INDEX TO COMMON NAMES

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A

ALDERFLIES

alga, Frog-spawn

Salt lake

Algae

colonial green

filamentous green

GREEN

RED

unicellular

alisma, Water

Amadumbe

amoebas

naked

testate

AMPHIBIANS

amphipod, Leaf-shredder

AMPHIPODS

cave

slender cave

Anabaena

ANGIOSPERMS

animalcule, slipper

sun

trumpet

Ankistrodesmus

aphid, Water lily

aphids

ARACHNIDS

arrowhead, Broadleafed

Arthrospira

Asterionella

avocet, Pied

B

backswimmer, Limpid

backswimmers

common

milky

pygmy

stout

BACTERIA

baetids, false pannote

hanging-gilled

stickleback

two-tailed waterfall

barb, Beira

Border

Chubbyhead

Hyphen

Orangefin

Red

Sicklefin

Straightfin

Threespot

bass

Largemouth

Smallmouth

Spotted

beetle, Cliff water

Myriophyllum leaf

Royal tiger

BEETLES

beetles, adorned diving

burrowing ground

burrowing water

crawling water

elongate water scavenger

false water

filter-feeder water scavenger

giant diving

giant water scavenger

ground

humpback water scavenger

Jesus

large riffle

long-toe water

longhorn leaf

marsh

marsh ground

minute moss

phytophilous

pigsnout diving

predaceous diving

rove

shore

shoreline dung

smaller riffle

speckled diving

tiger

toed-winged

true water

underwater scavenger

variegated mud-loving

water

water scavenger

whirligig

BIRDS

bishop, Southern red

bittern, Little

blacktail, Eastern

bladderwort, Yellow

bladderworts

Blepharisma

Bloodwort

bloodworts

bluegills

bluet, Swamp

bluetail, Tropical

bluets

bottlenose, Western

BRANCHIOPODS

Brass buttons

bream, Pink

BRYOZOANS

bryozoans, freshwater

buckbeans

BUGS

Bulldog

bullfrog, African

Giant

bullfrogs

bulrush, Short

Tall

bulrushes

burrower, Big-tusked wood

Mooi River

burrowers, common

rough-tusked

smoke-winged

buttercups

butterfly bushes

C

caco, Boettger’s

Bronze

Cape

Mountain

Namaqua

cacos

caddisflies

brushtail case-making

burrowing

common net-spinning

fingernet

limpet shell case-making

long-horned

micro-

net-tube

snail case-making

tube case net-spinning

Cape star

Carp

carrot plants

case makers, armoured ballast

barbarian tusk

golden tusk

lepidostomatid square

pisuliid triangular

saddle

catfish, Cave

Electric

Sharptooth

Silver

Snake

Stargazer mountain

catfishes, air-breathing

butter

electric

mountain

southern

catlet, Spotted sand

catlets, sand

centrocypris, arched

Ceratium

Chara

Chessa

chironia, Dwarf

Marsh

Chlamydomonas

choanoflagellates

Chroococcus

cichlids

ciliates

citharine, Dwarf

citril, Common

Cladophora

clams

clegs

clingers, fringed-sucker

Closterium

clubtails

coot, Red-knobbed

coots

COPEPODS

calanoid

cyclopoid

harpacticoid

cormorant, Cape

Reed

White-breasted

cormorants

Cosmarium

crab, Burrowing freshwater

Cape river

Sidney’s river

Spiked mountain river

Swamp forest freshwater

Warren’s river

CRABS

crake, Black

Blue

crane, Grey crowned

Wattled

Crane’s bill

cranes

crawlers, fringe-faced

Nadine’s

spiny

spiny-backed

stout

crayfish

Australian red claw

Red swamp

creepers, double-gilled pond

long-clawed sand

cricket, African mole

CRICKETS

pygmy mole

riffle

crocodile, Nile

crocodiles

cruiser, Darting

cruisers

crystalwort, Narrow

CYANOBACTERIA

cyclosorus, Swamp

Cyclotella

Cymbella

cypridids

cypridoids

cytheroids

D

daisies

daisy, Small purple

DAMSELFLIES

coenagrionid

damsels, stream

dancers, dainty sand

darter, African

darters

demoiselle, Glistening

demoiselles

desmids

Diatoma

DIATOMS

dicotyledons

Dileptus

DINOFLAGELLATES

distichodontids

dobsonflies

Dog-with-two-tails

DRAGONFLIES

dropwing, Jaunty

Navy

Orange-winged

Red-veined

Violet

duck, African black

Fulvous whistling

Knob-billed

Maccoa

White-backed

White-faced whistling

Yellow-billed

ducks

duckweed, Common

Fat

Greater

Rootless

duckweeds

duns, African sulphur

chestnut

E

eagle, African fish

earthworms

earwig, Tawny

EARWIGS

eel, Longfin

Longtail spiny

eels, freshwater

spiny

egret, Black

Cattle

Great

Little

Slaty

Yellow-billed

egrets

emperor, Blue

Orange

emperors

Euastrum

Euglena

EUGLENOIDS

F

fern, Creeping

Horsetail

Red water

FERNS

figworts

finfoot, African

finfoots

firefly, aquatic

FISHES

labyrinth

fishflies

flagellate, Pathogenic

flagellates

flamingo, Greater

Lesser

flamingos

flapwort, Large-leaved

flatheads, Gondwanan

flatworm, Ectoparasitic

FLATWORMS

mesostome

FLIES

aquatic snipe

black

crane

dance

deer

flower

frog

horse

long-legged

moth

muscid

phantom crane

primitive crane

shore

snail-killing

soldier

fluke, Bilharzia

Carp

Hippopotamus eye

Platanna

FLUKES

multi-host

one-host

flutterer, Phantom

Skylight

fly, drone

friartucks

frog-buttons, Fat

frog, Angolan reed

Argus reed

Arum lily

Banded rubber

Banded stream

Brown-backed tree

Cape ghost

Cape river

Clicking stream

Common river frog

Delicate leaf-folding

Dwarf grass

Eastern ghost

Golden leaf-folding

Greater leaf-folding

Kloof

Knysna leaf-folding

Large-nosed long reed

Long-toed tree

Maluti river

Marbled rubber

Mascarene grass

Micro

Montana marsh

Mottled shovelnosed

Natal cascade

Natal leaf-folding

Natal sand

Natal tree

Ornate

Painted reed

Phofung river

Pickersgill’s reed

Plain grass

Plain stream

Power’s long reed

Sharp-nosed grass

Snoring puddle

Southern foam nest

Spotted shovelnosed

Striped grass

Striped stream

Table mountain ghost

Tinker reed

Tremolo sand

Water lily

Yellow-striped reed

frogs, ghost

grass

leaf-folding

puddle

reed

river

rubber

sand

shovelnosed

stream

tree

G

galaxias

Cape

gallinule, Allen’s

gallinules

gastropods, operculate

pulmonate

GASTROTRICHS

geese

gentians

geraniums

germanderworts

ginger, Wild

gingers

gladiolus, Butterfly

glow caps

Goldtail

gomphocythere, Obtuse

Gomphonema

goose, African pygmy

Egyptian

Spur-winged

grass, Broad-leaved tape

Broom

Cut

Hedgehog

Red swamp

Seaside quick

Grasscarp

grasses

star

submerged water

tape

yellow-eyed

GRASSHOPPERS

grebe, Black-necked

Great-crested

Little

grebes

groundhoppers

groundling, Banded

grunter, Zambezi

grunters

gull, Grey-headed

gulls

H

HAIRYBACKS

Hamerkop

harrier, African marsh

hawker, Friendly

Stream

hawkers

heart, Floating

Yellow floating

heliozoans

helmet-heads, mountain

heron, Black-crowned night

Black-headed

Goliath

Grey

Purple

Squacco

Striated

herons

Hippopotamus

hooktail, Common

Rock

hornwort, Common (angiosperm)

hornwort, Smooth (embryophyte)

hornworts (angiosperms)

HORNWORTS (embryophytes)

hyacinths

hydra, Brown

Green

HYDRAS

I

ibis, African sacred

Glossy

Hadeda

ibises

Imberi

INVERTEBRATES, LESSER-KNOWN

irises

ISOPODS

ivies

J

jacana, African

Lesser

jack, Cornish

jellyfish, Common freshwater

Great Lakes

jewel, Dancing

jewelfish, Banded

jewels

K

Kapenta

Kariba weed

kassina, Bubbling

Red-legged

kassinas

killifish, Krysanov’s rainbow

Rainbow

Southern rainbow

killifishes

kingfisher, Giant

Malachite

Pied

kingfishers

kneria, Southern

knerias

knotweed, Floating

Spotted

knotweeds

kurper, Cape

L

labeo, Manyame

Redeye

lachenalia, Bachmann’s

lanistes, Egg-shaped

lapwing, Blacksmith

largemouth, Humpback

Lowveld

Thinface

lechwe, Red

leech, Common African

Marsupial

leeches

helobdellid

leptophlebiids, operculate-gilled

lice, fish

lilies

arum

water

lily, Fire

George

Ifafa

Marsh

Scarlet river

Vlei

White arum

White water

limpets

Burnup’s freshwater

freshwater

liverwort, Umbrella

LIVERWORTS

lizards

louse, Fish

lungfish, East-coast

lungfishes, African

M

malachite, Mountain

malachites

Mallard

MAMMALS

Marron

MAYFLIES

brushlegged

flat-headed

pop-eyed

prong-gill

small minnow

mayfly, Pop-eyed

MEDUSAS

melania, Banded

Crowned

Quilted

Red-rimmed

Merismopedia

Microcystis

Microspora

midges, biting

common

meniscus

net-winged

phantom

seepage

milkweed, River

milkweeds

minnow, Maloti

Southern barred

minnows

mites, beetle

water

Moggel

MOLLUSCS

mongoose, Marsh

monitor, Water

monocotyledons

moorhen, Common

moorhens

mosquitoes

Mosquitofish

moss animal, Cape

moss animals, ctenostomatid

fredericella

plumatella

moss, Clustered pocket

Lesser water

Ward’s stream

MOSSES

peat

mouthbrooder, Southern

mudfish, Orange River

mudfishes

Mudwort

Long-stemmed

mussel, African porcelain

Black-water

Cape river

Fingernail

Frames’ river

Orb

Wahlberg’s river

Zambezi river

mussels

black

orb

pea

porcelain

toothed river

toothless river

mustard flowers

N

Navicula

nematodes, Mosquito-parasitising

Nembwe

NEMERTEANS

freshwater

nerites

freshwater

Netrium

Nitella

Nomad

notodromadids

O

olives, African blue-winged

Oocystis

openbill, African

Oscillatoria

osprey, Western

ostracod, Hairy giant

OSTRACODS

otter, Cape clawless

Spotted-necked

oval-gills, African

oyster, African river

oysters, river

P

Palmiet

Pandorina

Pantala

Papermouth

paracypretta, Spiny

Parrot’s feather

paspalum, Couch

Giant

passerines

Pediastrum

pelican, Great white

Pink-backed

pelicans

pennywort, Kidney-shaped

Round

perch, Many-spined climbing

persicaria, Pale

pickerel, Heart-shaped

Weed

weeds

pike, Southern

pikes, African

pila, Western

pineapple flower, Giant

pipewort, River

pipeworts

planarians

plantain, Broad-leaved

plantains

PLANTS, FLOWERING

platanna, Cape

Common

platannas

plover, Kittlitz’s

Three-banded

pochard, Southern

poker, River

pokers, red-hot

pom-pom, Vlei

pondweed, Broad-leaved

Fennel-leaved

Submerged

Wavy-leaved

pondweeds

prawn, Hairy river

prawns

PROKARYOTES

prong-gills, common

smooth-clawed

PROTISTS

PROTOZOANS

Puku

python, Southern African

R

rail, African

rat, Angoni vlei

Greater cane

Vlei

Water

redfin, Burchell’s

Clanwilliam

Eastern Cape

reed, Acute

Common

Giant

Thatching

Reedbuck

REPTILES

restio, Broom

restios

rhacocarp, Purple-tipped

rhubarb, Wild

rhubarbs

river stars

robber, Silver

robbers

rock-catfish, Clanwilliam

romulea, Aquatic

rotifers, box-like

jumping

retractile

sheathed

roundworm, Microfilarial

ROUNDWORMS

Ruff

rush, Creeping

Prickly

Rigid

Sharp-tipped

Soft

rushes

S

sandfish, Clanwilliam

sardine, River

sardines, freshwater

Saucer bug

saucer bugs

flat

Sawfin

scarlet, Broad

Little

Scenedesmus

sebaea, Yellow flowered

sedge, Clustered round

Coastal river

Drooping

Dune-slacked

Golden

Hanging

Jointed flat

Loose river

Papyrus

Rigid

Round-headed

Round-tipped

Salt-marsh

Saw

Sharp-tipped

Smooth flat

Soft cylindrical

Tall cylindrical

Tall slender

Tall star

Vlei

Water

Winged

sedges

septaria, Réunion island

September browns

shelduck, South African

shore bugs

spiny

velvet

white-spotted

shorebirds

shoveler, Cape

shrew, Swamp musk

shrimp, Brine

Cape clam

Freshwater

Purcell’s fairy

Tadpole

Wolf’s fairy

shrimps

brine

clam

fairy

shield

Sitatunga

Skimmer (bird), African

Skimmer (dragonfly), Epaulet

Julia

Long

skimmers (birds)

skimmers (dragonflies)

snail, Amber

Bristled river

Common pond

Mouse-eared

Pfeiffer’s ramshorn

Ribbed ramshorn

Sewage

Small pond

snails

amber

apple

bladder

bubble

hollow-shelled

melania

pond

ramshorn

river

sentinel

small ramshorn

vlei

snake, Common brown water

Green water

Many-spotted

Olive marsh

snakes

snipe, African

snoutfishes

Southern Churchill

spider, Boyd’s long-jawed water

Common fish-eating

South African water wolf

spiders

fish-eating

long-jawed water

water wolf

spiderworts

Spirostomum

sponge, Freshwater

SPONGES

African freshwater

spoonbill, African

spoonbills

spreadwing, Highland

spreadwings

SPRINGTAILS

long

plump

round

sprite, Catshead

Cherry-eye

Masai

Painted

Powder-faced

Slate

Upland

sprites

square-gills, small

squeaker, Brown

Largespot

squeakers

Staurastrum

stilt, Black-winged

stint, Little

stonebasher, Dwarf

Slender

STONEFLIES

Cape

denticulate

Drakensberg

hardy

porcupine

southern

tropical

true

tufted-nymph

STONEWORTS

stork, Abdim’s

Marabou

Saddle-billed

Woolly-necked

Yellow-billed

storks

suckermouth, Pennant-tailed

suckermouths

sunfish, Bluegill

Surirella

swamphen, African

T

Tabellaria

TARDIGRADES

teal, Cape

Hottentot

Red-billed

tern, Caspian

Whiskered

White-winged

terns

terrapin, Marsh

Serrated hinged

Zambezi soft-shelled

terrapins

thick-knee, Water

thorntail, Common

threadtail, Common

Tigerfish

tigerfishes

tigertail, Common

tilapia, Banded

Mozambique

Red-breasted

toad bugs

toad, Amatola

Cape sand

Eastern leopard

Eastern olive

Guttural

Karoo

Lemaire’s

Northern pygmy

Paradise

Raucous

Red

Western leopard

toadlet, Rose’s mountain

toadlets, mountain

toads, pygmy

typical

Van Dijk’s

Toothache root

topminnow, Johnston’s

topminnows

tortoises

Trachelomonas

Trembling sea mat

trout

Brown

Rainbow

Tryblionella

turtles

U

Ulva

V

Volvox

Vorticella

Vundu

W

wagtail, Cape

Wandering Jew

WATER BEARS

water boatmen

invasive

pygmy

smooth

spotted

water bug, Fieber’s giant

Great

Wrestling

water bugs, African creeping

creeping

elliptical

giant

Gondwanan pygmy

velvet

Water chestnut

water chestnuts

water clover, Large fruit

Powdery

Saddle-shaped

Watercress

water crickets

cape

grey

pygmy

water fleas

common

elephant

Water hyacinth

Water lettuce

water lily, Blue

water measurers

water net, Cape

European

water nets

Water onion

Water parsnip

water pennies

waterscorpions

squat

Water silk

water specs

water stick insects

water strider, Flat

Neogerris

Orange

Pencil

water striders

large tropical

tenagogonus

Water thyme

Curly

water treaders

water-plantains

Waterblommetjie

Upright

waterblommetjies

Waterbuck

watermilfoil, Spiked

watermilfoils

waternymph, Ricefield

weevils, water

WHEEL ANIMALS

widow, Lucia

Yellow-veined

willow herb, African

willow herbs

Witvis

worm, Sewage

worms, Aeolosoma

anchor

HORSEHAIR

naidid

SEGMENTED

Y

yellow-eye, Cape

Membranous

yellowfish, Clanwilliam

Largemouth

Lowveld largescale

Smallmouth

yellowfishes

Yellowjack

Z

zonocypris, Tuberose

INDEX TO SCIENTIFIC NAMES

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A

Abaria electa

Acanthiops

Acarina

Accipitridae

Aclosma

Actinastrum hantzschii

Actinosphaerium

Actophilornis africanus

Adenophlebia

Adenophlebiodes

bicolor

Aedes aegypti

Aeolosoma hemprichi

Aeolosomatidae

Aeshnidae

Africallagma glaucum

Africanogyrus

Afrixalus

aureus

delicatus

fornasinii

knysnae

spinifrons

spinifrons intermedius

spinifrons spinifrons

Afrobaetodes

Afrobrianax ferdyi

Afrodromia

Afronemoura

amatolae

spinulata

Afronurus

Afroplocia sampsoni

Afroptilum

sudafricanum

Afrothaumalea

Afrotridactylus

Agapetus murinus

Agraptocorixa

Ahaggaria australis

Alcedinidae

Alcedo cristata

semitorquata

Alestidae

Algophilus

Aliolimnatis michaelseni

Alisma plantago-aquatica

Alismataceae

Allocnemis leucosticta

Allocotocerus

Alona

Alopochen aegyptiaca

Amaryllidaceae

Amaurornis flavirostra

Amietia

fuscigula

hymenopus

poyntoni

quecketti

vandijki

vertebralis

Amietophrynus

garmani

gutturalis

lemairii

maculatus

pantherinus

pardalis

poweri

rangeri

Amoeba

Amphibia

Amphiliidae

Amphilius natalensis

uranoscopus

Amphiops

Amphipoda

Amplorhinus multimaculatus

Ampullariidae

Anabaena

Anabantidae

Anas capensis

erythrorhyncha

hottentota

platyrhynchos

smithii

sparsa

undulata

Anastomus lamelligerus

Anatidae

Anax bangweuluensis

imperator

speratus

Ancylini

Angilia

Anguilla mossambica

Anguillidae

Anhinga rufa

Anhingidae

Anisops

Anisoptera

Ankistrodesmus

Annelida

Anopheles

Anostraca

Anthocerotophyta

Antocha

Anura

Aonyx capensis

Aphanicerca

capensis

Aphanicercella

cassida

Aphanicercopsis

tabularis

Aphelocheiridae

Aphididae

Apiaceae

Aplexa marmorata

Aplocheichthyinae

Apocynaceae

Aponogeton angustifolius

desertorum

distachyos

junceus

Aponogetonaceae

Appasus

grassei

nepoides

procera

Aprionyx

tricuspidatus

Aquadulcaris

Aquarius

distanti

Araceae

Arachnida

Araliaceae

Araneae

Araucoderus

Arcella

Arcuatula capensis

Ardea alba

cinerea

goliath

melanocephala

purpurea

Ardeidae

Ardeola ralloides

rufiventris

Arrenuridae

Arrenurus

Artemia salina

Arthropoda

Arthrospira

Arundo donax

Aselas

Asio capensis

Aspatharia pfeifferiana

Asphodelaceae

Aspidytes niobe

Aspidytidae

Assiminea

Assimineidae

Astacidea

Asteraceae

Asterionella formosa

Athericidae

Athripsodes

bergensis

prionii

Athripsodes schoenobates

Atilax paludinosus

Atractides amplexa

Atrichopogon

Aulonogyrus

Austroglanididae

Austroglanis gilli

Aves

Azolla filiculoides

pinnata

B

Bacillariophyta

Bacteria

Baetidae

Baetis

harrisoni

Bagous

Balearica regulorum

Balinskycercella

tugelae

Ballistura schoetti

Barbarochthon brunneum

Barbarochthonidae

Barbus calidus

erubescens

Batrachospermum

Bdelloidea

Bellamya capillata

monardi

Belostomatidae

Berosus

Berula erecta

repanda

Biomphalaria pfeifferi

Bivalvia

Blephariceridae

Blepharisma

Bolboschoenus glaucus

maritimus

Borborophilus

Bosmina longirostris

Bosminidae

Bostrychia hagedash

Botaurus stellaris

Brachidontes semistriatus

variabilis

Brachionidae

Brachionus calyciflorus

plicatilis

Brachycera

Brachydeutera

Brachythemis lacustris

leucosticta

Brachyura

Bradybaenus

Branchiopoda

Branchipodopsis tridens

wolfi

Branchiura

Brassicaceae

Brycinus imberi

lateralis

Bryophyta

Bryozoa

Bubulcus ibis

Buddlejaceae

Bulinus

africanus

forskalii

globosus

natalensis

tropicus

Burhinus vermiculatus

Burnupia

Butorides striata

C

Cacosternum

aggestum

australis

boettgeri

capense

karooicum

namaquense

nanum

parvum

platys

rhythmum

striatum

Caenidae

Caenis

Calanoida

Calidris minuta

Calopsis paniculata

Calopterygidae

Capensibufo

rosei

tradouwi

Capitonisalda

Carabidae

Carassius auratus

Carex austro-africana

Caridea

Caridina nilotica

typus

Carpha glomerata

Carteria

Castanophlebia

Centella asiatica

Centrarchidae

Centrocypris species

Ceratium

Ceratogomphus pictus

Ceratophallus

Ceratophyllaceae

Ceratophyllum demersum var. demersum

Ceratophysella denticulata

Ceratopogonidae

Ceriagrion glabrum

Ceriodaphnia producta

Ceryle rudis

Chaetodera regalis

Chaetonotus

Chambardia petersi

wahlbergi

Chaoboridae

Chaoborus

Chaos chaos

Chara

Charadriiformes

Charadrius pecuarius

tricollaris

Charophyta

Chauliodinae

Cheimacheramus

Cheleocloeon

Cherax quadricarinatus

tenuimanus

Cheumatopsyche afra

thomasseti

Chiloglanis anoterus

pretoriae

Chimarra

ambulans

Chiromantis xerampelina

Chironia palustris

purpurascens humulis

Chironomidae

Chlamydomonas

Chlidonias hybrida

leucopterus

Chlorhydra viridissima

Chlorocyphidae

Chlorolestes fasciatus

Chloroniella peringueyi

Chlorophyta

Chonopeltis liversedgei

Chorella

Chroicocephalus cirrocephalus

hartlaubii

Chroococcus

Chrysogaster

Chrysomelidae

Chrysops

Chydoridae

Cichlidae

Ciconia abdimii

ciconia

episcopus

nigra

Ciconiidae

Circus ranivorus

Cirrula

Cladium mariscus

Cladocera

Cladophora

glomerata

Clarias cavernicola

gariepinus

theodorae

Clariidae

Claroteidae

Cleopatra elata

ferruginea

nsendweensis

Clinocera

Cloeon

Clogmia

Closterium

Clupeidae

Cnidaria

Coelatura framesi

framesi

kunenensis

mossambicensis

Coenagrionidae

Coleoptera

Collembola

Colocasia esculenta

Commelina diffusa

Commelinaceae

Conchostraca

Conochilus unicornis

Copepoda

Coptodon rendalli

Corbicula astartina

fluminalis

Corbiculidae

Corethrella

Corethrellidae

Corixidae

Corydalidae

Corydalinae

Cosmarium

Cotula coronopifolia

Craspedacusta sowerbii

Crinum campanulatum

paludosum

Crocidura mariquensis

Crocodylia

Crocodylus niloticus

Crocothemis erythraea

sanguinolenta

Cryptochila grandiflora

Ctenopharyngodon idella

Ctenopoma multispinis

Ctenostomata

Culex

Culicidae

Culicoides

Curculionidae

Cyanophyta

Cybister

tripunctatus

Cyclestheria hislopi

Cycloderma frenatum

Cyclopoida

Cyclosorus interruptus

Cyclotella meneghiniana

Cymbella aspera

Cyperaceae

Cyperus articulatus

denudatus

fastigiatus

laevigatus

papyrus

textilis

Cyprididae

Cypridoidea

Cypridopsinae

Cyprinidae

Cyprinus carpio

Cyrtanthus angustifolius

elatus

mackenii

Cyrtobagous salviniae

Cytheroidea

D

Daphnia barbata

dolichocephala

magna

Daphniidae

Dasymys incomtus

Decapoda

Demoreptus

natalensis

Demoulinia

Dendroaspis angusticeps

Dendrocygna bicolor

viduata

Dendrocygnidae

Denekia capensis

Dermaptera

Desmonemoura

brevis

pulchellum

Diaphanosoma excisum

perarmatum

Diaptomidae

Diatoma vulgaris

Diceratocephala boschmai

Dicercomyzidae

Dicercomyzon

Dicrotendipes nigrolineatus

Dicyrtomidae

Dicyrtomina

Difflugia

Dileptus margaritifer

Dineutus

Dinophyta

Dipseudopsidae

Dipseudopsis capensis

Diptera

Distichodontidae

Distichodus shenga

Dixa

Dixella

Dixidae

Doellia caffra

Dolichopodidae

Donaciasta goeckei

Donaciinae

Dryopidae

Dugesia

Dunaliella salina

Dytiscidae

E

Echiniscia

Echinochloa jubata

stagnina

Ecnomidae

Ecnomus

Edwardsina

Egeria densa

Egretta ardesiaca

garzetta

intermedia

vinaceigula

Eichhornia crassipes

Elattoneura frenulata

glauca

Elegia tectorum

Eleocharis acutangula

Ellobiidae

Elmidae

Elminae

Elpidelmis

Elporia

Embryophyta

Empididae

Enithares

Enteromius anoplus

bifrenatus

eutaenia

fasciolatus

haasianus

motebensis

paludinosus

poechii

radiatus

rapax

trimaculatus

Enteromorpha

Entomobryomorpha

Ephemera mooiana

Ephemerellina

Ephemeridae

Ephemeroptera

Ephemerythidae

Ephemerythus

Ephippiorhynchus senegalensis

Ephoron

savignyi

Ephydatia fluviatilis

Ephydra

Ephydridae

Equisetum ramosissimum

Ergasildae

Eriocaulaceae

Eriocaulon dregei

Eristalinus megacephalus

taeniops

Eristalis tenax

Esakiella hutchinsoni

Etheria elliptica

Etheriidae

Ethiolimnia geniculata

Euastrum

Eubranchipus

Eucomis pallidiflora

Euglena

Euglenophyta

Eupera ferruginea

Euplectes afer

orix

Eurymetra

natalensis

Euthraulus

elegans

Euthyplociidae

F

Fasciola

Ferrissia

Ficinia nodosa

Fissidens fasciculatus

Flosculariidae

Fontinalis antipyretica

Forcipomyia

Fredericella

australiensis

browni

Fuirena hirsuta

Fulica cristata

G

Galaxias zebratus

Galaxiidae

Gallinago nigripennis

Gallinula angulata

chloropus

Gambusia affinis

Gastropoda

Gastrotricha

Gelastocoridae

Gentianaceae

Geraniaceae

Geranium caffrum

Gerridae

Gerris

swakopensis

Gladiolus papilio

Gleichenia polypodioides

Gloeocapsa

magma

Glossosomatidae

Goera hageni

Goeridae

Gomphidae

Gomphidia quarrei

Gomphocarpus rivularis

Gomphocythere capensis

obtusata

Gomphonema

Gomphostigma virgatum

Gordius

Gorsachius leuconotus

Gruidae

Grus carunculatus

paradiseus

Gryllotalpa africana

Gunnera perpensa

Gunneraceae

Gyraulus chinensis

connollyi

costulatus

Gyrinidae

Gyrinus

Gyrodactylus kherulensis

kobayashi

H

Hadromophryne natalensis

Haematococcus

Haematopota nobilis

Haemodoraceae

Haliaeetus vocifer

Haliplidae

Haliplus

Haloragaceae

Harpacticoida

Hebridae

Hebrometra

Hebrometra niemeri

Hebrus

Hedychium gardnerianum

Heleophryne

depressa

hewitti

orientalis

purcelli

regis

rosei

Helicopsyche

Helicopsychidae

Heliornithidae

Helisoma duryi

Helobdella

europea

Helotrephidae

Hemarthria altissima

Hemichromis angolensis

elongatus

Hemiptera

Hemisus

guttatus

marmoratus

Hepsetidae

Hepsetus cuvieri

Heptageniidae

Hercostomus

Hesperantha coccinea

callifolia

Heterobranchus longifilis

Heteroceridae

Heterocerus

Hexarthra jenkinae

Hexarthridae

Hexatoma

Hildebrandtia ornata

Himantopus himantopus

Hippopotamus amphibius

Hippopotamyrus ansorgii

Hirudinea

Hyacinthaceae

Hydaticus

bivittatus

dregei

exclamationis

Hydra oligactis

viridissima

Hydrachna

Hydrachnidae

Hydraenidae

Hydrellia

Hydrida

Hydrobia knysnaensis

Hydrocharitaceae

Hydrochidae

Hydrochus

Hydrocotyle bonariensis

Hydrocynus vittatus

Hydrocyrius columbiae

Hydrodictyon africanum

reticulatum

Hydrometra

Hydrometridae

Hydrophilidae

Hydrophiloidea

Hydrophilus

aculeatus

senegalensis

Hydroprogne caspia

Hydropsychidae

Hydroptila cruciata

Hydroptilidae

Hydrosalpingidae

Hydrosalpinx sericea

Hydrozetes

Hydrozetes capensis

Hydrozetidae

Hygrobatidae

Hynesionella

Hyperolius

argus

horstockii

marmoratus

nasutus

parallelus

pickersgilli

poweri

pusillus

semidiscus

tuberilinguis

Hyphydrus

Hypogastrura

Hypogastruridae

Hypoxidaceae

Hypsibius

I

Ictinogomphus dundoensis

ferox

Ingolfiellidae

Iridaceae

Iridinidae

Ischnura senegalensis

Isolepis digitata

fluitans

Isopoda

Isotoma

Isotomidae

Isotomurus palustris

Ixobrychus minutus

sturmii

J

Johannsenomyia

Juncaceae

Juncus effusus

kraussii

lomatophyllus

punctorius

rigidus

K

Kassina

maculata

senegalensis

Kiefferulus brevibucca

Kijanebalola devestiva

Kneria

auriculata

Kneriidae

Kniphofia fluviatilis

Kobus ellipsiprymnus

leche

vardonii

Kyllinga melanosperma

L

Labeo altivelis

capensis

cylindricus

seeberi

umbratus

Labeobarbus aeneus

capensis

codringtonii

kimberleyensis

marequensis

Labidura riparia

Laccocoris

Laccotrephes

brachialis

Lachenalia bachmannii

Lagarosiphon major

Lamproglena hepseti

Lampyridae

Lanistes neavei

ovum

Larainae

Laridae

Larus dominicanus

Lemna gibba

minor

Lemnaceae

Lentibulariaceae

Lentorbis

Lepidostoma brachycerus

caffrariae

Lepidostomatidae

Lepomis macrochirus

Leptecho helicotheca

helicotheca

scirpii

Leptestheria brevirostris

rubidgei

striatoconcha

Leptopelis

mossambicus

natalensis

xenodactylus

Leptophlebiidae

Leptopodidae

Leptoptilos cruminferus

Leptosialis africana

necopinata

Lernaea

Lernaeidae

Lestagella

Lestes plagiatus

Lestidae

Lethocerus niloticus

Libellulidae

Limnesia

Limnesiidae

Limnocnida tanganjicae

Limnocytheridae

Limnogeton

fieberi

Limnogonus

Limnomedusae

Limnothrissa miodon

Limosella grandiflora

Lipocarpha chinensis

Lispe

Lophopodella capensis

Lophyra

Lovenula

Luciola

Ludwigia adscendens

adscendens diffusa

Lutra maculicollis

Lycodonomorphus laevissimus

leleupi

obscuriventris

rufulus

Lycosidae

Lymnaea columella

natalensis

truncatula

Lymnaeidae

Lyngbya

Lysathia

M

Machadorythidae

Machadorythus maculatus

Macrobrachium equidens

rude

Macrocoris

Macromiidae

Macrostemum capense

Macrothricidae

Macrothrix spinosa

Magnoliopsida

Malapteruridae

Malapterurus shirensis

Mammalia

Marchantia berteroana

Marchantiophyta

Marcusenius macrolepidotus

Marsilea ephippiocarpa

farinosa

macrocarpa

Marsupiobdella africana

Maruina

Mastacembelidae

Mastacembelus frenatus

Megaceryle maxima

Megalocypris durbani

hispida

princeps

Megaloptera

Melanoides tuberculata

victoriae

Menyanthaceae

Merismopedia

Mermythidae

Mesamphisopus

Mesobola brevianalis

gariepinus

Mesoceration

Mesostoma

Mesovelia vittigera

Mesoveliidae

Micralestes acutidens

Micrasterias

Microbatrachella capensis

Microcarbo africanus

Microcystis

Micronecta

Micronectidae

Micropanchax johnstoni

myaposa

Microparra capensis

Micropterus dolomieu

floridanus

punctulatus

salmoides

Microspora

Microvelia

Miscanthus junceus

Mochokidae

Moerisia inkermanica

Moina micrura

Moinidae

Mollusca

Monogenea

Monoraphidium

Mormyridae

Mormyrops anguilloides

Mormyrus caschive

longirostris

Motacilla aguimp

capensis

clara

Mougeotia

Muscidae

Mutela zambeziensis

Mycteria ibis

Myosotella myosotis

Myriophyllum aquaticum

aquaticum

spicatum

Mytilidae

N

Naboandelus africanus

Nadinetella

Naegleria fowleri

Naididae

Najadaceae

Najas graminea

Nannocharax machadoi

multifasciatus

Nasturtium officinale

Natalobatrachus bonebergi

Natriciteres olivacea

sylvatica

Naucoridae

Naucoris obscuratus

Navicula angusta

rostellata

tripunctata

Neesenbeckia punctoria

Nematocera

Nematoda

Nematomorpha

Nemertea

Neoarisemus

Neochetina

Neogerris severini

Neogossea acanthocolla

Neohydronomus affinis

Neomacrocoris

parviceps

Neomaruina

Neoperla

Nepidae

Nepinae

Neritidae

Neritina

gagates

natalensis

pulligera

Nerthra grandicollis

Nesciothemis farinosa

Netrium

Netta erythrophthalma

Nettapus auritus

Neumania

Nilus margaritatus

Nitella

Nostoc

Noteridae

Nothobranchiidae

Nothobranchius krysanovi

pienaari

rachovii

Notiphila

Notodromadidae

Notogomphus praetorius

Notonecta

lactitans

Notonectidae

Notonemouridae

Notostraca

Nucleotops

Numenius arquata

Nychia limpida

Nycticorax nycticorax

Nymphaea lotus

nouchali var. caerulea

Nymphaeaceae

Nymphoides indica subsp. occidentalis

thunbergiana

O

Ocellovelia

distanti

Ochteridae

Ochterus caffer

marginatus

Ochthebius

Ochthera

Odonata

Oecetis

Oligochaeta

Oligoneuriidae

Oligoneuriopsis

Omophron

Onagraceae

Oncorhynchus mykiss

Oocystis

Opsaridium peringueyi

zambezense

Orectogyrus

Oreochromis mossambicus

Orthetrum

chrysostigma

julia

julia capicola

julia falsum

trinacria

Orthochromis machadoi

Orthoptera

Orthotrichia

barnardi

Oscillatoria

Osteichthyes

Ostracoda

Otomys angoniensis

irroratus

Ottelia exserta

Oxycaryum cubense

Oxyethira velocipes

Oxyloma patentissima

Oxyura maccoa

P

Pachybates

Paduniella

Palaemon capensis

Palpomyia

Palpopleura jucunda

lucia

portia

Pandion haliaetus

Pandionidae

Pandorina

Pantala flavescens

Paracnephia

Paracypretta acanthifera

Paragomphus cognatus

elpidius

genei

Paragordius

Parakneria

Paramecium

Paramelita capensis

magna

nigroculus

Paraphrynoveliidae

Paraphynovelia

Parastethops

Parauchenoglanis ngamensis

Parecnomina resima

Parydra

Paspalum distichum

urvillei

Passeriformes

Pectinatella

Pediastrum

Pelecanidae

Pelecanus onocrotalus

rufescens

Pelomedusa subrufa

Pelomyxa

Peloriolus

Peltodytes

Pelusios bechuanicus

castanoides

rhodesianus

sinuatus

subniger

Peracarida

Peridinium

Peringueyomyina

Perlidae

Persicaria amphibia

lapathifolia

Petrocephalus catostoma

petersi

wesselsi

Petroplax

Petrothrincidae

Petrothrincus circularis

demoori

Phacus

Phaeoceros laevis

Phalacrocoracidae

Phalacrocorax capensis

lucidus

Phaon iridipennis

Philodina roseola

Philodinidae

Philomachus pugnax

Philonthus

Philopotamidae

Philothamnus hoplogaster

Phoeniconaias minor

Phoenicopteridae

Phoenicopterus roseus

Phormidium

Phragmites australis

mauritianus

Phrynobatrachus

acridoides

mababiensis

natalensis

Phrynomantis

affinis

annectens

bifasciatus

Phylactolaemata

Phyllomacromia picta

Physa acuta

Physidae

Pila occidentalis

Pinheyschna rileyi

subpupillata

Pirata africana

Pisauridae

Pisidium

costulosum

reticulatum

Pistia stratiotes

Pisuliidae

Planorbidae

Plantaginaceae

Plantago major

Platalea alba

Platychauliodes

Platycnemididae

Platycypha caligata

Platyhelminthes

Plea

Plecoptera

Plectropterus gambensis

Plegadis falcinellus

Pleidae

Plumatella

bushnelli

emarginata

punctata

repens

rugosa

vaihiriae

Poaceae

Podica senegalensis

Podiceps cristatus

nigricollis

Podicipedidae

Podura aquatica

Poduridae

Poduromorpha

Poecilia reticulata

Poeciliidae

Pollimyrus castelnaui

cuandoensis

marianne

Polygonaceae

Polymitarcyidae

Polymorphanisus bipunctatus

Pomacea diffusa

Pomatiopsidae

Pontederia cordata

Pontederiaceae

Porifera

Porphyrio alleni

madagascariensis

Potamodytes

Potamogeton crispus

nodosus

schweinfurthii

Potamogetonaceae

Potamolepidae

Potamolepis

Potamonautes brincki

calcaratus

clarus

depressus

lividus

parvicorpus

parvispina

perlatus

sidneyi

unispinus

warreni

Potamophloios

Povilla adusta

Poyntonia paludicola

Poyntonophrynus

fenoulheti

vertebralis

Prioniaceae

Prionium serratum

Pristina

Procambarus clarkii

Prosopistoma

Prosopistomatidae

Prostoma

eilhardi

graecense

Protista

Protopolystoma xenopodis

Protopteridae

Protopterus annectens

Psephenidae

Pseudagrion

coeleste

hageni

hageni hageni

hageni tropicanum

kersteni

massaicum

salisburyense

spernatum

sublacteum

Pseudobarbus afer

andrewi

burchelli

burgi

calidus

phlegethon

quathlambae

serra

trevelyani

Pseudocrenilabrus philander

Pseudopannota

maculosa

Pseudoschoenus inanis

Psychoda

Psychodidae

Psychodinae

Psychomyidae

Pterophyta

Ptilodactylidae

Ptychadena

anchietae

mascareniensis

mossambica

oxyrhynchus

porosissima

taenioscelis

Ptychoptera

Ptychopteridae

Pycreus polystachyos

Python natalensis

Pyxicephalus

adspersus

edulis

R

Radix rubiginosa

Rallidae

Rallus caerulescens

Ranatra

Ranatrinae

Ranunculaceae

Ranunculus meyeri

Rapnus

Recurvirostra avocetta

Redunca arundinum

Regimbartia

Reptilia

Restionaceae

Rhacocarpus purpurascens

Rhagadotarsus

hutchinsoni

Rhagovelia

Rhantus

concolorans

Rhinohelea

Rhodophyta

Rhoizema

montanum

Rhopalosiphon nymphae

Rhynchops flavirostris

Rhynchospora brownii

Rhyothemis fenestrina

semihyalina

Rhyssemus

Riccardia

Riccia stricta

Rissoa capensis

Romulea multisulcata

Rostratula benghalensis

Rotatoria

Rotifera

Rupisalda

S

Saggitaria latifolia

Saldidae

Saldula

Salmo trutta

Salmonidae

Salpinoeca

Salvinia molesta

Sandelia bainsii

capensis

Sargochromis giardi

Sarkidiornis melanotos

Sarothrura

Sarothruridae

Scarabaeidae

Scenedesmus

Schilbe intermedius

Schilbeidae

Schismaderma carens

Schistosoma haematobium

mansoni

Schoenoplectus brachyceras

corymbosus

Sciadorus obtusus

Sciomyzidae

Scirpus digitatus

Scirtidae

Scopidae

Scopus umbretta

Scotopelia peli

Scrophulariaceae

Sebaea leiostyla

Segmentorbis

Semnodactylus wealii

Sepedon convergens

Septaria borbonica

borbonica

tessellaria

Sericostomatidae

Serranochromis altus

angusticeps

meridianus

robustus

thumbergi

Sheathia

Sialidae

Sididae

Sigara

meridionalis

sexlineata

Silvatares collyrifer

Simuliidae

Simulium

damnosum

ruficorne

Sminthurides

Sminthurididae

Spercheidae

Spercheus cerisyi

Sperchon

Sperchonidae

Sphaeridia

Sphaeriidae

Sphaerium capense

incomitatum

Sphagnum

Spiloxene aquatica

Spirodela polyrrhiza

Spirogyra

Spirostomum

Spirulina

Spongillidae

Squamata

Stactobia

Staphylinidae

Staurastrum

Stenelmis

Stenocorixa

protrusa

Stenotaphrum secundatum

Stentor

Stenus

Sternophysinx

Stockenia pectinatus

Stratiomyidae

Stratiomys

Streptocephalus cafer

purcelli

Strigidae

Strina

Strongylopus

bonaespei

fasciatus

grayii

wageri

Succineidae

Surirella

Sympetrum fonscolombii

Symphypleona

Synlestidae

Synodontis macrostigma

nigromaculatus

woosnami

zambezensis

Syrphidae

T

Tabanidae

Tabanus gratus

taeniola

Tabellaria flocculosa

Tachybaptus ruficollis

Tachytrechus

Tadorna cana

Taeniochauliodes ochraceopennis

Tanyderidae

Tardigrada

Tarebia granifera

Teloganodidae

Temnosewellia chaeropsis

Tenagogonus

Tenagovelia

sjoestedti

Testudines

Tetragnatha boydi

Tetragnathidae

Tetrigidae

Tettigidae

Thalassornis leuconotus

Thaumaleidae

Thiara amarula

Thiaridae

Threskiornis aethiopicus

Threskiornithidae

Thryonomys swinderianus

Thylakion

Tilapia sparrmanii

Tinodes

Tipula

Tipulidae

Tomichia

cawstoni

Tomopterna

cryptotis

delalandii

krugerensis

marmorata

natalensis

tandyi

Torrenticola

Torrenticolidae

Trachelomonas

Tragelaphus spekii

Trapa natans

Trapaceae

Trematoda

Trichacantha atranupta

Trichocorixa

verticalis

Trichoptera

Trichothaumalea

Tricorythidae

Tricorythus

Tridactylidae

Tridactylus

Trimicra

Trionyx triunguis

Triops granarius

Trithemis annulata

arteriosa

dorsalis

furva

kirbyi

palustris

stictica

Tryblionella gracilis

Trypanosoma

Tubifex tubifex

Tubificidae

Turbellaria

Typha capensis

domingensis

Typhaceae

Tyto capensis

Tytonidae

U

Ugandatrichia

Ulva

Unio caffer

Unionicolidae

Unionidae

Utricularia gibba

V

Valleriola moesta

Vandijkophrynus

amatolicus

angusticeps

gariepensis

robinsoni

Vanellus albiceps

armatus

crassirostris

senegallus

Varanus niloticus

Veliidae

Victorella

pavida

Viviparidae

Volvox

Vorticella campanula

W

Wachendorphia thyrisiflora

Wardia hygrometrica

Wolffia arrhiza

Wucheraria bancrofti

X

Xenomyia

Xenopus

gilli

laevis

muelleri

petersi

Xiphocentronidae

Xiphoveloidea

major

Xiridaceae

Xya

Xyris capensis

gerrardii

Z

Zaireichthys conspicuus

Zantedeschia aethiopica

Zingibaraceae

Zonocypris cordata

costata

tuberosa

Zosteraeschna minuscula

usambarica

Zygnema

Zygoptera