Albert Chakona

Albert Chakona, South African ichthyologist

• South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Private Bag 1015, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.
• Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University, P.O Box 94, Grahamstown 6140, South Africa.
• E-mail: achakona@yahoo.com

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 3 taxon names authored by Albert Chakona

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2017

• Chakona, A. & Skelton, P.H. 2017. A review of the Pseudobarbus afer (Peters, 1864) species complex (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) in the eastern Cape Fold Ecoregion of South Africa. ZooKeys 657: 109–140. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.657.11076 Reference page. 

2018

• Chakona, A., Kadye, W.T., Bere, T., Mazungula, D.N. & Vreven, E. 2018. Evidence of hidden diversity and taxonomic conflicts in five stream fishes from the Eastern Zimbabwe Highlands freshwater ecoregion. ZooKeys 768: 69–95. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.768.21944 Reference page. 

2019

• Martin, M.B. & Chakona, A. 2019. Designation of a neotype for Enteromius pallidus (Smith, 1841), an endemic cyprinid minnow from the Cape Fold Ecoregion, South Africa. Zookeys, 848: 103–118. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.848.32211 Reference page. 
• Sullivan, J.P., Hopkins, C.D., Pirro, S., Peterson, R., Chakona, A., Mutizwa, T.I., Mulelenu, C.M., Alqahtani, F.H., Vreven, E. & Dillman, C.B. 2022. Mitogenome recovered from a 19th Century holotype by shotgun sequencing supplies a generic name for an orphaned clade of African weakly electric fishes (Osteoglossomorpha, Mormyridae). Zookeys 1129ː 163–196. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1129.90287 Reference page. 

2020

• Bragança, P.H.N., van Zeeventer, R.M., Bills, I.R., Tweddle, D. & Chakona, A. 2020. Diversity of the southern Africa Lacustricola Myers, 1924 and redescription of Lacustricola johnstoni (Günther, 1894) and Lacustricola myaposae (Boulenger, 1908) (Cyprinodontiformes, Procatopodidae). ZooKeys, 923: 91–113. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.923.48420 Reference page. 

2024

• Mutizwa, T.I., Kadye, W.T., Bragança, P.H.N., Bere, T. & Chakona, A. 2024. Hidden in the riffles: A new suckermouth catfish (Mochokidae, Chiloglanis) from the middle Zambezi River system, Zimbabwe. ZooKeys 1197: 57–91. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1197.114679 Reference page.