Research

Peer-reviewed Manuscripts

Baptista N.L, Pinto PV, Keates C., Edwards S., Roedel MO., & Conradie W. (2021). A new species of red toad, Schismaderma Smith, 1849 (Anura: Bufonidae), from central Angola. Zootaxa 5081(3), 301-332.
Lobon-Rovira J, Conradie W, Vaz Pinto P, Keates C, Edwards S, Du Plessis A, & Branch WR. (2022). Systematic revision of Afrogecko ansorgii (Boulenger, 1907) (Sauria: Gekkoni-dae) from western Angola. Zootaxa.
Nicolau, G. K., Petford, M., Edwards, S., Busschau, T., Lynch, K., Kemp, L., Balmer, J., Keates, C., Hundermark, C. R., Weeber, J., Conradie, W. (2021). New insights into the ge-ographical distribution, ecology and conservation status of South Africa’s endemic Coastal Leaf-toed Gecko, Cryptactites peringueyi (Boulenger, 1910) , Herpetology Notes, 14, 439-450.
Conradie W, Baptista NL, Verburgt L, Keates C, Harvey J, Júlio T, Neef G. (2021). Contribu-tions to the herpetofauna of the Angolan Okavango: Cuando-Zambezi river drainages. Part 1: Serpentes (snakes). Amphibian & Reptile Conservation 15(2) [General Section]: 244–278 (e292).
Conradie, W., Keates, C., Lobón-Rovira, J., Pinto, P. V., Verburgt, L., Baptista, N. L., … & Júlio, T. (2020). New insights into the taxonomic status, distribution and natural history of De Witte’s Clicking Frog (Kassinula wittei Laurent, 1940). African Zoology, 55(4), 311-322.
Conradie, W., Deepak, V., Keates, C., & Gower, D. J. (2020). Kissing cousins: a review of the African genus Limnophis Günther, 1865 (Colubridae: Natricinae), with the description of a new species from north-eastern Angola. African Journal of Herpetology, 69(1), 79-107.
Keates, C., Conradie, W., Greenbaum, E., & Edwards, S. (2019). A snake in the grass: Genetic structuring of the widespread African grass snake (Psammophylax Fitzinger 1843), with the description of a new genus and a new species. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research, 57(4), 1039-1066.
Branch, W. R., Baptista, N., Keates, C., & Edwards, S. (2019). Rediscovery, taxonomic status, and phylogenetic relationships of two rare and endemic snakes (Serpentes: Psammophiinae) from the southwestern Angolan plateau. Zootaxa, 4590(3), 342-366.

Peer-reviewed Book Chapters

Cuthbert RN, Wasserman RJ, Keates C and Dalu T. (2022). Food webs. Dalu T & Wasserman RJ (Eds.). Fundamentals of Tropical Freshwater Wetlands: From Ecology to Conservation Management (pp. 517-547). Elsevier.

Conferences

13th Herpetological Association of Africa Conference (2017). Hluhuwe, RSA. Poster presentation

Joint SANBI & FBIP Forum (2018). St Francis, RSA. Oral presentation

14th Herpetological Association of Africa Conference (2019). St Francis, RSA. Oral Presentation and mini oral presentation

9th World Congress of Herpetology Conference (2020). Dunedin, NZ. Oral Presentation

Southern African Society of Aquatic Scientists Conference (2021), Virtual conference. Oral presentation

Chad Keates

Dr Chad Keates: Post Doctoral Fellow in Wetland Ecology Lab at Rhodes University doing molecular systematics and ecology on African herpetofauna.

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