Appukuttannair Biju Kumar

Appukuttannair Biju Kumar (A. Biju Kumar), Indian carcinologist and herpetologist

Department of Aquatic Biology & Fisheries, University of Kerala, Kariavattom, Thiruvananthapuram – 695581, Kerala, India

Taxon names authored

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18 taxon names authored by Appukuttannair Biju Kumar

Eponyms

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1 eponym of Appukuttannair Biju Kumar

Publications

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2012

Komai, T., Reshmi, R. & Kumar, A.N.B. 2012. A new species of the hermit crab genus Ciliopagurus Forest (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India. Zootaxa 3266: 53–61. Preview Reference page.
Biju Kumar, A., Sanders, K.L., George, S. & Murphy, J.C. 2012. The status of Eurostus dussumierii and Hypsirhina chinensis (Reptilia, Squamata, Serpentes): with comments on the origin of salt tolerance in homalopsid snakes. Systematics and Biodiversity 10(4): 479–489. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2012.751940 Reference page.

2014

Ali, A., Katwate, U., Philip, S., Dhaneesh, K.V., Bijukumar, A., Raghavan, R. & Dahanukar, N. 2014. Horabagrus melanosoma: a junior synonym of Horabagrus brachysoma (Teleostei: Horabagridae). Zootaxa 3881(4): 373–384. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3881.4.5 Reference page.

2015

Komai, T., Reshmi, R. & Biju Kumar, A. 2015. A new species of the hermit crab genus Paguristes Dana, 1851 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southwestern India. Zootaxa 3937(3): 517–532. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3937.3.5 Reference page.
Ng, P.K.L. & Biju Kumar, A. 2015. A new species of Afropinnotheres Manning, 1993 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae) from southwestern India, the first record of the genus from the Indian Ocean, with a review of the Pinnotheridae of India and adjacent seas. Zootaxa 3947(2): 264–274. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3947.2.8. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Ng, P.K.L. & Kumar, A.B. 2015. The species of Moloha Barnard, 1946, from the western Indian Ocean, with the description of a new species from India (Crustacea: Brachyura: Homolidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 166: 1–25. DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2015.166 Reference page.
Sreeja, V., Norman, M.D. & Biju Kumar, A. 2015. A new species of pouched octopus, Cistopus Gray, 1849 (Cephalopoda: Octopodidae) from the southwest coast of India. Zootaxa 4058(2): 244–256. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4058.2.6. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

2016

Ng, P.K.L. & Kumar, A.B. 2016. Carcinoplax fasciata, a new species of deep-water goneplacid crab from southwestern India (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea). Zootaxa 4147(2): 192–200. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4147.2.6 ResearchGate . Reference page.

2017

Chan, T-Y., Biju Kumar, A. & Yang, C-H. 2017. Photophore counts in the deep-sea commercial shrimp Aristeus alcocki Ramadan, 1938 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Aristeidae), with a revised key to the Indo-West Pacific species of the genus. Zootaxa 4329(4): 392–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.4.5. Reference page.
Ng, P.K.L., Devi, S. & Biju Kumar, A. 2017. Typhlocarcinus kerala, a new species of rhizopine crab from southwestern India, and the identity of T. craterifer Rathbun, 1914 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Pilumnidae). Zootaxa 4272(1): 131–141. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4272.1.7 Reference page.
Raj, S., Biju Kumar, A. & Ng, P.K.L. 2017. A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Oziotelphusa Müller, 1887 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from Tamil Nadu, southern India. Zootaxa 4363(2): 225–236. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4363.2.3. Reference page.
Yang, C-H., Biju Kumar, A. & Chan, T-Y. 2017. Further records of the deep-sea pandalid shrimp Heterocarpus chani Li, 2006 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) from southern India. ZooKeys 685: 151—159. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.685.13398. Reference page.
Yang, C-H., Biju Kumar, A. & Chan, T-Y. 2017. A new slipper lobster of the genus Petrarctus Holthuis, 2002 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Scyllaridae) from Southwest coast of India. Zootaxa 4329(5): 477–486. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4329.5.5 Full text PDF from ResearchGate. Reference page.

2018

Ahyong, S.T. & 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.
Arathi, A.R., Oliver, P.G., Ravinesh, R. & Biju Kumar, A. 2018. The Ashtamudi Lake short-neck clam: re-assigned to the genus Marcia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 (Bivalvia, Veneridae). Zookeys, 799: 1–20. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.799.25829 Reference page.
Aneesh, P-T., Helna, A.K., Biju Kumar, A. & Venmathi Maran, B.A. 2018. Redescription of Lernaeenicus stromatei Gnanamuthu, 1953 (Copepoda: Siphonostomatoida: Pennellidae) infesting the Black Pomfret Parastromateus niger (Bloch) from Indian waters. Zootaxa 4482(2): 375–382. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.2.9 Reference page.
Komai, T., Ravinesh, R. & Biju Kumar, A. 2018. A new species of the hermit crab genus Diogenes Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from southern India. Zootaxa 4504(2): 243–252. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4504.2.5 Reference page.
Ng, P.K.L., Devi, S. & Biju Kumar, A. 2018. The genus Parilia Wood-Mason, in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891, with description of a new species and establishment of a new genus for P. tuberculata Sakai, 1961 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Leucosiidae). PDF ResearchGate Reference page.

2019

Devi, S.S., Mendoza, J.C.E., 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.
Komai, T., Reshmi, R., Rahayu, D.L. & Biju Kumar, A. 2019. Redescription of the little known hermit crab, Clibanarius clibanarius (Herbst, 1791) (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae), based on material from southern India and type material. Zootaxa 4555(3): 372–384. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4555.3.6 Reference page.
Ng, P.K.L., Priyaja, P., Biju Kumar, A. & Devi, S. 2019. A collection of crabs (Crustacea, Brachyura) from the southwestern coast of India, with a discussion of the systematic position of Nectopanope Wood-Mason in Wood-Mason & Alcock, 1891 (Euryplacidae). Zookeys 818: 1–24. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.818.32108 Reference page.

2020

Chan, T-Y., Hsu, C-Y., Kumar, A.B. & Chang, S-C. 2020. On the “Plesionika martia” (A. Milne-Edwards, 1883) species group in Indian waters. Zootaxa 4729(1): 67–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4729.1.4 Reference page.
Chang, S-C., Chan, T-Y. & Biju Kumar, A. 2020. Deep-sea clawed lobster Nephropsis stewarti Wood-Mason, 1872 species complex in the Indo-West Pacific (Crustacea, Decapoda, Nephropidae), with description of a new species. ZooKeys, 1008: 37–60. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.1008.59966 Reference page.
Komai, T., Ravinesh, R., Riyas, A. & Kumar, A.B. 2020. New records of two sponge-associated species of Upogebia Leach, 1814 from southern India (Decapoda: Gebiidea: Upogebiidae): U. hexaceras (Ortmann, 1894) and U. nithyanandan (Sakai, Türkay & Al Aidaroos, 2015) resurrected from the synonymy of U. balmaorum Ngoc-Ho, 1990. Zootaxa 4747(3): 477–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4747.3.3 Reference page.
Macpherson, E., Chan, T-Y., Biju Kumar, A. & Rodríguez-Flores, P.C. 2020. On some squat lobsters from India (Decapoda, Anomura, Munididae), with description of a new species of Paramunida Baba, 1988. ZooKeys, 965: 17–36. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.965.55213 Reference page.
Trivedi, J.N., Ahyong, S.T., 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.

2021

Raj S., Kumar A.B. & Ng, P.K.L. 2021. Description of a new genus with two new species of freshwater crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from the southwestern Ghats, India. Zoological Studies 60:14: 1–16. DOI: 10.6620/ZS.2021.60-14 PMID: 34630721 PDF Reference page.

2022

Raj S., Kumar A.B. & Ng, P.K.L. 2022. New genus and two new species of semiterrestrial crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) from the southern Western Ghats, India. Zoological Studies 61:49: 1–16. DOI: 10.1163/15685403-bja10246 PMID: PMC9755982 PDF Reference page.

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