Shane Timothy Ahyong is an Australian zoologist specialising in marine invertebrates. [1] Since 2010 he has worked as a senior principal research scientist at the Australian Museum. [1] Following his Ph.D. he worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Australian Museum and in 2006 left to manage Marine Biodiversity and Biosecurity Group and Marine Invasives Taxonomic Service within the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research in New Zealand. [1]
He earned his B.Sc. (Hon) and Ph.D. (in 2000, with the thesis, The phylogeny of the Stomatopoda with a revision of the Australian fauna) [2] from the University of New South Wales. [1]
He is an editor of the World Register of Marine Species, [3] and since 2017 has served as a commissioner for the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. [4] He is a past president of The Crustacean Society. [4]
His zoological author abbreviation is Ahyong. [5] He has authored over 200 taxa.[ citation needed ]
Anaspides is a genus of freshwater crustaceans in the family Anaspidesidae. The genus was first described in 1894 by George Malcolm Thomson. The genus was originally placed in the family, Anaspididae by Thomson, but this genus name was preoccupied by the insect genus, Anaspis Geoffroy, 1762, and therefore, in 2017, the family was renamed Anaspidesidae by Shane Ahyong and Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga.
Eurysquillidae is a family of mantis shrimp. Formerly placed in the superfamily Gonodactyloidea, it has since been recognised that eurysquillids are closer to families in the Squilloidea, and so Eurysquillidae has been placed in its own superfamily, Eurysquilloidea. The family was first described in 1977 by Raymond Manning.
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Acanthosquilla is a genus of stomatopod crustacean. The American carcinologist Raymond B. Manning named and first circumscribed the genus in 1963. As of 2018, the World Register of Marine Species recognizes the following eight species:
Acanthosquilla derijardi is a species of stomatopod crustacean. Its distribution is widespread throughout the Indo-West Pacific. The species was initially described by the American carcinologist Raymond B. Manning in 1970. Its junior synonym, A. sirindhorn, was named in 1995 in honor of Princess Sirindhorn of Thailand.
Miyakella is a genus of shrimps belonging to the family Squillidae. It is a replacement name for Miyakea Manning, 1995 which was pre-occupied.
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Pariliacantha is a genus of mantis shrimp containing a single species, Pariliacantha georgeorum. The genus and species were first described by Shane T. Ahyong in 2012.
Lithodes aoteoroa is a New Zealand species of king crab in the family, Lithodidae, and was first described in 2010 by Shane T. Ahyong. It had formerly been confused with L. longispina and L. murrayi, but neither of those species are found in New Zealand.
Erugosquilla septemdentata is a species of shrimp in the family, Squillidae, and was first described in 1994 by Shane T. Ahyong as Oratosquilla septemdentata. The name was revised to Erugosquilla septemdentata in 1995 by Raymond B. Manning.
Acanthosquilla crosnieri is a species of stomatopod crustacean in the Nannosquillidae family. It has been found in waters off the Marquesas, at depths of 0 - 100 m but more usually at 7 - 25 m, and was first described by the Australian carcinologist Shane T. Ahyong in 2002.
Alima neptuni is a species of shrimp in the Squillidae family, and was first described in 1768 by Carl Linnaeus as Cancer neptuni.
Alima pacifica is a species of shrimp in the Squillidae family, and was first described in 2001 by Shane Ahyong.
Alima maxima is a species of shrimp in the Squillidae family, and was first described in 2002 by Shane Ahyong.
Acanthosquilla melissae is a species of stomatopod crustacean in the Nannosquillidae family, and was first described by the Australian carcinologist Shane T. Ahyong in 2007.
Anaspides driesseni is a species of freshwater crustacean in the family Anaspidesidae, and was first described in 2023 by Christoph Höpel, Stefan Richter & Shane Ahyong. In 2016 Ahyong discussed three morphologically different forms of A. swaini occurring in three different drainage systems.