Charles L. Griffiths

Charles L. Griffiths, South African marine biologist

Professor, Zoology Department, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch 7700, South Africa

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Griffiths, C.L. 1973. The amphipoda of Southern Africa. I.The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of southern Moçambique. Annals of the South African Museum 60(10): 265–306. BHL Reference page.

Griffiths, C.L. 1974. The Amphipoda of Southern Africa. 2. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of South West Africa south of 20°S. Annals of the South African Museum 62(6): 169–208.
Griffiths, C.L. 1974. The Amphipoda of Southern Africa. 3. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of Natal. Annals of the South African Museum 62(7): 209–264, figs: 1–8.
Griffiths, C.L. 1974. The Amphipoda of Southern Africa. 4. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of the Cape Province East of Cape Agulhas. Annals of the South African Museum 65: 251–336.

Griffiths, C.L. 1975. The Amphipoda of Southern Africa. 5. The Gammaridea and Caprellidea of the Cape Province west of Cape Agulhas. Annals of the South African Museum 67(5): 91–181.

Griffiths, C.L. 1976. Some new and notable Amphipoda from southern Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 72: 11–35. PDF Reference page.
Griffiths, C.L. 1976. Guide to the benthic marine Amphipods of Southern Africa. Trustees of the South African Museum, Cape Town. 106 pp.

Griffiths, C.L. 1977. Deep-sea amphipods from west of Cape Point South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 73(4): 93–104. Reference page.
Griffiths, C.L. 1977. The South African Museum's Meiring Naude Cruises. Part 6. Amphipoda. Annals of the South African Museum 74(4): 105–123. Reference page.

Griffiths, C.L. 1979. A redescription of the kelp curler Ampithoe humeralis (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from South Africa and its relationships to Macropisthopous. Annals of the South African Museum 79(5): 131–138; 3 figs.;.

Griffiths, C.L. 1981. The freshwater Amphipoda (Crustacea) of South and West Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 83: 79–87.

Griffiths, C.L. 1989. The Ingolfiellidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of southern Africa, with descriptions of two new species. Cimbebasia 11: 59–70.

Griffiths, C.L. 1991. Two new crangonyctoid amphipods from southern African caves (Crustacea). |Cimbebasia 13: 81-89.
Griffiths, C.L. 1991. A new ingolfiellid (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from subterranean waters in western Namibia. Cimbebasia 13: 75–79,.

Griffiths, C.L. & Steward, B.A. 1996. Two new freshwater amphipods from South Africa (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Bollettino del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona 20(1): 75–87.

Griffiths, C.L. 1999. The terrestrial amphipods (Crustacea, Amphipoda) of South Africa. Annals of the South African Museum 105(8): 345–362.

Lanterbecq, D., Hempson, T., Griffiths, C. & Eeckhaut, I. 2009. Myzostoma fuscomaculatum (Myzostomida), a new myzostome species from False Bay, South Africa. Hydrobiologia 619(1): 145–154. DOI: 10.1007/s10750-008-9606-7 Reference page.

Olbers, J.M., Rowe, F.W.E., Griffiths, C., Samyn, Y. 2014. The rediscovery of a collection of echinoderms, including two holotypes, in the Durban Natural Science Museum, South Africa. Durban Museum Novitates. 36: 11–29.Reference page.

Payne, R.P., Griffiths, C.L., Heyden, S. von der & Koch, E. 2015. The cushion–star Parvulastra exigua in South Africa: one species or more? Zookeys 524: 1–16. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.524.6145 Reference page.
Olbers, J.M., Samyn, Y. & Griffiths, C.L. 2015. New or notable records of brittle stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) from South Africa. African Natural History 11(1): 83-116. DOI: 10.17159/2305-7963/2015/v11n1a3 Reference page.

Biccard, A. & Griffiths, C.L. 2016. Additions to the barnacle (Crustacea: Cirripedia) fauna of South Africa. African Zoology 51(2): 99–116. DOI: 10.1080/15627020.2016.1196610 Reference page.
Laird, M.C. & Griffiths, C.L. 2016. Additions to the South African sea anemone (Cnidaria, Actiniaria) fauna, with expanded distributional ranges for known species. African Invertebrates 57(1): 15–37. DOI: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.57.8459. Reference page.
MacKinnon, R.B., Landschoff, J. & Griffiths, C.L. 2016. Rediscovery and first South African records of the parasitic copepod Cancerilla oblonga Bartsch, 1975 (Crustacea, Cancerillidae). African Invertebrates 57(2): 105–109. DOI: 10.3897/AfrInvertebr.57.9775. Reference page.

Filander, Z. & Griffiths, C.L. 2017. Illustrated guide to the echinoid (Echinodermata: Echinoidea) fauna of South Africa. Zootaxa 4296(1): 1–72. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4296.1.1. Reference page.
Lerner, H., Christidis, L., Gamauf, A., Griffiths, C.L., Haring, E., Huddleston, C.J., Kabra, S., Kocum, A., Krosby, M., Kvaløy, K., Mindell, D.P., Rasmussen, P.C., Røv, N., Wadleigh, R., Wink, M. & Gjershaug, J.O. 2017. Phylogeny and new taxonomy of the Booted Eagles (Accipitriformes: Aquilinae). Zootaxa 4216(4): 301–320. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.4.1. Full article (PDF) Reference page.
Miranda, L.S., Branch, G.M., Collins, A.G., Hirano, Y.M., Marques, A.C. & Griffiths, C.L. 2017. Stalked jellyfishes (Cnidaria: Staurozoa) of South Africa, with the description of Calvadosia lewisi sp. nov. Zootaxa 4227(3): 369–389. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4227.3.5.Reference page.
Wittmann, K.J. & Griffiths, C.L. 2017. Three new species of Heteromysis (Mysida, Mysidae, Heteromysini) from the Cape Peninsula, South Africa, with first documentation of a mysid-cephalopod association. ZooKeys 685: 15—47. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.685.13890. Reference page.

Landschoff, J., Komai, T., du Plessis, A., Gouws,G., Griffiths, C.L. 2018. MicroCT imaging applied to description of a new species of Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae), with selection of three-dimensional type data. PLoS ONE. 13(9): e0203107. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0203107 Reference page.

Griffiths, C.L. 2019. A new species of Sunamphitoe (Amphipoda: Ampithoidae) that bores into the primary fronds of kelps in South Africa. Journal of Crustacean Biology 39(4): 436–439.
Filander, Z., Samyn, Y. & Griffiths, C.L. 2019. Four notable additions to the South African echinoid fauna (Echinodermata, Echinoidea). Zookeys, 831: 71–80. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.831.31381 Reference page.
Olbers, J.M., Griffiths, C.L., O’Hara, T.D., Samyn, Y. 2019. Field guide to the brittle and basket stars (Echinodermata: Ophiuroidea) of South Africa. Abc Taxa. 19: 1–354. Online.Reference page.

Botha, T.P. & Griffiths, C.L. 2021. South African Acrothoracica (Crustacea: Cirripedia). Zootaxa 4949(1): 45–78. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4949.1.3 Reference page.

Valentich-Scott, P., Griffiths, C., Landschoff, J., Li, R-Q. & Li, J-C. 2024. Bivalves of superfamily Galeommatoidea (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from western South Africa, with observations on commensal relationships and habitats. ZooKeys 1207: 303–323. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1207.124517 Reference page.