Project Title: Systematics of crabs from the Family Varunidae (Decapoda, Brachuyra).
Research interest: systematics of the Varunid crabs and its sister families in the Grapsoidea...
Research habitats: Coastal areas (beaches, mangroves, river mouths) freshwater stream in high mountains, caves, and hydrothermal vents etc.
Selected publications:
Ng, N.K. & P.K.L. Ng, 2006. Cancer setosus Fabricius, 1798: (currently
Pseudograpsus setosus; Crustacea, Decapoda): Proposed replacement of syntypes by a neotype.
Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature ( United Kingdom): in press
Ng, N. K., M. R. Manuel & P. K. L. Ng. 2006. A new genus of varunid crabs from the Philippines (Crustacea: Decapoda: Grapsidae).
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington ( USA), 119 (1): 49-57.
Ng, N. K. & M. Segonzac, 2006. Arthropoda, Crustacea, Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsidae. Denisia (France) 18: 474.
Osawa, M. & N. K. Ng, 2006. A new species of
Ptychognathus Stimpson, 1858 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Varunidae) from the Ryukyu Islands, southwestern Japan.
Zootaxa (USA) 1260: 57-66.
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.
Collections and Research ( Taiwan), 18: 69-79.
Chan, T.-Y., P.K.L. Ng & N.K. Ng, 2005. The nomenclature and taxonomy of
Eriocheir formosa Chan, Hung and Yu, 1995 (Brachyura, Varunidae) from Taiwan: A rebuttal of Tang et al. (2003, 204).
Crustaceana (The Netherlands), 78(4): 457-464.
Jeng, M.-S., N.K. Ng, & P.K.L. Ng. 2004. Hydrothermal vent crabs feeds on ‘marine snow’.
Nature ( United Kingdom), 432: 969.
Ng, P.K.L., Ng & N.K. Ng, 2003. Conleyus defodio, a new genus and new species of carcinoplacine crab (Crustacea: Brachyura: Gonoplacidae) from deep rubble beds in Guam. Micronesica ( Guam). 35-36: 431-439
Ng, N.K. & P.K.L. Ng, 2002. Orcovita mcneiceae, a new species of anchialine crab (Bachyura: Grapsidae: Varuninae) from the Loyaty Islands.
Crustaceana (The Netherlands), 75(5): 663-670.
Ng, N.K. & M. S. Jeng, 2002. On the taxonomy of
Pseudograpsus setosus (Fabricius, 1778) (Decapoda, Brachyura, Grapsidae).
Crustaceana (The Netherlands). 75(6): 759-776.
Ng, N. K., Liu Hung-Chang & Ho Ping-Ho, 2001.
Plagusia speciosa Dana, 1851, a new record for Taiwan (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Plagusiinae) with a key to the genus for Taiwan.
National Taiwan Museum Special Publication ( Taiwan), 53(2): 13-22.
Ng, N.K. & T. Komai. 2000. Notes on the male of
Scutumara enodis Ng & Nakasone, 1993 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae).
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington ( USA), 113 (1): 48-53.
Ng, N. K., J.-F. Huang & P.-H. Ho. 2000. Description of a new species of hydrothermal crab,
Xenograpsus testudinatus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae) from Taiwan. In: J.-S. Hwang et al. (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Symposium on Marine Biology in Taiwan - Crustacea and Zooplankton Taxonomy, Ecology and Living Resources.
National Taiwan Museum Special Publication, Series No. 10: 191-199.
Ng, N.K., J. Guo, & P.K.L. Ng, 1999. On the generic affinities of
Eriocheir leptognathus Rathbun, 1913, and Eriocheir formosa
Chan, Hung and Yu, 1995, with description of a new genus (Crustacea: Grapsidae: Varuninae).
Journal of Crustacean Biology, 19(1): 154-170.
Ng, N.K., A.Y. Dai, J. Guo & P.K.L. Ng, 1998. Complete larval development of
Eriocheir hepuensis Dai, 1991 reared in the laboratory. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae).
Crustaceana , 71 (5): 493-517.
Guo, J. N.K. Ng, A.Y. Dai & P.K.L.Ng, 1997. The taxonomy of three commercially important species of mitten crabs of the genus
Eriocheir De Haan, 1835 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Grapsidae).
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 45(2):445-476.
Ng, N.K, A. Y. Dai & P.K.L. Ng, 1997.
Sinopotamon baiyangense, a new species of cavenicolous potamid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura: Potamidae) from southern China.
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 45(1): 139-144.
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