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Under the support of the bilateral grant between MOST, Taiwan and RFBR, Russia, Dr Benny K.K. Chan from Academia Sinica, Taiwan join forces with Prof. Gregory Kolbasov and Alexandra Petrunina in Moscow State University, Russia to explore the diversity and phylogeny of some unique symbiotic and parasitic crustaceans in Taiwan. Under 10 years of collaborations, both the Taiwan and Russian team studied large symbiotic or parasitic crustacean groups including Superorder Acrothoracica – burrowing barnacles, symbionts of corals, mollusks, bryozoans. Sponge barnacles of superfamily Archaeobalanidae – symbionts of sponges and soft corals and Subclass Ascothoracida – parasites of cnidarians and echinoderms. Research deliverables including totally 13 publications: 9 in WoS and Scopus journals, including first in the world on molecular analysis of the Acrothoracica (Lin H.Ch., Kolbasov G., Chan B.K.K. 2016. Phylogenetic relationships of Darwin's "Mr Arthrobalanus": the burrowing barnacles (Cirripedia: Acrothoracica). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, 100 (2016): 292-302. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.016) and a large monograph on the Acrothoracica of Taiwan. The biology of these groups of crustaceans will be described and introduced in the presentation.