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George Busk described, very superficially, specimens collected in
South Africa by the HMS Challenger in the early 1800’s.
Charles O’Donoghue published five papers on South African Bryozoans
and his main work investigated the collection from the SS Pickle
which was commissioned by the South African Museum during 1920-1921.
However, most of these species were described from the south and
east coasts.
More recently Patricia Cook and Peter Hayward produced two reports
for the South African Museum, based on east coast specimens
collected by the Meiring Naude. In these reports an amazing
number of 67 species were described as new accounting for 37% of all
specimens. These authors go so far as to state that the few previous
studies in this region have failed to reveal more than a fraction of
its potential complexity.
There are also numerous other incidental records from South African
waters, mainly collected by amateur naturalists.
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