Paul H. Skelton

Paul H. Skelton, South African ichthyologist.

• South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 18 taxon names authored by Paul H. Skelton

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1990

• Skelton, P.H. & White, P.N. 1990. Two new species of Synodontis (Pisces: Siluroidei: Mochokidae) from southern Africa. Ichthyological Exploration of Freshwaters 1(3): 277–287. Reference page. 

1996

• Berrebi, P., Kottelat, M., Skelton, P. & Rab, P. 1996. Systematics of Barbus: State of the art and heuristic comments. Folia Zoologica 45: 5–12. Reference page. 

2011

• Eccles, D.H., Tweddle, D. & Skelton, P.H. 2011. Eight new species in the dwarf catfish genus Zaireichthys (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae). Smithiana, Publications in Aquatic Biodiversity 13: 3–28. PDF Reference page. 

2012

• Vari, R.P., Ferraris, C.J., Jr. & Skelton, P.H. 2012. New species of Congoglanis (Siluriformes: Amphiliidae) from the southern Congo River basin. Copeia, 2012 (4): 626–630. DOI: 10.1643/CI-12-029 Reference page. 

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

• Skelton, P.H., Swartz, E.R. & Vreven, E.J. 2018. The identity of Barbus capensis Smith, 1841 and the generic status of southern African tetraploid cyprinids (Teleostei, Cyprinidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 410: 1–29. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2018.410 Reference page. 

2020

• Stauffer, J.R. Jr., Bills, R., Skelton, P.H. & Weyl, O.L.F. 2020. Re-elevation to species level and redescription of Serranochromis jallae and Serranochromis robustus (Teleostei: Cichlidae). Zootaxa 4858(1): 126–134. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4858.1.9 Reference page. 

2021

• Stauffer, J.R. Jr., Bills, I.R. & Skelton, P.H. 2021. Four new species of Serranochromis (Teleostei: Cichlidae) from the Cuanza and Okavango river systems in Angola, including a preliminary key for the genus. Zootaxa 4908(1): 66–84. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4908.1.4 Reference page. 

2025

• Zarei, F., Bragança, P.H.N., Skelton, H. & Chakona, A. 2025. Pseudobarbus outeniqua sp. nov., a new redfin species (Teleostei, Cyprinidae) from the Cape Fold Ecoregion of South Africa. ZooKeys 231–255. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1239.131064 Reference page.