Shane Timothy Ahyong

Shane Timothy Ahyong, Australian carcinologist.

• Australian Museum, 6 College St., Sydney, NSW 2010, Australia, and School of Biological, Earth & Environmental Sciences, University of New South Wales, Kensington, NSW 2052, Australia.

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• 49 taxon names authored by Shane Timothy Ahyong

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• & Poore, G.C.B. 2004. Deep-water Galatheidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from southern and eastern Australia. Zootaxa 472: 1–76. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.472.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page. 

• , Chen, H. & Ng, P.K.L. 2005 Pleistacantha stilipes, a new species of spider crab from the South China Sea (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majidae). Zootaxa 822: 1–10. Abstract & excerpt ResearchGate Reference page. 
• & Ng, P.K.L. 2005. Review of Durckheimia and Xanthasia, with descriptions of two new genera (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae).. Journal of Crustacean Biology 25(1): 116-129. ResearchGate DOI: 10.1651/c-2504 Reference page. 

• 2007. Decapod Crustacea collected by the NORFANZ Expedition: Galatheidae and Polychelidae. Zootaxa 1593: 1–54. Abstract & excerpt DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1593.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• & Ng, P.K.L. 2007 The pinnotherid type material of Semper (1880), Nauck (1880) and Burger (1895) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl 16: 191–226. PDF Reference page. 
• & Ng, P.K.L. 2007 Pleistacantha ori, a new species of deep-water spider crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brahcyura: Majidae) from the western Indian Ocean. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Suppl. 16: 67-74. PDF Reference page. 

• , & Ng, P.K.L. 2008. Alain raymondi, a new species of deepwater pinnotherid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Philippines, commensal with holothurians. Zootaxa 1919: 61–68. Abstract & excerpt Reference page. 
• Hosie, A.M. & 2008. First records of the giant barnacles, Austromegabalanus nigrescens (Lamarck, 1818) and A. psittacus (Molina, 1782) (Cirripedia: Balanidae) from New Zealand, with a key to New Zealand Balanidae. Zootaxa 1674: 59–64. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1674.1.5 Reference page. 

• , & Ng, P.K.L. 2009. Aphanodactylidae, a new family of thoracotreme crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura) symbiotic with polychaete worms. Zootaxa 2289: 33–47. Abstract & excerpt ResearchGate Reference page. 
• De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., , Chan T-Y., Crandall, K.A., Dworschak, P.C., Felder, D.L., Feldmann, R.M., Fransen, C.H.J.M., Goulding, L.Y.D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M.E.Y., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Schweitzer, C.E., Tan, S.H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. 2009. A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 21: 1–109. PDF. Reference page. 

• 2010. The marine fauna of New Zealand: king crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 123: 1–194. PDF. Reference page. 
• 2010. Neolithodes flindersi, a new species of king crab from southeastern Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae). Zootaxa 2362(1): 55–62. DOI: 10.11646/ZOOTAXA.2362.1.3 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• 2010. New species and new records of Caridea (Hippolytidae: Pasiphaeidae) from New Zealand. Zootaxa 2372: 341–357. Preview PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2372.1.26 Reference page. 
• , Baba, K., MacPherson, E. & Poore, G.C.B. 2010. A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Zootaxa 2676: 57–68. Preview Reference page. 
• Low, M.E.Y. & 2010. Kempella nom. nov., a replacement name for Kempina Manning, 1978 (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae), preoccupied by Kempina Roewer, 1911, a junior synonym of Zaleptus Thorell, 1877 (Arachnida: Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae). Zootaxa 2642: 68–68. Preview PDF DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2642.1.7 Reference page. 
• Schnabel, K.E. & 2010. A new classification of the Chirostyloidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Zootaxa 2687: 56–64. Preview ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Taylor, J., & Andreakis, N. 2010. New records and new species of the munidopsine squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura: Galatheidae: Munidopsinae) from Australia. Zootaxa 2642: 1–18. Preview DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2642.1.1 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Webber, W.R., Fenwick, G.D., Bradford-Grieve, J.M., Eagar, S.H., Buckeridge, J.S., Poore, G.C.B., Dawson, E.W., Watling, L., Jones, J.B., Wells, J.B.J., Bruce, N.L., , Larsen, K., Chapman, M.A., Olesen, J., Ho, J.-S., Green, J.D., Shiel, R.J., Rocha, C.E.F., Lörz, A.-N., Bird, G.J. & Charleston, W.A. 2010. 8. Phylum Arthropoda subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. Pp. 98–232 in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) 2010. New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. Reference page.  ResearchGate . Academia.edu . Reference page. 

• , Lowry, J.K., Alonso, M., Bamber, R.N., Boxshall, G.A., Castro, P., Gerken, S., Karaman, G.S., Goy, J.W., Jones, D.S., Meland, K., Rogers, D.C. & Svavarsson, J. 2011. Subphylum Crustacea Brünnich, 1772. Pp 165–191 In Zhang, Z.-Q. (ed.) 2011. Animal biodiversity: an outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness. Zootaxa 3148: 1–237. Open access. Reference page.  ISBN 978-1-86977-849-1 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-86977-850-7 (online edition). PDF. Reference page. 
• Kilgallen, N.M. & 2011. The genus Mallacoota (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Maeridae) in New Zealand. Zootaxa 2929: 22–36. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2929.1.2 . Reference page. 
• Read, G.B., Inglis, G., Stratford, P. & 2011. Arrival of the alien fanworm Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in two New Zealand harbours. Aquatic invasions 6(3): 273–279. DOI: 10.3391/ai.2011.6.3.04 . Reference page. 

• 2012: Polychelid lobsters (Decapoda: Polychelida: Polychelidae) collected by the CIDARIS expeditions off Central Queensland, with a summary of Australian and New Zealand distributions. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum - Nature 56(1): 1–8. Reference page. 
• 2012. The marine fauna of New Zealand: mantis shrimps (Crustacea: Stomatopoda). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir (125) Reference page. 
• 2012. Stomatopod Crustacea of the KUMEJIMA 2009 Expedition, Japan. Zootaxa 3367: 232–251. Preview Reference page. 
• Naruse, T., Chan, T.-Y., Tan, H.H., & Reimer, J.D. (eds.) 2012. Scientific results of the Kumejima Marine Biodiversity Expedition—KUMEJIMA 2009. Zootaxa 3367: 1-280. special issue [erratum in Zootaxa 3390: 68–68. Preview PDF (2012)] Reference page. 
• Naruse, T., Chan, T.-Y., Tan, H.H., & Reimer, J.D. 2012. Scientific Results of the Kumejima Marine Biodiversity Expedition — KUMEJIMA 2009 — Editorial. Zootaxa 3367: 5–7. Preview Reference page. 

• 2013. Munidopsis kareenae, a new species of seamount squat lobster from New Zealand with a key to the New Zealand species of Munidopsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munidopsidae). Zootaxa 3599(5): 490–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3599.5.6 Reference page. 
• & Low, M.E.Y. 2013. Miyakella nom. nov., a replacement name for Miyakea Manning, 1995, (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae), preoccupied by Miyakea Marumo, 1933 (Insecta: Lepidoptera: Crambidae). Zootaxa 3616(1): 99–100. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3616.1.9 Reference page. 
• & Low, M.E.Y. 2013. Cancer (Mantis) digitalis Herbst, 1793, an objective synonym of Oratosquillina quinquedentata (Brooks, 1886): neotype designation and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae). Zootaxa 3691(5): 597–600. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3691.5.6 Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L. & 2013: Discovery of a new genus and new species of Indo-West Pacific pilumnoidid crab from a semisubmersible oil platform (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pseudozioidea). Zootaxa 3682(4): 513–520. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3682.4.2 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Richer de Forges, B., Ng, P.K.L. & 2013: Parapleisticantha Yokoya, 1933, a valid genus of deep-sea inachid spider crab from Japan and the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea), with the description of a new species. Zootaxa 3635(1): 15–26. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3635.1.2 ResearchGate PDF Reference page. 
• Ebach, M.C., Gill, A.C., Kwan, A., , Murphy, D.J. & Cassis, G. 2013. Corrections to a recently published area taxonomy of Australia. Zootaxa 3652(2): 299–300. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3652.2.9 Reference page. 

• 2014. Deep-sea squat lobsters of the Munidopsis serricornis complex in the Indo-West Pacific, with descriptions of six new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Munidopsidae). Records of the Australian Museum 66(3): 197–216. DOI: 10.3853/j.2201-4349.66.2014.1630 Reference page. 
• 2014: Paramoguai kavieng, a new genus and species of camptandriid crab from Papua New Guinea (Crustacea: Brachyura). Zootaxa 3856(4): 578–584. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3856.4.6 Reference page. 

• 2015. Preliminary diagnoses of three new species of Tasmanian mountain shrimps, Anaspides Thomson, 1894 (Syncarida, Anaspidacea, Anaspididae). Zootaxa 3957(5): 596–599. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3957.5.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• & Wassenberg, T.J. 2015. The rare mantis shrimp Areosquilla indica (Hansen, 1976) (Crustacea, Stomatopoda) from the Great Barrier Reef: first Australian records of the genus and species. Zootaxa 4000(4): 492–496. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4000.4.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 
• Schnabel, K.E. & 2015. Two new species of Munidopsis (Crustacea: Anomura: Munidopsidae) from the Kermadec and Louisville ridge systems off New Zealand. Zootaxa 3995(1): 241–251. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3995.1.20. Preview (PDF) Reference page. 

• Wang, T-W., & Chan, T-Y. 2016. First records of Lithodes longispina Sakai, 1971 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Lithodidae) from southwestern Taiwan, including a site in the vicinity of a cold seep. Zootaxa 4066(2): 173–176. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4066.2.6. Reference page. 

• 2017. Stomatopod Crustacea of the Austral and Gambier Islands, French Polynesia. Zootaxa 4286(4): 555–564. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4286.4.8. Reference page. 
• , Tan, S.H., Low, M.E.Y. & Macpherson, E. 2017. Cancer strigosus Linnaeus, 1760: neotype selection, its identification with Cancer cancharus Linnaeus, 1758, and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Decapoda: Galatheidae). Zootaxa 4323(3): 440–444. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4323.3.12. Reference page. 
• Low, M.E.Y. & 2017. Cancer neptuni Linnaeus, 1768 (now Alima neptuni): original description, authorship and date of publication (Crustacea: Stomatopoda: Squillidae). Zootaxa 4319(2): 373–374. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4319.2.7. Reference page. 
• McCormack, R.B. & 2017. Euastacus vesper sp. nov., a new giant spiny crayfish (Crustacea, Decapoda, Parastacidae) from the Great Dividing Range, New South Wales, Australia. Zootaxa 4244(4): 566–567. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4244.4.6 Reference page. 
• Schnabel, K.E., Burghardt, I. & 2017. Southern high latitude squat lobsters II: description of Uroptychus macquariae sp. nov. from Macquarie Ridge. Zootaxa 4353(2): 327–338. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4353.2.4. Reference page. 

• & Farrelly, C.A. 2018. First Australian records of Ethusina (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ethusidae) and additional records from New Zealand. Zootaxa 4486(2): 161–168. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4486.2.5 Reference page. 
• & Biju Kumar, A. 2018. First records of seven species of mantis shrimp from India (Crustacea: Stomatopoda). Zootaxa 4370(4): 381–394. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4370.4.4 Reference page. 
• Baba, K., & Schnabel, K.E. 2018. Rediagnosis of the squat lobster genus Gastroptychus Caullery, 1896, with a new genus Sternostylus and a new family Sternostylidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Chirostyloidea). Zootaxa 4524(1): 77–86. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4524.1.5 Reference page. 
• Huang, C., Wong, K.C. & 2018. The freshwater crabs of Macau, with the description of a new species of Nanhaipotamon Bott, 1968 and the redescription of Nanhaipotamon wupingense Cheng, Yang, Zhong & Li, 2003 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae). Zookeys, 810: 91–111. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.810.30726 Reference page. 
• Hwang, H-S., & Kim, W. 2018. A new species of Chorisquilla Manning, 1969 (Stomatopoda: Protosquillidae) from Korea and Japan with redescription of C. mehtae Erdmann & Manning, 1998. Zootaxa 4483(2): 365–374. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4483.2.8 Reference page. 
• Lee, B.Y., , Low, M.E.Y. & Ng, P.K.L. 2018. Hyastenus verreauxii A. Milne-Edwards, 1872, a synonym of Hyastenus elatus Griffin & Tranter, 1986: lectotype designation and reversal of precedence (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majoidea: Epialtidae). Zootaxa 4497(1): 145–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4497.1.10 Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L. & 2018 New species of reef spider crabs of the genus Schizophroida Sakai, 1933 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Majidae) from the Western Pacific. Records of the Australian Museum 70(4): 377-390. PDF Reference page. 
• Thomson, S.A., Pyle, R.L., , Alonso-Zarazaga, M.A., Ammirati, J., Araya, J.F., et al. 2018. Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLOS Biology 16(3): e2005075. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075 Reference page. 
• MacIntosh, H. et al. 2018. Invertebrate diversity in the deep Great Australian Bight (200–5000 m). Marine Biodiversity Records. 11(23): 1–17. DOI: 10.1186/s41200-018-0158-x

• 2019. Discovery of the sponge-associated caridean genus Paralebbeus in New Zealand and southeastern Australia: P. pegasus sp. nov. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thoridae). Zootaxa 4652(2): 375–383. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4652.2.10 Reference page. 
• & Boyko, C. 2019. Rhopalione kali sp. nov., first known epicaridean parasite on the Malaysian pinnotherid crab, Serenotheres besutensis (Serène, 1967). Zootaxa 4590(2): 283–288. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.2.5 Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L., & Campos, E. 2019 Two new genera of pinnotherid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheroidea) from the Americas and the Western Pacific. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 67: 337-351. PDF Reference page. 
• Schnabel, K.E. & 2023. The squat lobster genus genus Phylladiorhynchus Baba, 1969 in New Zealand and eastern Australia, with description of six new species. Zootaxa 4688(3): 301–347. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4688.3.1 Reference page. 

• 2020. Discovery of Viridotheres Manning, 1996 in the southwestern Pacific and first record of Discorsotheres camposi Ahyong, 2018 from New Caledonia (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae). Zootaxa 4763(3): 429–434. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4763.3.7 Reference page. 
• , & Ng, P.K.L. 2020 New species of pinnotherid crabs from Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa 4816(3): 333–349. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4816.3.4 ResearchGate Reference page. 
• , Porter, M.L. & Caldwell, R.L. 2020. The Leopard Mantis Shrimp, Ankersquilla pardus, a new genus and species of eurysquillid from Indo-West Pacific coral reefs. Records of the Australian Museum. 72(1): 1-8. DOI: 10.3853/J.2201-4349.72.2020.1758 Reference page. 
• Guerra-García, J.M., Keable, S.J. & 2020. A new species of Paraproto (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from southern New South Wales, Australia. Zootaxa 4755(2): 271–293. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4755.2.4 Reference page. 
• Huang, C., & Shih, H-T. 2020. The second known stygomorphic freshwater crab from China, Phasmon typhlops gen. nov. et sp. nov. (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae), diverged at the beginning of the Late Miocene. ZooKeys, 1008: 1–5. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1008.58854 Reference page. 
• Trivedi, J.N., , Vachhrajani, K.D. & Kumar, A.B. 2020. An annotated checklist of the mantis shrimps of India (Crustacea: Stomatopoda). Zootaxa 4768(2): 221–238. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4768.2.4 Reference page. 

• Colgan, D.J., , Mardon, K. & Brereton, I.M. 2021. Rare specimen identification in an un-integrated taxonomy: implications of DNA sequences from a Taiwanese Philine (Mollusca, Philinidae). ZooKeys 1060: 93–110. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1060.28809 Reference page. 

• Ng, P.K.L. & 2022. The pea crab genus Arcotheres Manning, 1993 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) from Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia, with a reappraisal of diagnostic characters and descriptions of two new genera. Raffles bulletin of Zoology 70: 134–248. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2022-0009. . Full article. Reference page. 

• & Ng, P.K.L. 2024. The identities of Pinnotheres villosulus Guérin-Méneville, 1832, P. edwardsi De Man, 1887, and P. trichopus Tesch, 1918, with description of a new Indo-West Pacific genus of pinnotherid crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) Journal of Crustacean Biology 44(3): ruae047 [1–10]. ResearchGate DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruae047 Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L. & 2024. Redefining Lophoplax Tesch, 1918: recognising Myopilumnus Deb, 1989, and the establishment of three new genera, Hosekia, Takedaplax, and Striacoeloma (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pilumnidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 72: 335–355. DOI: 10.26107/RBZ-2024-0027. . Reference page. 

• Huang, C., Shih, H-T. & Ahyong, S.T. 2025. Four new freshwater crab species of the genus Megapleonum Huang, Shih & Ahyong, 2018 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae) from Guangdong, China ZooKeys 1244: 1–27. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1244.148112 Reference page. 
• Seid, C.A., Hiley, A.S., McCowin, M.F., Carvajal, J.I., Cha, H., Ahyong, S.T., Ashford, O.S., Breedy, O., Eernisse, D.J., Goffredi, S.K., Hendrickx, M.E., Kocot, K.M., Mah, C.L., Miller, A.K., Koch, N.M., Mooi, R., O'Hara, T.D., Pleijel, F., Stiller, J., Tilic, E., Valentich-Scott, P., Warén, A., Wicksten, M.K., Wilson, N.G., Cordes, E.E., Levin, L.A., Cortés, J. & Rouse, G.W. 2025. A faunal inventory of methane seeps on the Pacific margin of Costa Rica. ZooKeys 1222: 1–250. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1222.134385 Reference page.