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Shane T. Ahyong

Shane T. Ahyong

D-Index & Metrics

Animal Science and Veterinary

D-Index
43
Citations
11190
World Ranking
907
National Ranking
55

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
11294
World Ranking
4972
National Ranking
399

Shane T. Ahyong publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shane T. Ahyong sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 329 publications — 92nd percentile

92% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Shane T. Ahyong D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Shane T. Ahyong sits on this spectrum.

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20 D-Index 77+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 71st percentile

71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Shane T. Ahyong is affiliated with the Australian Museum in Australia. Their research primarily focuses on Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing extensively to the understanding of ecology and marine biology.

The scientist's main fields of study include:

  • Environmental Science
  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

Within these fields, they have specialized subfields such as:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecological Modeling

The core topics of Shane T. Ahyong's work revolve around marine life and ecology, including:

  • Crustacean biology and ecology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
  • Species Distribution and Climate Change
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies

The scientist has published numerous papers, with recent examples highlighting their contributions to biodiversity and marine ecology:

  • The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time-bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019-2020 Australian megafires (2022), Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Rapid assessment of the biodiversity impacts of the 2019-2020 Australian megafires to guide urgent management intervention and recovery and lessons for other regions (2021), Diversity and Distributions
  • Is it time to describe new species without diagnoses?-A comment on Sharkey et al. (2021) (2021), Zootaxa
  • Renaming taxa on ethical grounds threatens nomenclatural stability and scientific communication (2023), Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • Benchmarking global biodiversity of decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda) (2023), Journal of Crustacean Biology

Shane T. Ahyong frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including:

  • Peter K. L. Ng
  • Ling Ming Tsang
  • Chao Huang
  • Frank-Thorsten Krell
  • Christopher B. Boyko

The scientist's work is frequently published in the following venues:

  • Zootaxa
  • Records of the Australian Museum
  • Journal of Crustacean Biology
  • Crustaceana
  • Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Shane T. Ahyong has also contributed to book publications, including the title Marine Decapod Crustacea published by CSIRO Publishing in 2023.

Best Publications

  • The magnitude of global marine species diversity

    Ward Appeltans;Shane T. Ahyong;Shane T. Ahyong;Gary Anderson;Martin V. Angel

  • A Classification of Living and Fossil Genera of Decapod Crustaceans

    Sammy De Grave;N. Dean Pentcheff;Shane T. Ahyong;Tin-Yam Chan

  • Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

    Zhi-Qiang Zhang;John Na Hooper;Rob Wm Van Soest;Andrzej Pisera

  • Beyond corals and fish: the effects of climate change on noncoral benthic invertebrates of tropical reefs

    Rachel Przeslawski;Shane Ahyong;Maria Byrne;Gert WÖRheide

  • Evolutionary History of True Crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) and the Origin of Freshwater Crabs

    Ling Ming Tsang;Christoph D. Schubart;Shane T. Ahyong;Shane T. Ahyong;Joelle C.Y. Lai

  • Phylogeny of Decapoda using two nuclear protein-coding genes: origin and evolution of the Reptantia.

    L.M. Tsang;K.Y. Ma;S.T. Ahyong;T.-Y. Chan

  • Taxonomy based on science is necessary for global conservation

    Scott A. Thomson;Richard L. Pyle;Shane T Ahyong;Shane T Ahyong;Miguel A. Alonso-Zarazaga

  • Subphylum Crustacea Brünnich, 1772. In : Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

    Shane T. Ahyong;James K. Lowry;Miguel Alonso;Roger N. Bamber

  • A new classification of the Galatheoidea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura)

    Shane T. Ahyong;Keiji Baba;Enrique Macpherson;Gary C. B. Poore

  • Morphological phylogeny of alpheid shrimps : Parallel preadaptation and the origin of a key morphological innovation, the snapping claw

    Arthur Anker;Shane T. Ahyong;Pierre Y. Noël;A. Richard Palmer

  • Revision of the Australian Stomatopod Crustacea

    Shane T. Ahyong

  • A new hypothesis of decapod phylogeny

    Christopher J. Dixon;Shane T. Ahyong;Frederick R. Schram

  • A comprehensive and integrative reconstruction of evolutionary history for Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda).

    Heather D Bracken-Grissom;Maren E Cannon;Patricia Cabezas;Patricia Cabezas;Rodney M Feldmann

  • Catalogue of squat lobsters of the world (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura—families Chirostylidae, Galatheidae and Kiwaidae)

    Keiji Baba;Enrique Macpherson;Gary C. B. Poore;Shane T. Ahyong

  • Phylogenetics of the brachyuran crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda): The status of Podotremata based on small subunit nuclear ribosomal RNA

    Shane T. Ahyong;Joelle C.Y. Lai;Deirdre Sharkey;Donald J. Colgan

  • The emergence of lobsters: phylogenetic relationships, morphological evolution and divergence time comparisons of an ancient group (decapoda: achelata, astacidea, glypheidea, polychelida).

    Heather D. Bracken-Grissom;Shane T. Ahyong;Richard D. Wilkinson;Rodney M. Feldmann

  • Mitochondrial DNA and Decapod Phylogenies: The Importance of 47 Pseudogenes and Primer Optimization

    Joel W. Martin;Keith A. Crandall;Darryl L. Felder

  • Marine biodiversity of Aotearoa New Zealand.

    Dennis P. Gordon;Jennifer Beaumont;Alison MacDiarmid;Donald A. Robertson

  • Hermit to King, or Hermit to All: Multiple Transitions to Crab-like Forms from Hermit Crab Ancestors

    Ling Ming Tsang;Tin-Yam Chan;Shane T. Ahyong;Ka Hou Chu

  • The conservation impacts of ecological disturbance: Time‐bound estimates of population loss and recovery for fauna affected by the 2019–2020 Australian megafires

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  • Feral populations of the Australian Red-Claw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus von Martens) in water supply catchments of Singapore

    Shane T. Ahyong;Darren C. J. Yeo

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter K. L. Ng
Peter K. L. Ng National University of Singapore
Tin-Yam Chan
Tin-Yam Chan National Taiwan Ocean University
Gary C. B. Poore
Gary C. B. Poore Museums Victoria
Keith A. Crandall
Keith A. Crandall George Washington University
Enrique Macpherson
Enrique Macpherson Spanish National Research Council
Christopher B. Boyko
Christopher B. Boyko American Museum of Natural History
D. Christopher Rogers
D. Christopher Rogers Northeastern State University
Hsi-Te Shih
Hsi-Te Shih National Chung Hsing University
Rafael Lemaitre
Rafael Lemaitre National Museum of Natural History
Sammy De Grave
Sammy De Grave University of Oxford

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