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Research currently underway on the subtidal fauna includes taxonomic studies and natural product research. Little is known about the organisms and their habitat, but is clear that the subtidal reef of Algoa Bay and the rest of southern Africa is species rich and hosts a large number of new and undescribed species in most of the taxa present.

Taxonomists are few and far between and this is also the case in the South African scientific community. Taxonomists are essentially gatherers of information, they not only describe species which are studied in other research fields but use all available information on a species to describe and classify it. So it can be said that taxonomy is the beginning and the end result of science and our knowledge of the organisms that share this planet with us.

It is essential that researchers and scientists work together to get a better understanding of the organisms being investigated. It is not only the morphology, biology, behaviour or where the animals are found that determine if a organism is one or the other species but also the chemistry and genetics of an organism that makes it unique.

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