Shane T. Ahyong

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
242 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

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Shane T. Ahyong is a scholar working on Ecology, Oceanography and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Shane T. Ahyong has authored 242 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 199 papers in Ecology, 157 papers in Oceanography and 86 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Shane T. Ahyong's work include Crustacean biology and ecology (179 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (154 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (69 papers). Shane T. Ahyong is often cited by papers focused on Crustacean biology and ecology (179 papers), Marine Biology and Ecology Research (154 papers) and Marine and fisheries research (69 papers). Shane T. Ahyong collaborates with scholars based in Australia, New Zealand and United States. Shane T. Ahyong's co-authors include Tin‐Yam Chan, Peter K. L. Ng, Gary C. B. Poore, Ling Ming Tsang, Ka Hou Chu, Kareen E. Schnabel, Enrique Macpherson, Pat Hutchings, Joelle C. Y. Lai and Keith A. Crandall and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Shane T. Ahyong

230 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

A Classification of Living and Fossil Genera of Decapod Crustaceans

2009 560 citations Sammy De Grave, N. Dean Pentcheff et al. The Raffles bulletin of zoology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shane T. Ahyong Australia	34	4.0k	2.0k	1.4k	1.1k	751	242	4.8k
Tin‐Yam Chan Taiwan	30	3.6k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	942 0.8×	865 1.2×	285	4.4k
Darryl L. Felder United States	39	4.3k 1.1×	1.6k 0.8×	1.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.2×	1.3k 1.8×	173	5.0k
Geoffrey A. Boxshall United Kingdom	36	4.0k 1.0×	2.3k 1.2×	1.0k 0.7×	641 0.6×	507 0.7×	296	5.4k
Carlos Eduardo Leite Ferreira Brazil	38	3.8k 1.0×	1.2k 0.6×	3.0k 2.1×	1.7k 1.5×	511 0.7×	150	5.0k
Carrie E. Schweitzer United States	34	3.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	1.8k 1.6×	551 0.7×	225	4.9k
Geraint A. Tarling United Kingdom	42	2.8k 0.7×	2.7k 1.4×	3.0k 2.1×	1.0k 0.9×	365 0.5×	158	5.6k
Sammy De Grave United Kingdom	26	2.7k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	969 0.7×	888 0.8×	787 1.0×	168	3.2k
Michael E. Hellberg United States	38	3.4k 0.9×	2.0k 1.0×	2.0k 1.4×	1.3k 1.1×	308 0.4×	65	5.2k
Lawrence G. Abele United States	39	3.2k 0.8×	1.4k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.1×	602 0.8×	88	4.2k
Adam Petrusek Czechia	39	3.8k 0.9×	737 0.4×	577 0.4×	831 0.7×	389 0.5×	176	4.9k

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Ahyong, Shane T., et al.. (2025). Phylogeography of the Anaspides richardsoni species clade (Anaspidacea, Anaspidesidae): glaciation and recolonization of the Tasmanian Central Plateau and the question of paraphyletic species. Cladistics. 41(5). 470–492.

Richter, Stefan, et al.. (2023). A new species of Tasmanian mountain shrimp, Anaspides driesseni sp. nov. (Malacostraca, Anaspidacea, Anaspidesidae). Records of the Australian Museum. 75(1). 25–43. 2 indexed citations

Ahyong, Shane T., et al.. (2023). Shift in Symbiotic Lifestyle as the Major Process Shaping the Evolution of Pea Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheroidea). SSRN Electronic Journal. 1 indexed citations

Ahrens, Dirk, Shane T. Ahyong, Alberto Ballerio, et al.. (2021). Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses?—A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021). Zootaxa. 5027(2). 151–159. 40 indexed citations

Ahrens, Dirk, Shane T. Ahyong, Alberto Ballerio, et al.. (2021). Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses? - A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021). Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 2 indexed citations

Mesaglio, Thomas, et al.. (2021). The ecology of Lepas-based biofouling communities on moored and drifting objects, with applications for marine forensic science. Marine Biology. 168(2). 16 indexed citations

Aguilar, Robert, Sanjeevi Prakash, Matthew B. Ogburn, et al.. (2021). Unresolved taxonomy confounds invasive species identification: theLysmata vittataStimpson, 1860 (Decapoda: Caridea: Lysmatidae) species complex and recent introduction ofLysmata vittatasensu stricto in the western Atlantic. Journal of Crustacean Biology. 42(1). 5 indexed citations

Ahyong, Shane T., et al.. (2020). Arthropoda; Crustacea; Decapoda of deep-sea volcanic habitats of the Galapagos Marine Reserve, Tropical Eastern Pacific. ZooKeys. 8. e54482–e54482. 6 indexed citations

Ahyong, Shane T., et al.. (2020). Impacts of the 2019–2020 bushfires on New South Wales biodiversity: a rapid assessment of distribution data for selected invertebrate taxa. 32. 1–17. 16 indexed citations

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Ahyong, Shane T., et al.. (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. 2 indexed citations

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Ahyong, Shane T., Martin Schwentner, & Stefan Richter. (2017). The Tasmanian Lake Shrimps, Paranaspides Smith, 1908 (Crustacea, Syncarida, Anaspidesidae). Records of the Australian Museum. 69(4). 259–275. 2 indexed citations

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Richter, Stefan, Martin Schwentner, Christian S. Wirkner, & Shane T. Ahyong. (2017). Phylogeny and species diversity of Tasmanian mountain shrimps and their relatives (Crustacea, Anaspidesidae). Zoologica Scripta. 47(1). 84–105. 6 indexed citations

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Duffy, Clinton & Shane T. Ahyong. (2015). Annotated checklist of the marine flora and fauna of the Kermadec Islands Marine Reserve and northern Kermadec Ridge, New Zealand. 20. 10 indexed citations

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Ahyong, Shane T. & Christopher Nicolai Roterman. (2014). Pristinaspinidae, a new family of cretaceous kiwaiform stem-lineage squat lobster (Anomura, Chirostyloidea). Scripta geologica. 147. 125–133. 5 indexed citations

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Ahyong, Shane T.. (2013). Stomatopoda collected primarily by the Philippine AURORA expedition (Crustacea, Squilloidea). 204. 85–106. 1 indexed citations

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Ahyong, Shane T.. (2011). New Zealand Coastal Marine Invertebrates, Volume 1, by StevedeC. Cook (gen. ed.). Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, 2010. 640 p. Numerous line drawings, half‐tones and colour figures, hardcover. ISBN 978‐1877257‐60‐5. Price NZ$150.. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 45(1). 161–163. 19 indexed citations

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Grave, Sammy De, N. Dean Pentcheff, Shane T. Ahyong, et al.. (2009). A Classification of Living and Fossil Genera of Decapod Crustaceans. The Raffles bulletin of zoology. 1. 560 indexed citations breakdown →

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Ahyong, Shane T. & Denis O’Meally. (2004). Phylogeny of the Decapoda reptantia: Resolution using three molecular loci and morphology. USC Research Bank (University of the Sunshine Coast). 94 indexed citations

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Ahyong, Shane T. & Mark V. Erdmann. (2003). The stomatopod Crustacea of Guam. 3 indexed citations

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Ebach, Malte C. & Shane T. Ahyong. (2001). Phylogeny of the Trilobite SubgenusAcanthopyge (Lobopyge). Cladistics. 17(1). 1–10. 22 indexed citations

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