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Prof. Dr Chan, Tin-Yam
Information last updated: 2026-09-28

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National Taiwan Ocean University; Institute of Marine Biology (IMB), more Function: Professor Direct contact at institute: E-mail:

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WoRMS Editorial Board (WoRMS editors), more Function: Taxonomic editor

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DecaNet eds. (2026). DecaNet. Accessed at https://www.decanet.info on yyyy-mm-dd, more

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A1 Publications (17) [show]
Kou, Q.; Chan, T.-Y.; Li, X. (2025). A new species of the rare genus Segonzackomaius Burukovsky, 2011 (Decapoda, Caridea, Nematocarcinidae) from the Northwest Pacific. Zootaxa 5627(2): 373-386. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5627.2.8, 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 Homberger, L.; Xu, J.; Brandis, D.; Chan, T.-Y.; Keirsebelik, H.; Normant-Saremba, M.; Schoelynck, J.; Chu, K.H.; Ewers-Saucedo, C. (2022). Genetic and morphological evidence indicates the persistence of Japanese mitten crab mitochondrial DNA in Europe for over 20 years and its introgression into Chinese mitten crabs. NeoBiota 73: 137-152. https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.73.72566 Komai, T.; Chang, S.-C.; Chan, T.-Y. (2022). A new species of the deep-sea shrimp genus Glyphocrangon A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Decapoda: Caridea: Glyphocrangonidae) from the South China Sea off Pratas Island. Zootaxa 5141(2): 140-150. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5141.2.2, more Komai, T.; Chan, T.-Y.; Chang, S.-C. (2021). Redescription of the colorful deep-water shrimp Lebbeus compressus Holthuis, 1947 and description of a closely allied new species from Taiwan (Decapoda: Caridea: Thoridae). J. Crust. Biol. 41(3): ruab048. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruab048, 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 Chan, T.-Y.; Cleva, R.; Chu, K.H. (2016). On the genus Trachysalambria Burkenroad, 1934 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae), with descriptions of three new species. Zootaxa 4150(3): 201-254. https://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4150.3.1 Robalino, J.; Wilkins, B.; Bracken-Grissom, H.D.; Chan, T.-Y.; O’Leary, M.A. (2016). The origin of large-bodied shrimp that dominate modern global aquaculture. PLoS One 11(7): e0158840. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158840 De Grave, S.; Chan, T.-Y.; Hou Chu, K.; Yang, C.-H.; Landeira, J.M. (2015). Phylogenetics reveals the crustacean order Amphionidacea to be larval shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea). NPG Scientific Reports 5(17464): 8. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep17464 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 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 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 Anker, A.; Jeng, M.-S.; Chan, T.-Y. (2001). Two unusual species of alpheidae (Decapoda: Caridea) associated with upogebiid mudshrimps in the mudflats of Taiwan and Vietnam. J. Crust. Biol. 21(4): 1049-1061 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 Lin, F.-J.; Kensley, B.; Chan, T.-Y. (2000). The rare axiid genus Oxyrhynchaxius parisi, 1971 (Decapoda: Thalassinidea), with a description of a new species from Australia. J. Crust. Biol. 20 Special No.2: 199-206, more Tong, J.G.; Chan, T.-Y.; Chu, K.H. (2000). A preliminary phylogenetic analysis of Metapenaeopsis (Decapoda: Penaeidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences of selected species from the Indo-West Pacific. J. Crust. Biol. 20(3): 541-549. https://dx.doi.org/10.1651/0278-0372(2000)020[0541:APPAOM]2.0.CO;2 Chan, T.-Y.; Yu, H.P. (1995). The rare lobster genus Palinustus A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Decapoda: Palinuridae), with description of a new species. J. Crust. Biol. 15(2): 376-394. https://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1548964
Peer reviewed publications (13) [show]
Ng, W.-L.; Chen, C.-A.; Teng, S.T.; Tuzan, A.D.; Mullungal, M.N.; Chan, T.-Y. (2023). A new record of Panulirus homarus homarus (Panulirus spp.) from Malaysia waters with its molecular phylogeny. Borneo Journal of Resource Science & Technology 13(2): 175-185. https://dx.doi.org/10.33736/bjrst.6033.2023, 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. 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 Chan, T.-Y.; Ma, K.Y.; Chu, K.H. (2013). The deep-sea spiny lobster genus Puerulus Ortmann, 1897 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Palinuridae), with descriptions of five new species, in: Ahyong, S.T. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 204: pp. 191-230, more Komai, T.; Chan, T.-Y. (2013). New records of Glyphocrangon A. Milne-Edwards, 1881 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea, Glyphocrangonidae) from recent French expeditions off the Mozambique Channel and Papua New Guinea, with description of one new species, in: Ahyong, S.T. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 204: pp. 107-128, more Li, X.; Chan, T.-Y. (2013). Pandalid shrimps (Crustacea, Decapoda, Caridea) collected from the Philippines PANGLAO 2005 deep-sea expedition, in: Ahyong, S.T. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 204: pp. 129-154, more Osawa, M.; Lin, C.-W.; Chan, T.-Y. (2013). Munidopsidae Ortmann, 1898 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura) collected by the PANGLAO 2005 and AURORA expeditions to the Philippines, with descriptions of four new species from the Philippines and one new species from Taiwan, in: Ahyong, S.T. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 204: pp. 231-286, 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 Chan, T.-Y. (2004). The "Plesionika rostricrescentis (Bate, 1888)" and "P. lophotes Chace, 1985" species groups of Plesionika Bate, 1888, with descriptions of five new species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Pandalidae), in: Marshall, B.A. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 23. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993), 191: pp. 293-318, more Chan, T.-Y. (1997). Crustacea Decapoda: Palinuridae, Scyllaridae and Nephropidae collected in Indonesia by the KARUBAR Cruise, with an identification key for the species of Metanephrops, in: Crosnier, A. et al. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 16. Campagne Franco-Indonésienne KARUBAR. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie, 172: pp. 409-432, more Chan, T.-Y.; Crosnier, A. (1997). Crustacea Decapoda: Deep-sea shrimps of the genus Plesionika Bate, 1888 (Pandalidae) from French Polynesia, with descriptions of five new species, in: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 18. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie, 176: pp. 187-234, more Chan, T.-Y. (1996). Crustacea Decapoda Crangonidae: Revision of the three closely related genera Aegaeon Agassiz, 1846, Pontocaris Bate, 1888 and Parapontocaris Alcock, 1901, in: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 15. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie, 168: pp. 269-336, more Chan, T.-Y.; Crosnier, A. (1991). Crustacea Decapoda: Studies of the Plesionika narval (Fabricius, 1787) group (Pandalidae) with descriptions of six new species, in: Crosnier, A. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 9. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie, 152: pp. 413-461, more
Books (3) [show]
Baba, K.; MacPherson, E.; Lin, C.-L.; Chan, T.-Y. (2009). Crustacean fauna of Taiwan: squat lobsters (Chirostylidae and Galatheidae). National Taiwan Ocean University: Keelung. ISBN 978-986-01-8860-8. 311 pp. 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. McLaughlin, P.A.; Rahayu, D.L.; Komai, T.; Chan, T.-Y. (2007). A catalog of the hermit crabs (Paguroidea) of Taiwan. National Taiwan Ocean University: Keelung. ISBN 978-986-01-0529-2. 365 pp.
Book chapters (3) [show]
Schiaparelli, S.; Schnabel, K.E.; Richer de Forges, B.; Chan, T.-Y. (2016). Sorting, recording, preservation and storage of biological samples, in: Clark, M.R. et al. (Ed.) Biological sampling in the deep sea. pp. 338-367 Chu, K.H.; Tsang, L.M.; Ma, K.Y.; Chan, T.-Y.; Ng, P.K.L. (2009). Decapod phylogeny: What can protein-coding genes tell us?, in: Martin, J.W. et al. (Ed.) Decapod crustacean phylogenetics. Crustacean Issues, 18: pp. 89-99 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

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