessment of the testes of two Clarias species from the Okavango Delta Panhandle, Botswana.

Concentrations and Human Health Risk Assessment of DDT and Its Metabolites in Free-range and Commercial Chicken Products from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

DNA barcoding of the medically important freshwater snail Physa acuta reveals multiple invasion events into Africa

Description of Gyrodactylus paludinosus sp. nov. (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from the Straightfin Barb, Enteromius paludinosus (Peters, 1852), in South Africa ⬇️

Description of life stages, molecular characterisation as well as a new host and locality record of <i>Chonopeltis lisikili</i> Van As and Van As (1996) from Phongolo River, South Africa

Developing an Apicomplexan DNA Barcoding System to Detect Blood Parasites of Small Coral Reef Fishes

Dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) levels in rat livers collected from a malaria vector control region

Drought-associated absence of alien invasive anchorworm, Lernaea cyprinacea (Copepoda: Lernaeidae), is related to changes in fish health. ⬇️

Elthusa nierstraszi nom. n., the replacement name for Elthusa parva (Nierstrasz, 1915), a junior secondary homonym of Elthusa parva (Richardson, 1910) (Isopoda, Cymothoidae)

Elthusa winstoni sp. n. (Isopoda, Cymothoidae), a new fish parasitic isopod from Hawaii

Epizootic ulcerative syndrome - First report of evidence from South Africa's largest and premier conservation area, the Kruger National Park

First Record of the Water Mold Achlya bisexualis (Saprolegniaceae) Isolated from Ornamental Fish in South Africa

First observation of African tigerfish Hydrocynus vittatus predating on barn swallows Hirundo rustica in flight.

First report of nephrocalcinosis in a wild population of Mugil cephalus L. and Myxus capensis (Valenciennes).

Fish consumption from urban impoundments: What are the health risks associated with DDTs and other organochlorine pesticides in fish to township residents of a major inland city.

Global diversity of fish parasitic isopod crustaceans of the family Cymothoidae

Gnathia aureamaculosa, a likely definitive host of Haemogregarina balistapi and potential vector for Haemogregarina bigemina between fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Australia.

Gnathia bermudensis (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae), a new species from the mesophotic reefs of Bermuda, with a key to Gnathia from the Greater Caribbean biogeographic region

Gnathia marleyi sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae) from the Eastern Caribbean ⬇️

Gnathia trimaculata n. sp. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Gnathiidae), an ectoparasite found parasitising requiem sharks from off Lizard Island, Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Hematozoa of teleosts from Lizard Island, Australia, with some comments on their possible mode of transmission and the description of a new hemogregarine species.

Hemoproteids (Apicomplexa: Haemoproteidae) from South African tortoises (Cryptodira: Testudinidae).

Hepatozoon langii n. sp. and Hepatozoon vacuolatus n. sp. (Apicomplexa: Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) from the crag lizard (Sauria: Cordylidae) Pseudocordylus langi from the North Eastern Drakensberg escarpment, Eastern Free State, South Africa

Hepatozoon species (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) of African bufonids, with morphological description and molecular diagnosis of Hepatozoon ixoxo sp. nov. parasitising three Amietophrynus species (Anura: Bufonidae).

High element concentrations are not always equivalent to a stressful environment: differential responses of parasite taxa to natural and anthropogenic stressors

Histological Confirmation of Epizootic Ulcerative Syndrome in Two Cyprinid Species from Lake Liambezi, Zambezi Region, Namibia

Hooked on you: shape of attachment structures in cymothoid isopods reflects parasitic strategy

Human Health Risk from Consumption of Marine Fish Contaminated with DDT and Its Metabolites in Maputo Bay, Mozambique.

Investigation of mRNA expression changes associated with field exposure to DDTs in chickens from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

Laboratory and field studies on the use of artificial mussels as a monitoring tool of platinum exposure in the freshwater environment

Large allozyme variation within populations and isozyme differences between Clarias gariepinus and C. ngamensis from the Okavango Delta, Botswana

Life cycle of Hepatozoon affluomaloti sp. n. (Apicomplexa: Haemogregarinidae) in crag lizards (Sauria: Cordylidae) and in culicine mosquitoes from South Africa

Linking organochlorine exposure to biomarker response patterns in Anurans: a case study of Müller’s clawed frog (Xenopus muelleri) from a tropical malaria vector control region

Metal accumulation in riverine macroinvertebrates from a platinum mining region

Metal concentrations in Hydrocynus vittatus (Castelnau 1861) populations from a premier conservation area: Relationships with environmental concentrations

Molecular Detection of Tick-Borne Bacteria from Amblyomma (Acari: Ixodidae) Ticks Collected from Reptiles in South Africa ⬇️

Molecular and morphological characterisation of four diplostomid metacercariae infecting Tilapia sparrmanii (Perciformes: Cichlidae) in the North West Province, South Africa

Molecular assessment of three species of Anilocra (Isopoda, Cymothoidae) ectoparasites from Caribbean coral reef fishes, with the description of Anilocra brillae sp. n.

Molecular insights into the identification and phylogenetics of the cosmopolitan marine fish blood parasite, (Adeleorina: Haemogregarinidae)

Monophyly of the species of Hepatozoon (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) parasitizing (African) anurans, with the description of three new species from hyperoliid frogs in South Africa.

Morphological and molecular characterization of a marine fish trypanosome from South Africa, including its development in a leech vector

Morphological description and molecular characterisation of a new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Cymothoidae) from India

New records of fish parasitic isopods of the gill-attaching genus Mothocya Costa, in Hope, 1851 from the Virgin Islands, Caribbean, with description of a new species

Novel distribution records and molecular data for species of Macrogyrodactylus Malmberg, 1957 (Monogenea: Gyrodactylidae) from Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) (Siluriformes: Clariidae) in southern Africa

Novel information on the morphology, phylogeny and distribution of camallanid nematodes from marine and freshwater hosts in South Africa, including the description of Camallanus sodwanaensis n. sp

Observations on Babesiosoma mariae (Apicomplexa: Dactylosomatidae) from the Okavango Delta, Botswana ⬇️

Occurrence of Hepatozoon canis (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) and Anaplasma spp. (Rickettsiales: Anaplasmataceae) in black-backed jackals (Canis mesomelas) in South Africa

Parasite diversity and community structure of translocated Clarias gariepinus (Burchell) in South Africa: Testing co-introduction, parasite spillback and enemy release hypotheses

Parasite diversity of African longfin eel Anguilla mossambica Peters with comments on host response to the monogenean Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae (Yin and Sproston).

Parasites of cartilaginous fishes (Chondrichthyes) in South Africa - a neglected field of marine science.

Pathology associated with parasitic juvenile gnathiids feeding on the puffadder shyshark, Haploblepharus edwardsii (Voight)

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in sediments from a typical urban impacted river: application of a comprehensive risk assessment

Preface to the special issue of the International Congress on Parasites of Wildlife, 15-18 September 2014, Kruger National Park, South Africa

Pseudodactylogyrus anguillae (Yin & Sproston, 1948) from the giant mottled eel Anguilla marmorata Quoy & Gaimard, 1824, in the Phongolo River, South Africa: an invader on the African continent

Reassignment of the land tortoise haemogregarine Haemogregarina fitzsimonsi Dias 1953 (Adeleorina: Haemogregarinidae) to the genus Hepatozoon Miller 1908 (Adeleorina: Hepatozoidae) based on parasite morphology, life cycle and phylogenetic analysis o

Redescription and molecular characterisation of the fish ectoparasite Anilocra capensis Leach, 1818 (Isopoda: Cymothoidae), with description of six new species of Anilocra Leach, 1818 from Africa

Redescription of poorly known species of Ceratothoa Dana, 1852 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Cymothoidae), based on original type material

Redescription, molecular characterisation and taxonomic re-evaluation of a unique African monitor lizard haemogregarine Karyolysus paradoxa (Dias, 1954) n. comb. (Karyolysidae)

Gnathia pipinde sp. nov. (Crustacea, Isopoda, Gnathiidae), a temporary parasite of the pufferfish, Amblyrhynchotes honckenii, from temperate southern Africa ⬇️