David (Dai) Herbert was born and brought up in Wales. After obtaining
his Ph.D. from London University in 1984, he took up his present
position in the Department of Mollusca at the Natal Museum. He is
currently a member of the IUCN Mollusc and Southern African
Invertebrates specialist groups, and is secretary of Unitas
Malacologica, the global professional society of malacologists. He has
published over 50 scientific publications, a similar number of popular
articles and one book.
His research interests have centered on:-
- Vetigastropod systematics, primarily in southern Africa and the western Indian Ocean.
- Land snail and slug fauna of southern Africa, particularly in connection with phylogeny, biogeography and habitat preferences.
- Alien molluscs of southern Africa.
- Molluscan conservation in southern Africa.
Publication List
Books
Herbert, D.G. & Kilburn, R.N. 2004. Field guide to the land snails and slugs of eastern South Africa. 340pp. Natal Museum: Pietermaritzburg.
Book chapters
Herbert, D.G. 1998. Molluscan conservation in South Africa: diversity, issues and priorities. In: Molluscan conservation: a strategy for the 21st century. Eds Killeen, I.J., Seddon, M.B. & Holmes, A.M. Journal of Conchology, Special volume. No 2:61-76.
White, R.M., Cocks, M., Herbert, D.G. & Hamer, M.L.
2004. Traditional medicines from forest animals. Pp. 474-477, in:
Lawes, M.J., Eeley, H.A.C., Shackleton, C.M. & Geach, B.G.S. (eds),
Indigenous forests and woodlands in South Africa. Policy, people and practice. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press: Pietermaritzburg.
Griffiths, O. & Herbert, D. In press. Terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca.? In: L' histoire naturelle de Madagascar, S. M. Goodman & J. P. Benstead (eds.), Paris: Mus?um National d'Histoire Naturelle.
Scientific publications (selected)
Herbert, D.G. 1986. A revision of the southern African Scissurellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda : Prosobranchia). Annals of the Natal Museum, 27(2):601-632.
Herbert, D.G. & Kilburn, R.N. 1986. Taxonomic studies on the Emarginulinae (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Emarginula, Emarginella, Puncturella, Fissurisepta and Rimula. South African Journal of Zoology, 21(1):1-27.
Herbert, D.G. 1987. Taxonomic studies on the Emarginulinae (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Hemitoma, Clypidina, Tugali, Scutus, Zeidora and two species of Emarginula. South African Journal of Zoology, 22(1):1-13.
Herbert, D.G. 1987. A revision of the Solariellinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum, 28(2):283-382.
Herbert, D.G. 1988. Studies on Priotrochus obscurus and the systematic position of Priotrochus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Zoology, London, 214(2):261-268.
Herbert, D.G. 1989. Pagodatrochus, a new genus for Minolia variabilis H. Adams, 1873 (Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies, 55:365-372.
Herbert, D.G. 1991. A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Natural History 25: 883-900.
Herbert, D.G. 1992. Revision of the Umboniinae (Mollusca: Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum, 33(2):379-459.
Herbert, D.G. 1993. Revision of the Trochinae, tribe Trochini in southern Africa (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annals of the Natal Museum, 34(2):239-308.
Herbert, D.G. 1994. Trochus kotschyi Philippi, 1849, the first Indian Ocean record of the genus Osilinus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Zoology, London, 233:345-357.
Herbert, D.G. 1996. Observations on Clanculus tonnerrei (G. & H. Nevill, 1874) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Tropical Zoology 9(1):31-45.
Herbert, D.G. 1996. A critical review of the trochoidean types in the Mus?um d'Histoire Naturelle, Bordeaux (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin du Mus?um national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, s?rie 4, A 18(3-4):409-445.
Herbert, D.G. 1997. The terrestrial slugs of KwaZulu-Natal: diversity, biogeography and conservation (Mollusca: Pulmonata). Annals of the Natal Museum 38: 197-239.
Herbert, D.G. 1998. Revision of the genus Calliotrochus Fischer, 1879 (Gastropoda: Trochoidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12:545-565.
Herbert, D.G. 1998. Molluscan conservation in South Africa: diversity, issues and priorities. In: Molluscan conservation: a strategy for the 21st century. Journal of Conchology, Special volume. No 2:61-76.
Herbert, D.G. 1999. Siphonaria compressa, South Africa's most endangered marine mollusc. South African Journal of Science 95:77-79.
Herbert, D.G. (in press) Natural science in museums: life between a rock and a hard place. South African Museums Association Bulletin.
Herbert, D.G. & War?n, A. (in press) South African
Mollusca described by Ferdinand Krauss, their current status and notes
on type material housed in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm. Annals of the Natal Museum 40:205-243.
Herbert, D.G. 2000. Dining on diplopods: remarkable feeding behaviour in chlamydephorid slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of Zoology, London 251(1):1-5. (cover photograph)
Herbert, D. G. 2001. Museum natural science and the NRF: crisis times for practitioners of fundamental biodiversity science. South African Journal of Science 97(5/6):168-172.
Herbert, D.G. & Sirgel, W.F. 2001. The recent
introduction of two potentially pestiferous alien snails in South
Africa and the outcomes of differing pest management practices: an
eradication and a colonisation. South African Journal of Science 97(7/8):301-304.
Herbert, D.G. 2002 Gulella salpinx sp. n. a
new, critically endangered, holoendemic species from the limestone
deposits of the Marble Delta, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Mollusca:
Gastropoda: Streptaxidae). African Invertebrates 43:125-138.
Herbert, D.G., Hamer, M.L., Mander, M., Mkhize, N. & Prins, F. 2003. The use of invertebrate animals in the traditional medicine trade in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. African Invertebrates 44(2):327-344.
Lydeard, C., Cowie, R.H., Ponder, W.F., Bogan, A.E., Bouchet,
P., Clarke, S.A., Cummings, K.S., Frest, T.J., Gargominy, O., Herbert,
D.G., Hershler, R., Perez, K.E., Roth, B., Seddon, M., Strong, E.E. and
Thompson, F.G. 2004. The Global Decline of Non-marine Mollusks. BioScience 54(4):321-330.
Herbert, D.G. 2004. Natural science research in southern African museums: a Victorian anachronism or fundamental biodiversity science? South African Museums Association Bulletin 25(2):32-38 (dated July 2000).
Bursey, M.L. & Herbert, D.G. 2004. Four new narrow-range endemic species of Gulella from Eastern Cape, South Africa (Mollusca: Pulmonata: Streptaxidae). African Invertebrates 45: 249-262.
Allanson, B.R. & Herbert, D.G. 2005. A newly discovered population of the critically endangered false limpet Siphonaria compressa Allanson, 1958 (Pulmonata: Siphonariidae), with observations on its reproductive biology. South African Journal of Science 101: 95-97.
Seddon, M.B., Tattersfield, P., Herbert, D.G., Rowson, B., Lange, C.N., Ngereza, C., Warui, C.M. & Allen, J.A.?
2005. Forest mollusc communities in Africa: what we have learned since
Solem (1984). In: Cameron, R.A.D., Nekola, J.C., Pokryszko, B.M. and
Wells, F.E. (Eds) Pattern and process in land mollusc diversity.
Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement No 68:103-113.
Herbert, D.G. (in press) Rediscovery of the type species of Euonyma (Subulinidae) and observations on South African species of Gulella (Streptaxidae), with description of two new species (Gastropoda: Eupulmonata). Journal of Natural History.
Herbert, D.G. (submitted) Revision of the genus Prestonella: the African element of the Gondwanan family Bulimulidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Orthalicoidea). African Invertebrates 47.
Herbert, D.G. & Mitchell, A. (submitted). Phylogenetic relationships of the enigmatic land snail genus Prestonella (Mollusca: Stylommatophora: Orthalicoidea) - the missing African element in the Gondwanan family Bulimulidae. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society
Nangammbi, T.C. & Herbert, D.G. (submitted). Two new species of Tricolia Risso, 1826, from South Africa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Phasianellidae). African Invertebrates 47.
Popular articles (selected)
Herbert, D.G. 1988. Investigating the molluscs of the Maputaland reefs - a research trip to Kosi Bay. Underwater in the Indian Ocean, 6:36-37.
Herbert, D.G. 1989. The Raffia Palms of Tongaland. Sagittarius, 4(2):14-17.
Herbert, D.G. 1989. The noble morum: a marine mollusc lost and found. African Wildlife, 43(5):253-254.
Herbert, D.G. 1991. South Africa's carnivorous snails. African Wildlife, 45(1):6-11.
Herbert, D.G. 1993. The carrier shells of southern Africa and Mozambique. Strandloper, 235:4-7.
Kilburn, R.N. & Herbert, D.G. 1995. Amazing molluscs. African Panorama, 40(2):15-19.
Herbert, D.G. 1997. The Good, the Bad and the Harmless: Slugs and Snails in your Garden. South African Garden & Home October, 1997:100-105.
Herbert, D.G. 2000. Rare carnivorous slug found in KwaZulu-Natal. Strandloper 261:1-2.
Herbert, D.G. 2000. Plugging molluscs into biodiversity conservation planning. Tentacle 9:9.
Herbert, D.G. 2000. Dwesa - a high diversity site for land snails. Strandloper 262:3-4.
Herbert, D.G. 2001. A wake up call for museum natural science - some food for thought. Samantics 40:6-7.
Herbert, D.G. 2001. Snails. In: Our Coastal Treasure: the Greater St Francis Area. 2nd Edition, pp 53-56. St Francis/Kromme Trust and St Francis Open Space System.
Herbert, D.G. 2002. The Mollusc Specialist Group and the Southern African Invertebrates Specialist Group - a new synergy. Tentacle 10:6-7.
Herbert, D.G. 2002. Invertebrate specialist groups - a new synergy. Species 37:6-7.
Herbert, D.G. 2004. Exploitation of molluscs in northern Mozambique. Tentacle 12:21-22.
Herbert, D.G. 2004. Buy a shell - kill a mollusc. African Wildlife 58(2):28.
Herbert, D.G. 2004. Sabre-toothed slugs. Africa Geographic, July, 2004, pp.18-20.
Hamer, M., Dippenaar-Schoeman, A., Herbert D., Crowe T., Smith, G., Mansell, M., Scholtz, C.,? Pauw, J., van Jaarsveld, A. 2006. Discovering our biodiversity. Quest 2(4):3-10.
Unpublished reports
Herbert, D.G. 1987. Report on a field-trip to the coral reefs off Kosi Bay; 10-22 July, 1987. Natal Museum unpublished report.
Herbert, D.G. 1990. Report on a second field-trip to the coral reefs off Kosi Bay; 1-16 may, 1990. Natal Museum unpublished report.
Herbert, D.G., Smith, G.F. Hamer M.L. & Scholtz,
C.H. 2001. Taxonomy and systematics research in South Africa: vital
research facing a crisis in capacity and resources. Submitted to NRF
and DACST.
Herbert, D.G. 2003. Museum collections and research
capacity in South Africa: issues, priorities and challenges. Paper
submitted to DEA&T after Biodiversity Research Priorities workshop (DEA&T and DS&T), HSRC, Pretoria, 14-15 October, 2003.
Adie, H., Wethered, R., Herbert, D. & Lewis, F.
2005. The State of the Nature of South African Biosystematics study.
Investigational Report No 254, Institute of Natural Resources:
Pietermaritzburg.
Scientific publications (selected)
Herbert, D.G. 1986. A revision of the southern African Scissurellidae
(Mollusca: Gastropoda : Prosobranchia). Annals of the Natal Museum,
27(2):601-632.4
Herbert, D.G. & Kilburn, R.N. 1986. Taxonomic studies on the
Emarginulinae (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Fissurellidae) of southern
Africa and Mozambique. Emarginula, Emarginella, Puncturella,
Fissurisepta and Rimula. South African Journal of Zoology, 21(1):1-27.
Herbert, D.G. 1987. Taxonomic studies on the Emarginulinae (Mollusca :
Gastropoda : Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique.
Hemitoma, Clypidina, Tugali, Scutus, Zeidora and two species of
Emarginula. South African Journal of Zoology, 22(1):1-13.
Herbert, D.G. 1987. A revision of the Solariellinae (Mollusca:
Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa. Annals of the Natal
Museum, 28(2):283-382.
Herbert, D.G. 1988. Studies on Priotrochus obscurus and the systematic
position of Priotrochus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of
Zoology, London, 214(2):261-268.
Herbert, D.G. 1989. Pagodatrochus, a new genus for Minolia variabilis
H. Adams, 1873 (Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies,
55:365-372.
Herbert, D.G. 1991. A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894
(Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Natural History 25:
883-900.
Herbert, D.G. 1992. Revision of the Umboniinae (Mollusca:
Prosobranchia: Trochidae) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of
the Natal Museum, 33(2):379-459.
Herbert, D.G. 1993. Revision of the Trochinae, tribe Trochini in
southern Africa (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annals of the Natal Museum,
34(2):239-308.
Herbert, D.G. 1994. Trochus kotschyi Philippi, 1849, the first Indian
Ocean record of the genus Osilinus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae).
Journal of Zoology, London, 233:345-357.
Herbert, D.G. 1996. Observations on Clanculus tonnerrei (G. & H.
Nevill, 1874) (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Tropical Zoology
9(1):31-45.
Herbert, D.G. 1996. A critical review of the trochoidean types in the
Mus?um d'Histoire Naturelle, Bordeaux (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin
du Mus?um national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris, s?rie 4, A
18(3-4):409-445.
Herbert, D.G. 1997. The terrestrial slugs of KwaZulu-Natal: diversity,
biogeography and conservation (Mollusca: Pulmonata). Annals of the
Natal Museum 38: 197-239.
Herbert, D.G. 1998. Revision of the genus Calliotrochus Fischer, 1879
(Gastropoda: Trochoidea). Invertebrate Taxonomy 12:545-565.
Herbert, D.G. 1998. Molluscan conservation in South Africa: diversity,
issues and priorities. In: Molluscan conservation: a strategy for the
21st century. Journal of Conchology, Special volume. No 2:61-76.
Herbert, D.G. 1999. Siphonaria compressa, South Africa's most
endangered marine mollusc. South African Journal of Science 95:77-79.
Herbert, D.G. (in press) Natural science in museums: life between a
rock and a hard place. South African Museums Association Bulletin.
Herbert, D.G. & War?n, A. (in press) South African Mollusca
described by Ferdinand Krauss, their current status and notes on type
material housed in the Naturhistoriska Riksmuseet, Stockholm. Annals of
the Natal Museum 40:205-243.
Herbert, D.G. 2000. Dining on diplopods: remarkable feeding behaviour
in chlamydephorid slugs (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of Zoology,
London 251(1):1-5. (cover photograph)
Herbert, D. G. 2001. Museum natural science and the NRF: crisis times
for practitioners of fundamental biodiversity science. South African
Journal of Science 97(5/6):168-172.
Herbert, D.G. & Sirgel, W.F. 2001. The recent introduction of two
potentially pestiferous alien snails in South Africa and the outcomes
of differing pest management practices: an eradication and a
colonisation. South African Journal of Science 97(7/8):301-304.
Herbert, D.G. 2002 Gulella salpinx sp. n. a new, critically endangered,
holoendemic species from the limestone deposits of the Marble Delta,
KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Streptaxidae).
African Invertebrates 43:125-138.
Popular articles (selected)
Herbert, D.G. 1988. Investigating the molluscs of the Maputaland reefs
- a research trip to Kosi Bay. Underwater in the Indian Ocean, 6:36-37.
Herbert, D.G. 1989. The Raffia Palms of Tongaland. Sagittarius, 4(2):14-17.
Herbert, D.G. 1989. The noble morum: a marine mollusc lost and found. African Wildlife, 43(5):253-254.
Herbert, D.G. 1991. South Africa's carnivorous snails. African Wildlife, 45(1):6-11.
Herbert, D.G. 1993. The carrier shells of southern Africa and Mozambique. Strandloper, 235:4-7.
Kilburn, R.N. & Herbert, D.G. 1995. Amazing molluscs. African Panorama, 40(2):15-19.
Herbert, D.G. 1997. The Good, the Bad and the Harmless: Slugs and
Snails in your Garden. South African Garden & Home October,
1997:100-105.
Herbert, D.G. 2000. Rare carnivorous slug found in KwaZulu-Natal. Strandloper 261:1-2.
Herbert, D.G. 2000. Plugging molluscs into biodiversity conservation planning. Tentacle 9:9.
Herbert, D.G. 2000. Dwesa - a high diversity site for land snails. Strandloper 262:3-4.
Herbert, D.G. 2001. A wake up call for museum natural science - some food for thought. Samantics 40:6-7.
Herbert, D.G. 2001. Snails. In: Our Coastal Treasure: the Greater St
Francis Area. 2nd Edition, pp 53-56. St Francis/Kromme Trust and St
Francis Open Space System.
Herbert, D.G. 2002. The Mollusc Specialist Group and the Southern
African Invertebrates Specialist Group - a new synergy. Tentacle
10:6-7.
Herbert, D.G. 2002. Invertebrate specialist groups - a new synergy. Species 37:6-7
Publications in scientific journals
Herbert, D.G., Hamer, M.L., Mander, M., Mkhize, N. & Prins, F.
2003. The use of invertebrate animals in the traditional medicine trade
in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. African Invertebrates 44(2):327-344.
Lydeard, C., Cowie, R.H., Ponder, W.F., Bogan, A.E., Bouchet, P.,
Clarke, S.A., Cummings, K.S., Frest, T.J., Gargominy, O., Herbert,
D.G., Hershler, R., Perez, K.E., Roth, B., Seddon, M., Strong, E.E. and
Thompson, F.G. 2004. The Global Decline of Non-marine Mollusks. BioScience 54(4):321-330.
Herbert, D.G. 2004. Natural science research in southern African
museums: a Victorian anachronism or fundamental biodiversity science? South African Museums Association Bulletin 25(2):32-38 (dated July 2000).
White, R.M., Cocks, M., Herbert, D.G. & Hamer, M.L. 2004. Traditional medicines from forest animals. Pp. 474-477, in: Lawes, M.J., Eeley, H.A.C., Shackleton, C.M. & Geach, B.G.S. (eds), Indigenous forests and woodlands in South Africa. Policy, people and practice. University of KwaZulu-Natal Press: Pietermaritzburg.
Books
Herbert, D.G. & Kilburn, R.N. 2004. A field guide to the land snails and slugs of eastern South Africa. 340pp. Natal Museum: Pietermaritzburg.
Popular articles
Herbert, D.G. 2003. Seizures and Prosecutions - South Africa. Traffic Bulletin 19(3):151-152.
Herbert, D.G. 2004. Exploitation of molluscs in northern Mozambique. Tentacle 12:21-22.
Herbert, D.G. 2004. Buy a shell - kill a mollusc. African Wildlife 58(2):28.
Herbert, D.G. 2004. Sabre-toothed slugs. Africa Geographic, July, 2004, pp.18-20.
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Year
|
Sci Pap
|
No
Internat
|
Pages
|
Pop Art
|
Pages
|
Others
|
Pages
|
Total Pages
|
|
1982
|
1
|
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
1
|
|
1986
|
1.5
|
|
46
|
3
|
3
|
|
|
49
|
|
1987
|
2
|
|
113
|
3
|
4
|
|
|
117
|
|
1988
|
3
|
|
24
|
1
|
2
|
|
|
26
|
|
1989
|
2
|
|
12
|
4
|
8
|
|
|
20
|
|
1990
|
2
|
-
|
12
|
|
|
|
|
12
|
|
1991
|
3.5/4
|
2
|
27.5
|
2
|
7
|
|
|
34.5
|
|
1992
|
2
|
-
|
83
|
|
|
1 ed
|
|
83
|
|
1993
|
2
|
-
|
78
|
2
|
5
|
|
|
83
|
|
1994
|
3.75/5
|
2
|
34
|
3
|
12.5
|
|
|
46.5
|
|
1995
|
3
|
2
|
9
|
2
|
10
|
|
|
19
|
|
1996
|
2.16/3
|
2
|
53
|
1
|
2
|
|
|
55
|
|
1997
|
2
|
0
|
44
|
1
|
|
|
|
|
|
1998
|
4
|
3
|
52
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
-
|
52
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
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|
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|
|
|
|
|
|
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Dai - papers
1990-1997
12.4 (53%) South African, 11 (47%) overseas - Total 23.4
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