Curriculum Vitae Invertebrate Lab

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Selected Publications

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  1. Thurman, C. L., Shih, H.-T.* & McNamara, J. C. 2023. Minuca panema (Coelho, 1972): Resurrection of a fiddler crab species from Brazil closely related to Minuca burgersi (Holthuis, 1967) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae). Zoological Studies 62: 45.
  2. Shih, H.-T.*, Naruse, T. & Schubart, C. D. 2023. Molecular evidence and differences in gonopod morphology lead to the recognition of a new species of the freshwater crab genus Candidiopotamon Bott, 1967 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamidae) from eastern Taiwan. ZooKeys 1179: 169-196.
  3. Shih, H.-T.*, Hsu, J.-W., Chang, K. & Chen, M.-W. 2023. Taxonomy and phylogeography of the freshwater crab Geothelphusa tawu species complex (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae) from southern Taiwan and offshore islets. Zoological Studies 62: 37.
  4. Shih, H.-T.*, Hsu, J.-W. & Li, J.-J. 2023. Multigene phylogenies of the estuarine sesarmid Parasesarma bidens species complex (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae), with description of three new species. Zoological Studies 62: 34.
  5. Ng, P. K. L. & Shih, H.-T.*, 2023. Tuerkayana latens, a new species of land crab from French Polynesia, with a discussion on the phylogeny of the genus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae). Zoological Studies 62: 10.
  6. Shih, H.-T. & Chan, B. K. K.* 2022. Systematics and biogeography of fiddler crabs ¡V A special issue in Zoological Studies. Zoological Studies 61: 64.
  7. Shih, H.-T.*, Prema, M., Kumar, A. J., Saher, N. U., Ravichandran, S., Odhano, S. & Paulay, G. 2022. Diversity and distribution of fiddler crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) around the Arabian Sea. Zoological Studies 61: 65.
  8. Shih, H.-T., Wong, K. J. H., Chan, B. K. K.*, Nguyen, T. S., Do, V. T., Ngo, X. Q. & Hsu, P.-Y. 2022. Diversity and distribution of fiddler crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) in Vietnam. Zoological Studies 61: 66.
  9. Shih, H.-T., Liu, M.-Y.*, Aoki, M. & Suzuki, H. 2022. Phylogeography of the fiddler crab Tubuca arcuata (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) in East Asia and northern Vietnam. Zoological Studies 61: 68. doi:10.6620/ZS.2022.61-68.
  10. Liu, M.-Y. & Shih, H.-T.* 2022. The complete mitogenome of Xeruca formosensis (Rathbun, 1921) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae), a fiddler crab endemic to Taiwan, with its phylogenetic position in the family. Zoological Studies 61: 69.
  11. Zhang, Y.-C. & Shih, H.-T.* 2022. First zoeal stage of 15 species of fiddler crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 61: 71.
  12. Prema, M., Hsu, J.-W., Shih, H.-T.* & Ravichandran, S.* 2022. First record of the genus Pseudohelice Sakai, Türkay & Yang, 2006 from India and description of a new pseudocryptic species (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae). Zoological Studies 61: 56. doi:10.6620/ZS.2022.61-56.
  13. Hsu, J.-W., Shih, H.-T.* & Innocenti, G. 2022. A review of the mud crab genus Pseudohelice Sakai, Türkay & Yang, 2006 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae), with redescription of Cyclograpsus latreillii H. Milne Edwards, 1837, from the western Indian Ocean. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 70: 94-107.
  14. Hsu, J.-W., Shih, H.-T.* & Li, J.-J. 2022. Description of a new species of brackish-water crab of the genus Ptychognathus Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from southern Taiwan. Nauplius 30: e2022002.
  15. Shy, J.-Y., Shih, H.-T.* & Mao, J.-J. 2021. Geothelphusa boreas, a new montane freshwater crab (Crustacea: Potamidae: Geothelphusa) from northeastern Taiwan, and the identity of G. hirsuta Tan & Liu, 1998. Zootaxa 5061: 93-104.
  16. Huang, Y.-H. & Shih, H.-T.* 2021. Diversity in the Taiwanese swimming crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) estimated through DNA barcodes, with descriptions of 14 new records. Zoological Studies 60: 60.
  17. Huang, C.*, Mao, S.-Y. & Shih, H.-T.* 2021. Two new freshwater crab species of the genus Nanhaipotamon Bott, 1968 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Potamidae) from Huizhou, Guangdong Province, southern China. Zootaxa 5026(2): 221-238.
  18. Thurman, C. L, Alber, R. E., Hopkins, M. J. & Shih, H.-T.* 2021. Morphological and genetic variation among populations of the fiddler crab Minuca burgersi (Holthuis, 1967) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from shores of the Caribbean Basin and western South Atlantic Ocean. Zoological Studies 60: 19.
  19. Shih, H.-T.*, Low, M. E. Y. & Ng, P. K. L. 2021. The nomenclature, identity and synonyms of Cancer vocans minor Herbst, 1782 and Gelasimus caerulens Adams, 1847 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae). Crustaceana 94(2): 207-225.
  20. 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: 1-15.
  21. Huang, C.*, Shih, H.-T. & Ahyong, S. T. 2020. The freshwater crab genus Lacunipotamon Dai, Song, He, Cao, Xu & Zhong, 1975 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae), with descriptions of two new species from southwestern China. Crustaceana 93(11-12): 1361-1379.
  22. Hsu, J.-W. & Shih, H.-T.* 2020. Diversity of Taiwanese brackish crabs genus Ptychognathus Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) based on DNA barcodes, with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Studies 59: 59.
  23. Ng, P. K. L., Li, J.-J. & Shih, H.-T.* 2020, What is Sesarmops impressus (H. Milne Edwards, 1837) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae)? Zoological Studies 59: 27.
  24. Huang, C., Wang, J. & Shih, H.-T.* 2020. A new genus and two new species of freshwater crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) with unusual coiled tip of male second gonopods from Yunnan, southwestern China. Zoological Studies 59: 24.
  25. Shih, H.-T. & Poupin, J. 2020. A new fiddler crab of Austruca Bott, 1973, closely related to A. perplexa (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae), from the South Pacific islands. Zoological Studies 59: 26.
  26. Ng, P. K. L., Mar, W. & Shih, H.-T.* 2020. Indawmon thanayei, a new genus and new species of freshwater crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Indawgyi Lake, Kachin State, Myanmar. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 68: 529-538.
  27. Li, J.-J., Shih, H.-T.* & Ng, P. K. L. 2020. The Taiwanese and Philippine species of the terrestrial crabs Bresedium Serène and Soh, 1970 and Sesarmops Serène and Soh, 1970 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura), with descriptions of two new species. Zoological Studies 59: 16.
  28. Shih, H.-T., Hsu, J.-W., Li, J.-J., Ng, N. K. & Lee, J.-H. 2020. The identities of three species of Parahelice Sakai, Türkay & Yang, 2006 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the western Pacific, based on morphological and molecular evidence. Zootaxa 4728(2): 249-265.
  29. Ng, P. K. L., Shih, H.-T.* & Cannicci, S. 2019. A new genus for Sesarma (Holometopus) tangi Rathbun, 1931 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from mangrove forests, with notes on its ecology and conservation. Journal of Crustacean Biology 40(1): 89-96. (printed in 2020)
  30. Li, J.-J., Shih, H.-T.* & Ng, P. K. L. 2019. Three new species and two new records of Parasesarma De Man, 1895 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from Taiwan and the Philippines from morphological and molecular evidence. Zoological Studies 58: 40.
  31. Li, J.-J., Hsu, J.-W., Ng, N. K. & Shih, H.-T.* 2019. Eight new records of crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae, Varunidae) from the coasts of Taiwan. Crustaceana 92(10): 1207-1230.
  32. Shih, H.-T., Hsu, J.-W., Wong, K. J. H. & Ng, N. K. 2019. Review of the mudflat varunid crab genus Metaplax (Crustacea, Brachyura, Varunidae) from East Asia and northern Vietnam. ZooKeys 877: 1-29.
  33. Shih, H.-T., Hsu, P.-Y., Shahdadi, A., Schubart, C. D. & Li, J.-J. 2019. The synonymy of the supratidal crab species Parasesarma cognatum Rahayu & Li, 2013 with P. liho Koller, Liu & Schubart, 2010 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence, with a note on P. paucitorum Rahayu & Ng, 2009. Zoological Studies 58: 21.
  34. Shih, H.-T., Ng, P. K. L., Ravichandran, S. & Prema, M. 2019. Resurrection of Gelasimus variegatus Heller, 1862, a fiddler crab closely related to Austruca bengali (Crane, 1975) and A. triangularis (A. Milne-Edwards, 1873) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae), from the Bay of Bengal, Indian Ocean. Zoological Studies 58: 12.
  35. Shih, H.-T., Cai, Y. & Chiu, Y.-W. 2019. Neocaridina fonticulata, a new land-locked freshwater shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) from Hengchun Peninsula, Taiwan. ZooKeys 817: 11-23.
  36. Hsu, P.-Y. & Shih, H.-T.* 2018. A new record crab of Parasesarma lepidum (Decapoda: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from southern Taiwan. Collection and Research 31: 85-90.
  37. Thurman, C. L. , Hopkins, M. J., Brase, A. L. & Shih, H.-T.*. 2018. The unusual case of the widely distributed fiddler crab Minuca rapax (Smith, 1870) from the western Atlantic: an exemplary polytypic species. Invertebrate Systematics 32(6): 1465-1490.
  38. Chen, S.-L. & Shih, H.-T.* 2018. A review of the harvestman genus Metadentobunus (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Gagrellinae) with a description of a new species from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 57: 57.
  39. Huang, C., Shih, H.-T. & Ahyong, S. T. 2018. Two new genera and two new species of narrow-range freshwater crabs from Guangdong, China (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 38(5): 614-624.
  40. Ng, N. K., Naruse, T. & Shih, H.-T.* 2018. Helice epicure, a new species of varunid mud crab (Brachyura, Decapoda, Grapsoidea) from the Ryukyus, Japan. Zoological Studies 57: 15.
  41. Shih, H.-T., Chan, B. K. K. & Ng, P. K. L. 2018. Tubuca alcocki, a new pseudocryptic species of fiddler crab from the Indian Ocean, sister to the southeastern African T. urvillei (H. Milne Edwards, 1852) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae). ZooKeys 747: 41-62.
  42. Naruse, T., Shih, H.-T.*, Fujita, Y., Mendoza, J. C. E. & Ng, P. K. L. 2018. Size-associated morphological changes in Epigrapsus notatus (Heller, 1865) and the taxonomic status of E. villosus Ng, 2003 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 66: 208-216.
  43. Tsang, L. M., Ahyong, S. T., Shih, H.-T. & Ng, P. K. L. 2018. Further polyphyly of pinnotheroid crabs: the molecular phylogenetic position of the polychaete-associated Aphanodactylidae. Invertebrate Systematics 32: 92-99.
  44. Huang, C., Ahyong, S. & Shih, H.-T.* 2017. Cantopotamon: a new genus of freshwater crabs from Guangdong, China, with descriptions of four new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae). Zoological Studies 56: 41.
  45. Ng, P. K. L., Shih, H.-T.*, Ho, P.-H. & Wang, C.-H., 2017. An updated annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). Journal of the National Taiwan Museum 70(3/4): 1-208.
  46. Shih, H.-T.*, Cai, Y., Niwa, N. & Nakahara, Y. 2017. A new species of land-locked freshwater shrimp of the genus Neocaridina (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) from Iki Island, Kyushu, Japan. Zoological Studies 56: 30.
  47. Wang, Y.-H. & Shih, H.-T.* 2017. Four new species of earthworms (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae: Amynthas) from Taiwan based on morphological and molecular evidence. Zoological Studies 56: 18.
  48. Lai, C. Y. J., Shih, H.-T.* & Ng, P. K. L. 2017. The systematics of land crabs of the genus Gecarcoidea H. Milne Edwards, 1837, and recognition of a pseudocryptic species, G. humei (Wood-Mason, 1874) from the eastern Indian Ocean (Crustacea: Decapoda: Gecarcinidae). Invertebrate Systematics 31(4): 406-426.
  49. Chen, S.-L. & Shih, H.-T.* 2017. Descriptions of three new species of the harvestmen genus Pseudogagrella (Opiliones: Sclerosomatidae: Gagrellinae) from Taiwan, supported by morphological and molecular evidence. Zootaxa 4268(1): 34-52.
  50. Huang, C., Shih, H.-T.* & Ng, P. K. L. 2017. A new genus and new species of Potamidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamoidea), the first stygomorphic cave crab known from China and East Asia. Zootaxa 4232(1): 71-84, 4250(6): 600. [Erratum]
  51. Wang, Y., Zeng, Q.-W., Zou, J.-X., Zhu, C.-C., Bai, J., Shih, H.-T., Cheng, S.-L. & Zhou, X.-M., 2016. The complete mitochondrial genome of freshwater crab Sinopotamon xiushuiense (Decapoda: brachyura: Potamoidea). Mitochondrial DNA, Part B 1(1): 750-752.
  52. Ng, P. K. L., Rahayu, D. L. & Shih, H.-T.*, 2016. Ankerius aenigmaticus, a new genus and new species of aphanodactylid crab symbiotic with polychaetes from the Red Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Zootaxa 4179(2): 271-278.
  53. Huang, C, Shih, H.-T.*. & Mao, S. Y., 2016. Yuebeipotamon calciatile, a new genus and new species of freshwater crab from southern China (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae). ZooKeys 615: 61-72.
  54. Do, V. T., Shih, H.-T.* & Huang, C., 2016. A new species of freshwater crab of the genus Tiwaripotamon Bott, 1970 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamidae) from northern Vietnam and southern China. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64: 213-219.
  55. Shih, H.-T., Ng, P. K. L., Davie, P. J. F., Schubart, C. D., Türkay, M., Naderloo, R., Jones, D. & Liu, M.-Y. 2016. Systematics of the family Ocypodidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Crustacea: Brachyura), based on phylogenetic relationships, with a reorganization of subfamily rankings and a review of the taxonomic status of Uca Leach, 1814, sensu lato and its subgenera. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 64: 139-175.
  56. Teng, S.-J., Shih, H.-T.*, Naderloo, R. & Corbari, L. 2016. A review of the Chaenostoma boscii species-complex (Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae) from the Indo-West Pacific. Crustacean Research 45: 15-27.
  57. Shih, H.-T., Huang, C. & Ng, P. K. L. 2016. A re-appraisal of the widely-distributed freshwater crab genus Sinopotamon Bott, 1967, from China, with establishment of a new genus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Potamidae). Zootaxa 4138(2): 309-331.
  58. Rahayu, D. L., Shih, H.-T.* & Ng, P. K. L., 2016. A new species of land hermit crab in the genus Coenobita Latreille, 1829 from Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, previously confused with C. cavipes Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Coenobitidae). Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 34: 470-488.
  59. Naderloo, R., Schubart, C. D. & Shih, H.-T., 2016. Genetic and morphological separation of Uca occidentalis, a new East African fiddler crab species, from Uca annulipes (H. Milne Edward, 1837) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Zoologischer Anzeiger 262: 10-19.
  60. Shih, H.-T., Lee, J.-H., Ho, P.-H., Liu, H.-C., Wang, C.-H., Suzuki, H. & Teng, S.-J., 2016. Species diversity of fiddler crabs, genus Uca Leach, 1814 (Crustacea: Ocypodidae), from Taiwan and adjacent islands, with notes on the Japanese species. Zootaxa 4083(1): 57-82.
  61. Shih, H.-T., Chan, B. K. K., Teng, S.-J. & Wong, K. J. H., 2015. Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan: Brachyuran Crabs, Volume II ¡X Ocypodoidea. National Chung Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan. 320 pp.
  62. Chu, K. H., Schubart, C. D., Shih, H.-T. & Tsang, L. M., 2015. Genetic diversity and evolution of Brachyura. In: Castro, P., Davie, P. J. F., Guinot, D., Schram, F. R. and von Vaupel Klein, J. C. (eds.), Treatise on Zoology¡XAnatomy, Taxonomy, Biology¡VThe Crustacea, complementary to the volumes translated from the French of the Traité de Zoologie 9(C)(I), Decapoda: Brachyura (Part 1): 775-820. Brill, Leiden.
  63. Teng, S.-J. & Shih, H.-T.*, 2015. A new species of Macrophthalmus Desmarest, 1823 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Macrophthalmidae) from Taiwan, with notes on four new records. Zootaxa 4058(4): 451-470.
  64. Shih, H.-T., Ng, P. K. L. & Christy, J. H., 2015. Uca (Petruca), a new subgenus for the rock fiddler crab Uca panamensis (Stimpson, 1859) from Central America, with comments on some species of the American broad-fronted subgenera. Zootaxa 4034(3): 471-494.
  65. Shih, H.-T., 2015. Uca (Xeruca), a new subgenus for the Taiwanese fiddler crab Uca formosensis Rathbun, 1921 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae), based on morphological and molecular evidence. Zootaxa 3974(2): 151-169. PDF
  66. Ng, P. K. L. & Shih, H.-T.*, 2015. The land crabs of the Discoplax longipes A. Milne-Edwards, 1867 species group, with description of a new species from Guam (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae). Zootaxa 3980(3): 379-405.
  67. Shih, H.-T., Saher, N. U., Kamrani, E., Ng, P. K. L., Lai, Y.-C. & Liu, M.-Y., 2015. Population genetics of the fiddler crab Uca sindensis (Alcock, 1900) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from the Arabian Sea. Zoological Studies 54: 1. PDF
  68. Ng, P. K. L. & Shih, H.-T.*, 2014. The systematics of the land crabs of the Discoplax hirtipes (Dana, 1851) species-group (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Gecarcinidae), with description of a new species from the eastern Indian Ocean. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 30: 109-135. PDF
  69. Shy, J.-Y., Shih, H.-T.* & Mao, J.-J., 2014. Description of a new montane freshwater crab (Crustacea: Potamidae: Geothelphusa) from northern Taiwan. Zootaxa 3869(5): 565-572. PDF
  70. Ng, N. K., Suzuki, H., Shih, H.-T., Dewa, S.-i. & Ng, P. K. L., 2014. The hydrothermal crab, Xenograpsus testudinatus Ng, Huang & Ho, 2000 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae) in southern Japan. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 127(2): 391-399.
  71. Saher, N. U., Sahir, O., Shih, H.-T., Kamal, M. & Qureshi, N. A., 2014. On a new record of the genus Uca (Decapoda, Brachyura, Ocypodidae) found along the coast of Pakistan. Crustaceana 87(6): 666-673.
  72. Shih, H.-T. & Tu, V. D., 2014. A new species of Tiwaripotamon Bott, 1970, from northern Vietnam, with notes on T. vietnamicum (Dang & Ho, 2002) and T. edostilus Ng & Yeo, 2001 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamidae). Zootaxa 3764(1): 26-38.
  73. Shih, H.-T., Komai, T. & Liu, M.-Y., 2013. A new species of fiddler crab from the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands, Japan, separated from the widely-distributed sister species Uca (Paraleptuca) crassipes (White, 1847) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Ocypodidae). Zootaxa 3746: 175-193.
  74. de Bruyn, M., Stelbrink B., Page, T., Phillips, M. J., Lohman, D. J., Albrecht, C., Hall, R., von Rintelen, K., Ng, P. K. L., Shih, H.-T., Carvalho, G. C. & von Rintelen, T., 2013. Time and space in biogeography: response to Parenti & Ebach (2013). Journal of Biogeography 40(11): 2204-2206.
  75. Shih, H.-T., Ng, P. K. L. & Liu, M.-Y., 2013. Systematics of the Indo-West Pacific broad-fronted fiddler crabs (Crustacea: Ocypodidae: genus Uca). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 61(2): 641-649. PDF
  76. Davie, P. J. F., Wisespongpand, P. & Shih, H.-T.*, 2013. A new species of Mictyris Latreille, 1806 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Mictyridae) from the Andaman coast of Thailand, with notes on its ecology and behaviour. Zootaxa 3686: 65-76.
  77. Shih, H.-T., 2012. Distribution of fiddler crabs in East Asia, with a note on the effect of the Kuroshio Current. Kuroshio Science 6(1): 83-89. PDF
  78. Wong, K. J. H., Shih, H.-T. & Chan, B. K. K., 2012. The ghost crab Ocypode mortoni George, 1982 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae): redescription, distribution at its type locality, and the phylogeny of East Asian Ocypode species. Zootaxa 3550: 71-87.
  79. Shih, H.-T., Ng, P. K. L., Wong, K. J. H. & Chan, B. K. K., 2012. Gelasimus splendidus Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae), a valid species of fiddler crab from the northern South China Sea and Taiwan Strait. Zootaxa 3490: 30-47. PDF
  80. Tsang, L. M., Wu, T. H., Shih, H.-T., Williams, G. A., Chu, K. H. & Chan, B. K. K., 2012. Genetic and morphological differentiation of the Indo West Pacific intertidal barnacle Chthamalus malayensis. Integrative and Comparative Biology 52(3): 388-409.
  81. Lohman, D. J., M. de Bruyn, T. Page, K. von Rintelen, R. Hall, P. K.L. Ng, H.-T. Shih, G. C. Carvalho & T. von Rintelen, 2011. Biogeography of the Indo-Australian Archipelago. Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 42: 205-226.
  82. Shih, H.-T., P. K. L. Ng, T. Naruse, S. Shokita & M.-Y. Liu, 2011. Pleistocene speciation of freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Potamidae: Geothelphusa) from northern Taiwan and southern Ryukyus, as revealed by phylogenetic relationships. Zoologischer Anzeiger 250: 457-471.
  83. Wong, K. J. H., H.-T. Shih & B. K. K. Chan, 2011. Two new species of sand-bubbler crabs, Scopimera, from North China and the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dotillidae). Zootaxa 2962: 21-35. PDF
  84. Shih, H.-T. & P. K. L. Ng, 2011. Diversity and biogeography of freshwater crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae, Gecarcinucidae) from East Asia. Systematics and Biodiversity 9(1): 1-16. PDF
  85. Shih, H.-T., J.-Y. Shy, T. Naruse, D. C. J. Yeo & P. K. L. Ng, 2011. Introduction of an Indochinese freshwater crab Sayamia germaini (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gecarcinucidae) to Taiwan: morphological and molecular evidence. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 59(1): 83-90. PDF
  86. Shih, H.-T., X.-M. Zhou, G.-X. Chen, I-C. Chien & P. K. L. Ng, 2011. Recent vicariant and dispersal events affecting the phylogeny and biogeography of East Asian freshwater crab genus Nanhaipotamon (Decapoda: Potamidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 58(3): 427-438.
  87. Shih, H.-T., J.-Y. Shy & J.-H. Lee, 2010. A new freshwater crab of the genus Geothelphusa (Brachyura, Potamidae) from southwestern Taiwan. Crustaceana Monographs 14: 661-675.
  88. Shih, H.-T., P. K. L. Ng, S.-H. Fang, B. K. K. Chan & K. J. H. Wong, 2010. Diversity and distribution of fiddler crabs (Brachyura: Ocypodidae: Uca) from China, with new records from Hainan Island in the South China Sea. Zootaxa 2640: 1-19.
  89. Ng, P. K. L., H.-T. Shih*, T. Naruse & J.-Y. Shy, 2010. Using molecular tools to establish the type locality and distribution of the endemic Taiwanese freshwater crab Geothelphusa chiui Minei, 1974, (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae), with notes on the genetic diversity of Geothelphusa from eastern Taiwan. Zoological Studies 49: 544-555. PDF
  90. Davie, P. J. F., H.-T. Shih & B. K. K. Chan, 2010. A new species of Mictyris (Decapoda, Brachyura, Mictyridae) from the Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Crustaceana Monographs 11: 83-105.
  91. Wong, K. J. H., B. K. K. Chan & H.-T. Shih*, 2010. Taxonomy of the sand bubbler crabs Scopimera globosa De Haan, 1835, and S. tuberculata Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Dotillidae) in East Asia, with description of a new species from the Ryukyus, Japan. Zootaxa 2345: 43-59. PDF
  92. Wang, Y.-H. & H.-T. Shih*, 2010. Earthworm fauna of Eastern Taiwan, with descriptions of two new species (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae). Zootaxa 2341: 52-68.
  93. Shih, H.-T., T. Naruse & P. K. L. Ng, 2010. Uca jocelynae sp. nov., a new species of fiddler crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae) from the Western Pacific. Zootaxa 2337: 47-62.
  94. Shih, H.-T., E. Kamrani, P. J. F. Davie & M.-Y. Liu, 2009. Genetic evidence for the recognition of two fiddler crabs, Uca iranica and U. albimana (Crustacea: Brachyura: Ocypodidae), from the northwestern Indian Ocean, with notes on the U. lactea species-complex. Hydrobiologia 635: 373-382.
  95. Shih, H.-T. & J.-Y. Shy, 2009. Geothelphusa makatao sp. nov. (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae), a new freshwater crab from an uplifted Pleistocene reef in Taiwan. Zootaxa 2106: 51-60.
  96. Shih, H.-T., Yeo, D. C. J. & P. K. L. Ng, 2009. The collision of the Indian Plate with Asia: molecular evidence for its impact on the phylogeny of freshwater crabs (Brachyura: Potamidae). Journal of Biogeography 36(4): 703-719.
  97. Ng, P. K. L., H.-T. Shih, S. H. Tan, S. T. Ahyong & P.-H. Ho, 2008. Carcinology in Taiwan. In: Chan, T.-Y., P. K. L. Ng, S. T. Ahyong & S. H. Tan (eds.), Crustacean Fauna of Taiwan: Brachyuran Crabs, Volume I ¡X Carcinology in Taiwan and Dromiacea, Raninoida, Cyclodorippoida, pp. 1-26. National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan. PDF
  98. Shih, H.-T., J.-H. Lee & J.-Y. Shy, 2008. Three freshwater and coastal crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) new to Penghu, Taiwan, with notes on their biogeographical implications. Collection and Research 21: 39-44. PDF
  99. Shih, H.-T., T. Naruse & D. C. J. Yeo, 2008. A new species of Geothelphusa Stimpson, 1857, from Taiwan (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) based on morphological and molecular evidence, with notes on species from western Taiwan. Zootaxa 1877: 37-48.
  100. Shih, H.-T. & H. Suzuki, 2008. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and biogeography of the endemic mudflat crab Helice/Chasmagnathus complex (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from East Asia. Zoological Studies 47(1): 114-125. PDF
  101. Shih, H.-T. & Y. Cai. 2007. Two new species of land-locked freshwater shrimp genus Neocaridina Kubo, 1938 (Decapoda: Caridea: Atyidae) from Taiwan, with notes on the speciation within Taiwan Island. Zoological Studies 46(6): 680-694. PDF
  102. Yeo, D. C. J., H.-T. Shih*, R. Meier & P. K. L. Ng, 2007. Phylogeny and biogeography of the freshwater crab genus Johora (Crustacea: Brachyura: Potamidae) from the Malay Peninsula, and the origins of its insular fauna. Zoologica Scripta 36(3): 255-269. (*corresponding author)
  103. Shih, H.-T., P. K. L. Ng C. D. Schubart & H.-W. Chang, 2007. Phylogeny and phylogeography of the genus Geothelphusa (Crustacea: Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) in southwestern Taiwan based on two mitochondrial genes. Zoological Science 24(1): 57-66. PDF
  104. Shih, H.-T., S.-H. Fang & P. K. L. Ng, 2007. Phylogeny of the freshwater crabs genus Somanniathelphusa Bott (Decapoda: Parathelphusidae) from Taiwan and the coastal regions of China, with notes on their biogeography. Invertebrate Systematics 21(1): 29-37.
  105. Naruse, T, J.-H. Lee & H.-T. Shih*, 2006. Two new records of shallow-water and mangrove crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Taiwan. Collection and Research 19: 17-21. PDF
  106. Shih, H.-T., H.-C. Hung, C. D. Schubart, C. A. Chen & H.-W. Chang, 2006. Intraspecific genetic diversity of the endemic freshwater crab Candidiopotamon rathbunae (Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) reflects five million years of geological history of Taiwan. Journal of Biogeography 33: 980-989.
  107. Naruse, T, H.-T. Shih*, N. K. Ng & H.-L. Hsu. 2005. On two new records of varunid crabs (Crustacea: Brachyura: Varunidae) from southern Taiwan. Collection and Research 18: 69-79. PDF
  108. Shih, H.-T., G.-X. Chen & L.-M. Wang, 2005. A new species of freshwater crab (Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from Dongyin Island, Matsu, Taiwan, defined by morphological and molecular characters, with notes on its biogeography. Journal of Natural History 39(31): 2901-2911. PDF
  109. Shih, H.-T., H.-K. Mok & H.-W. Chang, 2005. Chimney building by male Uca formosensis Rathbun, 1921 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Ocypodidae) after pairing: a new hypothesis for chimney function. Zoological Studies 44(2): 242-251. PDF
  110. James, S. W., H.-T. Shih & H.-W. Chang, 2005. Seven new species of Amynthas (Clitellata: Megascolecidae) and new earthworm records from Taiwan. Journal of Natural History 39(14): 1007-1028. PDF
  111. Shih, H.-T., P. K. L. Ng & H.-W. Chang, 2004. Systematics of the genus Geothelphusa (Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Potamidae) from southern Taiwan: a molecular appraisal. Zoological Studies 43(3): 561-570. PDF
  112. Ng, P. K. L., C.-H. Wang, P.-H. Ho & H.-T. Shih, 2001. An annotated checklist of brachyuran crabs from Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda). National Taiwan Museum Special Publication Series 11: 1-86. PDF (24 MB)
  113. Shih, H.-T. & H.-K. Mok, 2000. Utilization of shell resources by the hermit crabs, Calcinus latens and Calcinus gaimardii, at Kenting, southern Taiwan. Journal of Crustacean Biology 20(4): 786-795. PDF
  114. Shih, H.-T. & H.-K. Mok, 2000. ETHOM: an event-recording computer software for the study of animal behavior. Acta Zoologica Taiwanica 11(1): 47-61. PDF
  115. Shih, H.-T., H.-W. Chang & J.-H. Chen, 1999. A review of the earthworms (Annelida: Oligochaeta) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 38(4): 435-442. PDF
  116. Shih, H.-T., H.-K. Mok, H.-W. Chang & S.-C. Lee, 1999. Morphology of Uca formosensis Rathbun, 1921 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae), an endemic fiddler crab from Taiwan, with notes on its ecology. Zoological Studies 38(2): 164-177. PDF, PDF (high quality)
  117. Shih, H.-T. & S.-C. Lee, 1997. Two hermit crabs, Calcinus vachoni Forest, 1958 and C. seurati Forest, 1951, from the coral reefs of Taiwan. Journal of Taiwan Museum 50(1): 21-31. PDF
  118. Shih, H.-T. & H.-K. Mok, 1996. Quadrella maculosa Alcock, 1898, a genus and species of shallow-water xanthid crab (Brachyura: Xanthoidea: Trapeziidae) new to Taiwan. Zoological Studies 35(2): 146-148. PDF
  119. Shih, H.-T. & H.-P. Yu, 1995. New records of Calcinus hermit crabs (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from Taiwan. Zoological Studies 34(4): 241-247. PDF
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