Shane T. Ahyong

Shane T. 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.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 17 taxon names authored by Shane T. Ahyong

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

2008

• Hosie, A.M. & Ahyong, S.T. 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/%25x Reference page. 

2009

• De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., Ahyong, S.T., 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

• Ahyong, S.T. 2010. The marine fauna of New Zealand: king crabs of New Zealand, Australia and the Ross Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Lithodidae). NIWA biodiversity memoir 123. PDF. Reference page. 
• Ahyong, S.T. 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 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. 

2012

• Ahyong, S.T. 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. 
• Ahyong, S.T. 2012a. The marine fauna of New Zealand: mantis shrimps (Crustacea: Stomatopoda). NIWA biodiversity memoir (125) Reference page. 

2013

• Ebach, M.C., Gill, A.C., Kwan, A., Ahyong, S.T., 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

• Ahyong, S.T. 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. 
• Ahyong, S.T. 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

• Ahyong, S.T. 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. 
• Ahyong, S.T. & 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. & Ahyong, S.T. 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. 

2016

• Wang, T-W., Ahyong, S.T. & 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

• Ahyong, S.T. 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. 
• Ahyong, S.T., 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. & Ahyong, S.T. 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. & Ahyong, S.T. 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. & Ahyong, S.T. 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. 

2018

• Ahyong, S.T. & 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. 
• Ahyong, S.T. & 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. 
• 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. 
• Baba, K., Ahyong, S.T. & 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. & Ahyong, S.T. 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., Ahyong, S.T. & 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., Ahyong, S.T., 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. 
• Thomson, S.A., Pyle, R.L., Ahyong, S.T., 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

2020

• Ahyong, Shane T., Porter, Caldwell 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. 
• Huang, C., Ahyong, S.T. & 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. 

2021

• Colgan, D.J., Ahyong, S.T., 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.