SAIAB specimen collections are historically of fishes. Whilst our frog specimen collection is progressing very well our literature holdings have been sparse.
Retired Professor Eddie van Dijk, resident in Stellenbosch, has now donated his life’s collection of African amphibian literature to SAIAB, comprising some 11,000 reprints, reports and books. This comprehensive collection is well organised, with an associated database, and forms a unique resource that complements our growing frog specimen collection.
He has compiled bibliographies on African Anura (frogs and river frog toads), African tadpoles, African fossil frogs, and African vertebrate ichnology (tracks and other trace fossils).
The following links are to bibliographies on his old website.
Bibliografie van Afrika Anura/Bibliography of African Anura - pdf (510 kByte)
Bibliografie van Afrika Anura/Bibliography of African Anura - txt (903 kByte)
Sleutel tot die afkortings in die Bibliografie/Key to the abbreviations in the Bibliography
Key to the fields in the Bibliography/Sleutel tot die velde in die Bibliografie
The development of an amphibian research collection at SAIAB
Roger Bills
Diversifying the natural history collection has been an on-going focus of curation at SAIAB..
Amietia vandijki
(Visser and Channing, 1997)
Van Dijk's River Frog
(Pic: de Villiers, A.L. Atlas and Red Data of the Frogs of South Africa, Lesotho and Swaziland)