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Transvaal Museum - Vertebrate Research
South Africa
Mrs Teresa Kearney
Mammals
Is busy with a PhD, that is a systematic revision of the genera Pipistrellus and Eptesicus (Microchiroptera: Verspertilionidae) in southern Africa. I've used bacula, G-banded chromosomes (paper still to be accepted) and shape (busy with analysis) and traditional morphometrics (still to start analysis of measurements).
On the sideline I have several other papers in various states of completion - Laephotis (long-eared bats) systematics using traditional morphometrics. A more detailed paper on bacula, and tragi of several vesper bat species (together with E. Kearney) a new locality records for Eptesicus hottetotus in South Africa.
1. On the bats caught at Messina Nature Reserve. Bats caught at Itala Nature Reserve.
2. Bats caught in the Cederberg, Cape. I'm interested in continuing the bacula analysis, looking at other species in the bat collection.
Tshifhiwa Mandiwana
Ornithology
Is at the moment busy with her Ph.D. research project, which focuses on the systematics of both African Francolins and a few selected Spurfowls as known today. This project will take the responsibility of studying both between and within species relationships given the multiple data sets, which will be incorporated. Morphological, behavioural and also molecular approach is of interest in this project. Particular attention will be given to the two species groups, which are Red-winged Francolins and Vermiculated Spurfowls, which share some common patterns of species distributions. Molecular data will allow comparison of the relative timing of the divergences between the two species groups. The data which are in the process of being generated will help clarify the traditional taxonomic hypotheses about relationships among species as well as within the putative species groups as suggested in Halls (1963) monograph.
Red-winged Francolin
Cape Spurfowl