Jose Christopher Escaño Mendoza

Jose Christopher Escaño Mendoza, Singaporean carcinologist.

Lee Kong Chian Natural History Museum, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, 2 Conservatory Drive, 117377 Singapore.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

& Ng, P.K.L. 2007. Macrophthalmus (Euplax) H. Milne Edwards, 1852, a Valid Subgenus of Ocypodoid Crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae), with Description of a New Species from the Philippines. Journal of Crustacean Biology 27(4): 670-680. ResearchGate DOI: 10.1651/S-2779.1 Reference page.

& Ng, P.K.L. 2008. A new species of Alainodaeus Davie, 1993 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from Balicasag Island, Philippines, with a key to the genus. Zootaxa 1897: 53–63. Abstract & excerpt Reference page.
& Ng, P.K.L. 2008. New genera and species of euxanthine crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from the Bohol Sea, the Philippines. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 56(2):385-404. ResearchGate Reference page.
Naruse, T., & Ng, P.K.L. 2008. Descriptions of five new species of false spider crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae) from the Philippines. Marine Biology Research 4(6), 429-441. DOI: 10.1080/17451000802232866 PDF Reference page.

Lasley, R.M.Jr., & Ng, P.K.L. 2010. Two new species of Guitonia Garth & Iliffe, 1992 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from the central and western Pacific Ocean.. Zootaxa 2684: 1–13. Preview Reference page.

& Guinot, D. 2011. Revision of the genus Glyptoxanthus A. Milne-Edwards, 1879, and establishment of Glyptoxanthinae nov. subfam. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae). Zootaxa 3015: 29–51. Preview Reference page.
& Ng, P.K.L. 2011. The Polydectinae Dana, 1851, of the Philippines, with description of a new genus for Lybia hatagumoana Sakai, 1961 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae). Zootaxa 3052: 51–61. Preview Reference page.
& Ng, P.K.L. 2011. Leelumnus radium, a new genus and species of pilumnid crab from marine encrusting communities in Singapore (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Pilumnidae). Zootaxa 2809: 58–66. Preview Reference page.

, Clark, P.F. & Ng, P.K.L. 2012. The identity of Pilumnoplax acanthomerus Rathbun, 1911 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae), with new records from the central and western Pacific. Zootaxa 3367: 211–221. Preview Reference page.
& Manuel-Santos, M.R. 2012. Revision of Garthiella Titgen, 1986 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae), with description of a new subfamily and a new species from the central Philippines. Zootaxa 3446: 32–48. Preview Reference page.
& Ng, P.K.L. 2012. A new genus and species of deep-water xanthid crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Xanthidae) from the Philippines. In: Komatsu, H., Okuno, J., Fukuoka, K. (eds.) Studies on Eumalacostraca: a homage to Masatsune Takeda. Crustaceana Monographs 17: 197-210. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden. ISBN 9789004202894. DOI: 10.1163/9789004202894_017 ResearchGate Reference page.

Husana, D.E.M., Kase, T. & 2013. A new species of false spider crab of the genus Elamena H. Milne Edwards, 1837 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Hymenosomatidae), from Davao Gulf, Philippines. Zootaxa 3616(5): 495–500. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.5.6 Reference page.
Low, M.E.Y. & 2013. Identification of Cancer lactatus Linnaeus, 1758 with Lophozozymus pictor (Fabricius, 1798) and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae). Zootaxa 3683(3): 292–294. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3683.3.6 Reference page.
2013. A new species of ocellated Xanthias Rathbun, 1897 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from the Bohol Sea, Philippines. Zootaxa 3636(2): 374–384. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3636.2.8 Reference page.

Boyko, C.B., & Castro, P. 2017. New records of coral-associated crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Carpilioidea, Trapezoidea) from Easter Island. Zootaxa 4216(5): 487–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.5.5. Reference page.
& Devi, S.S. 2017. A new species of the swimming crab genus, Laleonectes Manning & Chace, 1990 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae), from the western Indian Ocean. Zootaxa 4323(2): 219–228. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.2.5. Reference page.
& Ng, P.K.L. 2017. Harryplax severus, a new genus and species of an unusual coral rubble-inhabiting crab from Guam (Crustacea, Brachyura, Christmaplacidae). ZooKeys 647: 23–35. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.647.11455 Reference page.

Devi, S.S., , Ravinesh, R., Babu, K.K.I., Kumar, A.B. & Ng, P.K.L. 2019. On a collection of brachyuran crabs from Lakshadweep, Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa 4613(3): 477–501. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4613.3.4 Reference page.
Windsor, A.M., & Deeds, J.R. 2019. Resolution of the Portunus gladiator species complex: taxonomic status and identity of Monomia gladiator (Fabricius, 1798) and Monomia haanii (Stimpson, 1858) (Brachyura, Decapoda, Portunidae). Zookeys, 858: 11–43. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.858.33826 Reference page.

Lagare, N.J.S., Mapi-Ot, E.F., Molina, Z.S., Neri, J.B., Nuñeza, O.M. & Mendoza, J.C.E. 2020. On a collection of freshwater and estuarine crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) from Mindanao Island, the Philippines. Zootaxa 4868(3): 301–330. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4868.3.1 Reference page.
Mitra, S., Trivedi, J.N. & 2020. On the two ‘forms’ of Dotilla intermedia De Man, 1888 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dotillidae) from the Bay of Bengal, India, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 4809(3): 521–534. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4809.3.6 Reference page.
Ng, P.K.L. & 2020. Echoes from the past – the identity of Sundathelphusa picta (von Martens, 1868) and descriptions of two new species of freshwater crab (Crustacea, Brachyura, Gecarcinucidae, Sundathelphusa) from Luzon Island, the Philippines. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology 8(2014): 1–15. PDF Reference page.
Shahdadi, A., Schubart, C.D. & 2020. On the occurrence of Parasesarma cricotum (Rahayu & Davie, 2002) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Sesarmidae) in Palau and Sulawesi. Zootaxa 4803(2): 397–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4803.2.12 Reference page.

Prema, M., Ravichandran, S. & 2023. A new species of the xanthid crab genus Banareia A. Milne-Edwards, 1869 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Xanthidae) from the Bay of Bengal, southeastern India. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 71: 387–399. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2023-0029. .Reference page.

Ng, P.K.L. & 2024. A new species of freshwater crab, Sundathelphusa roberti (Brachyura, Gecarcinucidae) from highlands in Batangas, Luzon, Philippines. Crustaceana 97(3–4): 221–233. Brill. DOI: 10.1163/15685403-bja10364 Reference page.

Hsu, J-W., Mendoza, J.C.E. & Shih, H-T. 2025. A new species of Ptychognathus Stimpson, 1858, from East and Southeast Asia, previously identified as Ptychognathus barbatus (A. Milne-Edwards, 1873) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Varunidae). ZooKeys 1243: 269–288. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1243.152263 Reference page.