Peter Castro

Peter Castro, U.S. malacologist

• Q211830, Biological Sciences Department, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona California

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 9 taxon names authored by Peter Castro

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2010

• Castro, P.; Ng, P.K.L. 2010: Revision of the family Euryplacidae Stimpson, 1871 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea). Zootaxa 2375: 1–130. Preview PDF Reference page. 
• Castro, P & Ng, P.K.L. 2010. A new genus and species of goneplacid crab (Decapoda, Brachyura, Goneplacidae) from the Western Pacific. In: Ng, P.K.L., Castro, P., Davie, P.J.F., & Richer de Forges, B. (eds.) Studies on Brachyura: a homage to Danièle Guinot. Crustaceana Monographs 11: 51-60. Koninklijke Brill, Leiden. ISBN 978-90-47-42417-8. DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004170865.i-366.40 PDF Reference page. 

2011

• Ahyong, S.T., 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. 

2013

• Ng, P.K.L. & Castro, P. 2013 On the genus Scalopidia Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Goneplacoidea: Scalopidiidae), with the description of one new genus and three new species. Zootaxa 3731(1): 58–76. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.1.2 Reference page. 

2016

• Ng, P.K.L. & Castro, P. 2016. Revision of the family Chasmocarcinidae Serène, 1964 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Goneplacoidea). Zootaxa 4209(1): 1–182. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4209.1.1. Reference page. 

2017

• Boyko, C.B., Mendoza, J.C.E. & 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. 

2020

• Ng, P.K.L. & Castro, P. 2020. A revision of Carcinoplax abyssicola (Miers, 1885) and seven related species of Carcinoplax H. Milne Edwards, 1852, with the description of two new species and an updated key to the genus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Goneplacidae) Zoosystema 42(17): 239–284. DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2020v42a17 . Reference page.