Vachira Lheknim

Vachira Lheknim, Thai carcinologist, ichthyologist and malacologist‎.

• Ph.D. (Tropical Marine Ecology & Fisheries Biology) James Cook University, Australia, 2002.
• B.Sc. (Aquatic Science) Prince of Songkla University, Thailand, 1983.
• Contact Details: Department of Biology, Prince of Songkla University Hatyai, Songkhla, 90112 THAILAND Phone: +66-7428-8064, +66-7428-8534 Fax: +66 74 558840 E-mail: vachira.l@psu.ac.th

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 6 taxon names authored by Vachira Lheknim

plus:

• Johora thaiana Leelawathanagoon, Lheknim & Ng, 2005
• Terrapotamon phaibuli Leelawathanagoon, Lheknim & Ng, 2010

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2004

• Lheknim, V. 2004. Annotated checklist for a collection of fishes from Tapi River Basin, south Thailand. The Natural History Journal of Chulalongkorn University 4(2): 83–98.

2005

• Leelawathanagoon, P., Lheknim, V. & Ng, P.K.L. 2005. On a new species of freshwater crab of the genus Johora (Brachyura, Potamidae) from peninsular Thailand. Crustaceana 78(1): 59-66. Brill. DOI: 10.1163/1568540054024583 PDF ResearchGate Reference page. 
• Lheknim, V. 2005. Ecological Issues in Phangnga Bay: Consequence of Land Use Patterns. Proceedings of the International Conference “Environmental Hazards and Geomorphology in Monsoon Asia: Progress in Process Study and GIS Mapping”. PSU and Japanese Geomorphological Union.

2008

• Wangkulangkul, K. & Lheknim, V. 2008. The occurrence of an invasive alien mussel Mytilopsis adamsi Morrison, 1946 (Bivalvia: Dreissenidae) in estuaries and lagoons of the lower south of the Gulf of Thailand with comments on their establishment. Aquatic Invasions 3: 325–330.

2009

• Chen, W.J., Lheknim, V. & Mayden, R.L. 2009. Molecular phylogeny of the Cobitoidea (Teleostei: Cypriniformes) revisited: position of enigmatic loach Ellopostoma resolved with six nuclear genes. J. Fish Biol. 75: 2197–2208.
• Lheknim, V. & Leelawathanagoon, P. 2009. Phricotelphusa callianira (De Man, 1887) a new record freshwater crab for Thailand. The Journal of Threatened Taxa 1: 461–465.

2010

• Leelawathanagoon, P., Lheknim, V. & Ng, P.K.L. 2010. On a new species of freshwater crab of the genus Terrapotamon (Brachyuara: Potamidae) from Peninsular Thailand. Crustaceana 83(1): 49-59. Brill. DOI: 10.1163/001121609X12481627024337 ResearchGate JSTOR Reference page. 
• Sa-nguansil & Lheknim, V. 2010. The occurrence and reproductive status of Yucatán molly Poecilia velifera (Regan, 1914) (Poeciliidae; Cyprinodontiformes): an alien fish invading the Songkhla Lake Basin, Thailand. Aquatic Invasions 5: 423–430.

2014

• Lheknim, V. & Sakai, K. 2014. Two new species of the genera Neocallichirus and Wolffogebia (Decapoda, Pleocyemata) from Thale Sap Songkhla, Songkhla Lagoon System, Songkhla Province, Thailand. Crustaceana, 87(1): 91–100. Abstract: DOI: 10.1163/15685403-00003269

2016

• Lheknim, V. & Ng, P.K.L. 2016. A new species of long-legged terrestrial Terrapotamon Ng, 1986 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) from limestone formations in Satun, southern Thailand. Zootaxa 4200(1): 143–152. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4200.1.6. Reference page. 

2019

• Yolanda, R., Sawamoto, S. & Lheknim, V. 2019. A new species in the genus Heteromysoides (Crustacea, Mysida, Mysidae) from Songkhla Lagoon, southern Thailand. Zoosystematics and Evolution, 95(2): 535–542. DOI: 10.3897/zse.95.39214 Reference page. 

2023

• Lheknim, V., Leelawathanagoon, P., & Ng, P.K.L. 2023. Demanietta sunthorni, a new species of freshwater crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Adang-Rawi Island Group, Andaman Sea, south Thailand. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 78(1): 59-66. Brill. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.8006271. PDF Reference page. 
• Tan, Z.W., Lheknim, V. & Ng, P.K.L. 2023. Stoliczia setoiyenica, a new species of freshwater crab from southern Thailand (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae). Zootaxa 5360(4): 531–544. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5360.4.4. Reference page. 
• Yolanda, R., Sriwoon, R., Lheknim, V. 2023. Additional note on the mysid Rhopalophthalmus hastatus Hanamura, Murano and Man, 2011 (Crustacea: Mysida: Mysidae) from Songkhla Lagoon, southern Thailand. Nauplius. 31: e2023017. DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2023017 . Reference page. 

2024

• Tan, Z.W., Lheknim, V. & Ng, P.K.L. 2024. A new species of freshwater crab, Demanietta moror, from a karst formation in southern Thailand (Brachyura, Potamidae). Crustaceana 97(3-4): 307-319. Brill. DOI: 10.1163/15685403-bja10362 ResearchGate Reference page.