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Prof. Dr Ahyong, Shane
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Shane Ahyong has been an editor and promoter of WoRMS for a number of years and is responsible for four groups of Crustacea: Anaspidacea, Stomatopoda, Lithodoidea, and Polychelida. He has a distinguished 25-year career as a crustacean taxonomist with over 300 published papers and book chapters, many of which are substantial revisions of groups such as mantis shrimps, squat lobsters and brachyuran crabs. He has interests in the biology of introduced species. He maintains strong local and international collaborations and is the supervisor of several post-graduate students. Shane was a co-editor of The Biology of Squat Lobsters (CSIRO Publishing, 2011), the winner of the 2012 Whitley Book Award. He was president of The Crustacean Society (2013–2014), is an editor Zootaxa, and serves on the International Commission of Zoological Nomenclature (ICZN). He is currently serving on the WoRMS Steering Committee.

Taxonomic terms: Lithodoidea Samouelle, 1819 [WoRMS]; Polychelida [WoRMS]; Stomatopoda [WoRMS]

Australian Museum; Marine Invertebrates, more

Function: Research Scientist
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WoRMS Steering Committee (SC), more

Function: Chair

DecaNet eds., more

Function: Taxonomic editor

WoRMS Editorial Board (WoRMS editors), more

Function: Taxonomic editor

DecaNet eds. (2024). DecaNet. Accessed at https://www.decanet.info on yyyy-mm-dd, more
WRiMS: Rius, M.; Ahyong, S.; Costello, M. J.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Katsanevakis, S.; Lejeusne, C.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Poore, G. C. B; Robinson, T. B.; Sterrer, W.; Turon, X.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2022). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Accessed at https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced on yyyy-mm-dd, more

A1 Publications (16) [show]
Chang, S.-C.; Ahyong, S.T.; Tsang, L.-M. (2024). Molecular phylogeny of deep-sea blind lobsters of the family Polychelidae (Decapoda: Polychelida), with implications for the origin and evolution of these “living fossils”. Mol. Phylogenet. Evol. 192: 107998. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107998, more Vandepitte, L.; Dekeyzer, S.; Decock, W.; Delgat, L.; Boydens, B.; Tyberghein, L.; Vanhoorne, B.; Hernandez, F.; Mees, J.; Horton, T.; Kroh, A.; Boyko, C.B.; Ahyong, S.T. (2024). The World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) through the looking glass: insights from the data management team in light of the crystal anniversary of WoRMS. Hydrobiologia 2024. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10750-024-05688-y, more De Grave, S.; Decock, W.; Dekeyzer, S.; Davie, P.J.F.; Fransen, C.H.J.M.; Boyko, C.B.; Poore, G.C.B.; MacPherson, E.; Ahyong, S.T.; Crandall, K.A.; de Mazancourt, V.; Osawa, M.; Chan, T.-Y.; Ng, P.K.L.; Lemaitre, R.; van der Meij, S.E.T.; Santos, S. (2023). Benchmarking global biodiversity of decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda). J. Crust. Biol. 43(3): ruad042. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruad042, more Rheindt, F.E.; Ahyong, S.T.; Azevedo-Santos, V.M.; Bertling, M.; Bouchard, P.; Evenhuis, N.; Harvey, M.; Irham, M.; Krell, F.-T.; Pape, T.; Peterson, A.T.; Prawiradilaga, D.M.; Pyle, R.; Rasmussen, P.; Welter-Schultes, F.; Winker, K. (2021). Response to O’Connell et al. (2020): there are multiple ways to adapt taxonomy to conservation goals. Biodivers. Conserv. 30(1): 249-251. https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10531-020-02086-3, more Richer de Forges, B.; Ahyong, S.T.; Castro, P.; Chan, T.-Y.; Clark, P.F.; Lemaitre, R.; MacPherson, E.; Ng, P.L.K.; Poore, G.C.B.; Poupin, J.; Tavares, M. (2021). Alain Crosnier’s role in modern carcinology: exploration, international collaboration, and taxonomy. J. Crust. Biol. 41(3): ruab031. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruab031, more Thomson, S.A.; Pyle, R.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Alonso-Zarazaga, M.; Ammirati, J.; Araya, J.F.; Ascher, J.S.; Audisio, T.L.; Azevedo-Santos, V.M.; Bailly, N.; Baker, W.J.; Balke, M.; Barclay, M.V.L.; Barrett, R.L.; Benine, R.C.; Bickerstaff, J.R.M.; Bouchard, P.; Bour, R.; Bourgoin, T.; Boyko, C.B.; Breure, A.S.H.; Brothers, D.J.; Byng, J.W.; Campbell, D.; Ceríaco, L.M.P.; Cernák, I.; Cerretti, P.; Chang, C.-H.; Cho, S.; Copus, J.M.; Costello, M.J.; Cseh, A.; Csuzdi, C.; Culham, A.; D'Elía, G.; d'Udekem d'Acoz, C.; Daneliya, M.E.; Dekker, R.; Dickinson, E.C.; Dickinson, T.A.; van Dijk, P.P.; Dijkstra, K.-D.B.; Dima, B.; Dmitriev, D.A.; Duistermaat, L.; Dumbacher, J.P.; Eiserhardt, W.L.; Ekrem, T.; Evenhuis, N.L.; Faille, A.; Fiesler, E.; Fishbein, M.; Fordham, B.G.; Freitas, A.V.L.; Friol, N.R.; Fritz, U.; Frøslev, T.; Funk, V.A.; Gaimari, S.D.; Garraffoni, A.R.S.; Geml, J.; Gill, A.C.; Gray, A.; Grazziotin, F.G.; Greenslade, P.; Gutiérrez, E.E.; Harvey, M.S.; Hazevoet, C.J.; He, K.; He, X.; Helfer, S.; Helgen, K.M.; van Heteren, A.H.; Hita Garcia, F.; Holstein, N.; Horváth, M.K.; Hovenkamp, P.H.; Hwang, W.S.; Hyvönen, J.; Islam, M.B.; Iverson, J.B.; Ivie, M.A.; Jaafar, Z.; Jackson, M.D.; Jayat, J.P.; Johnson, N.F.; Kaiser, H.; Klitgård, B.B.; Knapp, D.G.; Kojima, J.; Kõljalg, U.; Kontschán, J.; Krell, F.-T.; Krisai-Greilhuber, I.; Kullander, S.; Latella, L.; Lattke, J.E.; Lencioni, V.; Lewis, G.P.; Lujan, N.K.; Luksenburg, J.A.; Mariaux, J.; Marinho-Filho, J.; Marshall, C.J.; McDonough, M.M.; Michel, E.; Miranda, V.F.O.; Mitroiu, M.-D.; Molinari, J.; Monks, S.; Moore, A.J.; Moratelli, R.; Murányi, D.; Nakano, T.; Nikolaeva, S.; Noyes, J.; Ohl, M.; Oleas, N.H.; Orrell, T.; Páll-Gergely, B.; Pape, T.; Papp, V.; Parenti, L.R.; Patterson, D.; Pavlinov, I.Y.; Pine, R.H.; Poczai, P.; Prado, J.; Prathapan, D.; Rabeler, R.K.; Randall, J.E.; Rheindt, F.E.; Rhodin, A.G.J.; Rodriguez, S.M.; Rogers, D.C.; de O. Roque, F.; Rowe, K.C.; Ruedas, L.A.; Salazar-Bravo, J.; Salvador, R.B.; Sangster, G.; Sarmiento, C.E.; Schigel, D.S.; Schmidt, S.; Schueler, F.W.; Segers, H.; Snow, N.; Souza-Dias, P.G.B.; Stals, R.; Stenroos, S.; Stone, R.D.; Sturm, C.F.; Štys, P.; Teta, P.; Thomas, D.C.; Timm, R.M.; Tindall, B.J.; Todd, J.A.; Triebel, D.; Valdecasas, A.G.; Vizzini, A.; Vorontsova, M.S.; de Vos, J.M.; Wagner, P.; Watling, L.; Weakley, A.; Welter-Schultes, F.; Whitmore, D.; Wilding, N.; Will, K.; Williams, J.; Wilson, K.; Winston, J.E.; Wüster, W.; Yanega, D.; Yeates, D.K.; Zaher, H. (2018). Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation. PLoS Biology 16(3): e2005075. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.2005075, more Poore, A.G.B.; Ahyong, S.T.; Lowry, J.K.; Sotka, E.E. (2017). Plant feeding promotes diversification in the Crustacea. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 114(33): 8829-8834. https://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706399114, more Poore, G.C.B.; Hyžný, M.; Chan, T.-Y.; Tamaki, A.; Mantelatto, F.L.; Karasawa, H.; Tsang, L.M.; Lemaitre, R.; Dworschak, P.C.; Ahyong, S.T.; Robles, R.; Komai, T.; Felder, D.L.; Schweitzer, C.E.; Feldmann, R.M.; Chu, K.H.; Martin, J.W.; Crandall, K.A.; Ngoc-Ho, N.; Tudge, C.C.; Bracken-Grissom, H.D.; Li, X. (2014). On stabilising the names of the infraorders of thalassinidean shrimps, Axiidea de Saint Laurent, 1979 and Gebiidea de Saint Laurent, 1979 (Decapoda). Crustaceana 87(10): 1258-1272. https://dx.doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003354, more Ahyong, S.T.; Low, M.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. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3616.1.9, more Appeltans, W.; Ahyong, S.T.; Anderson, G.; Angel, M.V.; Artois, T.; Bailly, N.; Bamber, R.N.; Barber, A.; Bartsch, I.; Berta, A.; Blazewicz-Paszkowycz , M.; Bock, P.; Boxshall, G.; Boyko, C.B.; Nunes Brandão, S.; Bray, R.A.; Bruce, N.L.; Cairns, S.D.; Chan, T.-Y.; Cheng, L.; Collins, A.G.; Cribb, T.H.; Curini-Galletti, M.; Dahdouh-Guebas, F.; Davie, P.J.F.; Dawson, M.N.; De Clerck, O.; Decock, W.; De Grave, S.; de Voogd, N.J.; Domning, D.P.; Emig, C.C.; Erséus, Ch.; Eschmeyer, W.; Fauchald, K.; Fautin, D.G.; Feist, S.W.; Fransen, C.H.J.M.; Furuya, H.; García-Alvarez, O.; Gerken, S.; Gibson, D.; Gittenberger, A.; Gofas, S.; Gómez-Daglio, L.; Gordon, D.P.; Guiry, M.D.; Hernandez, F.; Hoeksema, B.W.; Hopcroft, R.R.; Jaume, D.; Kirk, P.; Koedam, N.; Koenemann, S.; Kolb, J.B.; Kristensen, R.M.; Kroh, A.; Lambert, G.; Lazarus, D.B.; Lemaitre, R.; Longshaw, M.; Lowry, J.; MacPherson, E.; Madin, L.P.; Mah, C.; Mapstone, G.; McLaughlin, P.A.; Mees, J.; Meland, K.; Messing, C.G.; Mills, C.E.; Molodtsova, T.N.; Mooi, R.; Neuhaus, B.; Ng, P.K.L.; Nielsen, C.; Norenburg, J.; Opresko, D.M.; Osawa, M.; Paulay, G.; Perrin, W.; Pilger, J.F.; Poore, G.C.B.; Pugh, Ph.R.; Read, G.B.; Reimer, J.D.; Rius, M.; Rocha, R.M.; Sáiz Salinas, J.I.; Scarabino, V.; Schierwater, B.; Schmidt-Rhaesa, A.; Schnabel, K.E.; Schotte, M.; Schuchert, P.; Schwabe, E.; Segers, H.; Self-Sullivan, C.; Shenkar, N.; Siegel, V.; Sterrer, W.; Stöhr, S.; Swalla, B.; Tasker, M.L.; Thuesen, E.V.; Timm, T.; Todaro, M.A.; Turon, X.; Tyler, S.; Uetz, P.; van der Land, J.; Vanhoorne, B.; van Ofwegen, L.P.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Vanaverbeke, J.; Walker-Smith, G.K.; Walter, T.C.; Warren, A.; Williams, G.C.; Wilson, S.P.; Costello, M.J. (2012). The magnitude of global marine species diversity. Curr. Biol. 22(23): 2189-2202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036, more Read, G.B.; Inglis, G.; Stratford, P.; Ahyong, S.T. (2011). Arrival of the alien fanworm Sabella spallanzanii (Gmelin, 1791) (Polychaeta: Sabellidae) in two New Zealand harbours. Aquat. Invasions 6(3): 273-279. https://dx.doi.org/10.3391/ai.2011.6.3.04, more Gordon, D.P.; Beaumont, J.; MacDiarmid, A.B.; Robertson, D.A.; Ahyong, S.T. (2010). Marine biodiversity of Aotearoa New Zealand. PLoS One 5(8): e10905. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0010905, more 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 Bull. Zool. Supplement no.21: 1-109, more Baba, K.; Macpherson, E.; Poore, G.C.B.; Ahyong, S.T.; Bermudez, A.; Cabezas, P.; Lin, C.-W.; Nizinski, M.; Rodrigues, C.; Schnabel, K.E. (2008). Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura - families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae). Zootaxa, 1905(1). Magnolia Press: Auckland. ISBN 978-1-86977-289-5; e-ISBN 978-1-86977-290-1. 220 pp. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1905.1.1, more Ahyong, S.T. (2001). Revision of the Australian stomatopod Crustacea. Rec. Aust. Mus. (Suppl. 26): 1-326, more Ahyong, S.T.; Chan, T.-Y.; Liao, Y.J. (2000). Oratosquillina manningi, a new species of stomopod from Taiwan and Australia. J. Crust. Biol. 20 Special No.2: 42-47, more
Peer reviewed publications (8) [show]
Halsband, C.; Ahyong, S.T.; Brandt, A.; Kosobokova, K.N.; Ward, P.; Goodall-Copestake, W.P.; MacPherson, E. (2020). Biogeography of the Oceans , in: Thiel, M. et al. Evolution and Biogeography of the Crustacea. The Natural History of the Crustacea series, 8: pp. 121-154, more Ahyong, S.T. (2013). Stomatopoda collected primarily by the Philippine AURORA expedition (Crustacea, Squilloidea), in: Ahyong, S.T. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 204: pp. 85-106, more Ahyong, S.T.; Chan, T.-Y.; Corbari, L.; Ng, P.K.L. (Ed.) (2013). Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 204. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum: Paris. ISBN 978-2-85653-692-6. 501 pp., more Chan, T.-Y.; Ng, P.K.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Corbari, L. (2013). Foreword - Préface, in: Ahyong, S.T. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 204: pp. 9-12, more Richer de Forges, B.; Chan, T.-Y.; Corbari, L.; Lemaitre, R.; MacPherson, E.; Ahyong, S.T.; Ng, P.K.L. (2013). The MUSORSTOM-TDSB deep-sea benthos exploration programme (1976-2012): An overview of crustacean discoveries and new perspectives on deep-sea zoology and biogeography, in: Ahyong, S.T. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 204: pp. 13-66, more Ahyong, S.T. (2012). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Mantis shrimps (Crustacea: Stomatopoda). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir, 125. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA): Wellington. ISBN 978-0-478-23297-4; e-ISBN 978-0-478-23298-1. 111 pp., more 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. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA): Wellington. ISBN 978-0-478-23286-8. 196 pp., more Ahyong, S.T. (2003). Gnathophyllum taylori, a new species of caridean shrimp from south-eastern Australia (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gnathophyllidae). Mem. Mus. Vic. 60(2): 237-242, more
Books (3) [show]
Poore, G.C.B.; Ahyong, S.T.; Taylor, J. (Ed.) (2011). The biology of squat lobsters. Crustacean Issues, 20. CSIRO Publishing: Baton Roca. ISBN 978-1-4398-6614-6. 363 pp., more Chan, T.Y.; Ng, P.K.L.; Ahyong, S.T.; Tan, S.H. (Ed.) (2009). Crustacean fauna of Taiwan: brachyuran crabs. I. Carcinology in Taiwan and Dromiacea, Raninoida, Cyclodorippoida. National Taiwan Ocean University: Keelung. ISBN 978-986-01-7507-3. 198 pp., more Ahyong, S.T.; Chan, T.-Y.; Liao, Y.-C. (2008). A catalog of the mantis shrimps (Stomatopoda) of Taiwan. National Taiwan Ocean University: Keelung. ISBN 978-986-01-5060-5. 190 pp., more
Book chapters (4) [show]
Ahyong, S.T.; Wilkens, S.L. (2011). Aliens in the Antipodes: Non-indigenous marine crustaceans of New Zealand and Australia, in: Galil, B.S. et al. (Ed.) In the wrong place - alien marine crustaceans: Distribution, biology and impacts. Invading Nature - Springer Series in Invasion Ecology, 6: pp. 451-485, more Ahyong, S.T. (2009). The polychelidan lobsters: phylogeny and systematics (Polychelida: Polychelidae), in: Martin, J.W. et al. (Ed.) Decapod crustacean phylogenetics. Crustacean Issues, 18: pp. 369-396, more Ahyong, S.T.; Schnabel, K.E.; Maas, E.W. (2009). Anomuran phylogeny: New insights from molecular data, in: Martin, J.W. et al. (Ed.) Decapod crustacean phylogenetics. Crustacean Issues, 18: pp. 399-414, more Tshudy, D.; Robles, R.; Chan, T.-Y.; Ho, K.C.; Chu, K.H.; Ahyong, S.T.; Felder, D.L. (2009). Phylogeny of marine clawed lobster families Nephropidae Dana, 1852, and Thaumastochelidae Bate, 1888, based on mitochondrial genes, in: Martin, J.W. et al. (Ed.) Decapod crustacean phylogenetics. Crustacean Issues, 18: pp. 357-368, more

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