William Macnae, 1914-1975, was a South African zoologist and malacologist. He was a Scottish born and educated marine ecologist who moved permanently to South Africa in 1948. Most of his research was performed while on staff at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Species named in honor of this malacologist include:
Elysia macnaei Marcus, Ev., 1982 - a sacoglossan sea slug
Symsagittifera macnaei (Marcus, Ev., 1957) - an acoel flatworm
The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) lists 24 marine species named by MacNae.
Papers and books published by MacNae include:
Macnae, W. (1939). Crustacea. In: Bertram, D.S. (ed.). Natural History of Canna and Sanday, Inner Hebrides: a report upon the Glasgow University Canna Expeditions, 1936 and 1937. Proc. R. phys. Soc. Edinb. 23:65-66. (ii-1939)
Macnae, W. (1950). An archiannelid from South Africa. Nature 166: 38.
Macnae, W. (1953). On a small collection of amphipods from Tristan de Cunha. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 122, 1025-1033.
Macnae, W. (1954). On Some Eolidacean Nudibranchiate Mollusca from South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 13: 1-50
Macnae, W. (1954). On four Sacoglossan Molluscs new to South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 13: 51-64, pl. III.
Macnae, W. (1955). On four species of the genus Aplysia common in South Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum 13 (2): 223-241.
Macnae, W. (1956). Aspects of life on muddy shores in South Africa. South African Journal of Science 53: 40.
Macnae, W. (1957). The ecology of the plants and animals in the intertidal region of the Zwartkops estuary near Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Part I. Journal of Ecology 45: 113-131.
Macnae, W. (1957). The Families Polyceridae and Goniodorididae (Mollusca, Nudibranchiata) in Southern Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa. 35(4): 341-372.
Macnae, W. (1962). The fauna and flora of the eastern coasts of southern Africa inrelation to ocean currents. South African Journal of Science 58: 208-212.
Macnae, W. (1963). Mangrove swamps in South Africa. Journal of Ecology 51: 1-25.
Macnae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp.
Macnae, W. & M. Kalk (1962). The fauna and flora of sand flats at Inhaca Island, Moçambique. Journal of Animal Ecology 31: 93-128, 5 figs.
Macnae, W. and Kalk, M. (1962). The ecology of the mangrove swamps at Inhaca Island, Mocambique. Journal of Ecology 50: 19-34.
