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MSc Focus: Global taxonomic crisis paves way for 26yr old UCT expert

MSc Focus: Global taxonomic crisis paves way for 26yr old UCT expert

Nov 4, 2021 | News

Rouane Brokensha finds it ‘strange’ to be considered the national expert on hermit tanaids. These are tiny shrimp-like marine creatures that live in empty snail shells. She has been assigned this status after just completing her honours year but owns it with the...
Alien ‘ecosystem engineer’ gaining ground at Cape estuary

Alien ‘ecosystem engineer’ gaining ground at Cape estuary

Mar 15, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized

A highly invasive ‘ecosystem engineer’ is gaining ground at Zandvlei Estuary in Cape Town, a study linked to the SeaKeys project has shown. Over a period of 25 years the alien reef-building polychaete Ficopomatus enigmatus (AKA the Australian tubeworm) population has...
Rediscovery and first SA record for parasitic copepod

Rediscovery and first SA record for parasitic copepod

Feb 16, 2018 | News, sustainability, Uncategorized

A parasitic copepod previously known only from Luderitz Bay in Namibia has been found on the coast of the Cape Peninsula, according to a SeaKeys study. “This discovery is the first record of any siphonostomatoid copepod infecting an invertebrate host in South Africa,”...

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