Rafael LemaitreResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 301-238-1181
• Fax: 301-238-3361
• E-mail: lemaitrr@si.edu



• Mailing and Courier Delivery Address:
  Department of Invertebrate Zoology
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  Museum Support Center, MRC 534
  4210 Silver Hill Road
  Suitland, MD 20746

Responsibilities: Curator of decapod Crustacea

Education:
Ph.D. 1986: University of Miami, Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science.
M.S. 1981: Florida International University.
B.S. 1978: Fundación Universidad Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Bogotá, Colombia.

Research Interests: Systematics, taxomomy, zoogeography, and biology of decapod crustaceans, particularly Paguroidea (hermit crabs), worldwide.

Professional Activities:
Member of: American Association for the Advancement of Science, Biological Society of Washington, International Association of Astacology (2006–present), The Crustacean Society (member 1981–present), Carcinological Society of Japan, Brazilian Carcinological Society.

President–elect, The Crustacean Society.

"Correspondant", Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.

Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Biology, University of Louisiana at Lafayette.

Editorial Board of: Acta Biológica Colombiana, Boletín del Insituto Oceanográfico de Venezuela, Universidad de Oriente, Boletín de Investigaciones Marinas y Costeras, Biota Colombiana.

Honors: Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science.

Recent Publications:

Cardoso, Irene and Lemaitre, Rafael 2012. First Reports of Deep-Water Hermit Crabs Parapagurus Smith, 1879 (Decapoda, Parapaguridae) and Coelenterate Associates from the Mid-Atlantic Ridge and South Atlantic. Crustaceana, 85(4-5): 591-600. doi:10.1163/156854012X634384

Lemaitre, Rafael and Felder, Darryl L. 2012. A new species of the hermit crab genus Areopaguristes Rahayu & McLaughlin, 2010 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) discovered in the Mesoamerican Barrier Reef of Belize, Caribbean Sea. Zootaxa, 3480: 67-79.

Appeltans, Ward, Ahyong, Shane T, Anderson, Gary, Angel, Martin V, Artois, Tom, Bailly, Nicolas, Bamber, Roger, Barber, Anthony, Bartsch, Ilse, Berta, Annalisa, Blazewicz-Paszkowycz, Magdalena, Bock, Phil, Boxshall, Geoff, Boyko, Christopher B, Brandão, Simone Nunes, Bray, Rod A, Bruce, Niel L, Cairns, Stephen D, Chan, Tin-Yam, Cheng, Lanna, Collins, Allen G, Cribb, Thomas, Curini-Galletti, Marco, Dahdouh-Guebas, Farid, Davie, Peter J F., et al 2012. The Magnitude of Global Marine Species Diversity. Current Biology, 22(23): 2189-2202. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036

Lemaitre, Rafael and Felder, Darryl L. 2011. A new genus of Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) for a new species from the tropical eastern Pacific and Pagurus longimanus Wass, 1963 from the tropical western Atlantic. Zootaxa, 3125: 39-50.

Lemaitre, R., Tudge, C. C. and McLaughlin, P. A. 2010. Preliminary study of the preungual process in the Paguroidea, with emphasis on the Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura). Nauplius, 18(1): 13-23.

McLaughlin, Patsy A., Lemaitre, Rafael and Crandall, Keith A. 2010. Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea). Part 3, Aegloidea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, supplement, 23: 131-137.

McLaughlin, Patsy A., Komai, Tomoyuki, Lemaitre, Rafael and Rahayu, Dwi Listyo 2010. Annotated checklist of anomuran decapod crustaceans of the world (exclusive of the Kiwaoidea and families Chirostylidae and Galatheidae of the Galatheoidea). Part 1, Lithodoidea, Lomisoidea and Paguroidea. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, supplement, 23: 5-107.

Lemaitre, Rafael 2010. A new species of Micropagurus McLaughlin, 1986 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae) from French Polynesia. Crustaceana Monographs, 14: 379-388.

De Grave, Sammy, Pentcheff, N. Dean, Ahyong, Shane T., Chan, Tin-Yam, Crandall, Keith A., Dworschak, Peter C., Felder, Darryl L., Feldmann, Rodney M., Fransen, Charles H. J. M., Goulding, Laura Y. D., Lemaitre, Rafael, Low, Martyn E. Y., Martin, Joel W., Ng, Peter K. L., Schweitzer, Carrie E., Tan, S. H., Tshudy, Dale and Wetzer, Regina 2009. A Classification of Living and Fossil Genera of Decapod Crustaceans. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 21 Supplement: 1-109.

Felder, Darryl L., Dworschak, Peter C., Robles, Rafael, Bracken, Heather D., Windsor, Amanda M., Felder, Jennifer M. and Lemaitre, Rafael 2009. Obvious invaders and overlooked infauna: Unexpected constituents of the decapod crustacean fauna at Twin Cays, Belize. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences, 38: 181-188.

Lemaitre, Rafael, McLaughlin, Patsy A. and Sorhannus, Ulf 2009. Phylogenetic relationships within the Pylochelidae (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea): A cladistic analysis based on morphological characters. Zootaxa, 2022: 1-14.

Lemaitre, Rafael and McLaughlin, Patsy A. 2009. Recent Advances and Conflicts in Concepts of Anomuran Phylogeny (Crustacea: Malacostraca). Arthropod Systematics & Phylogeny, 67(2): 119-135.

McLaughlin, Patsy A. and Lemaitre, Rafael 2009. A New Classification for the Pylochelidae (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) and Descriptions of New Taxa. The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 20 supplement: 159-231.

Felder, Darryl L., Alvarez, F., Goy, J. W. and Lemaitre, Rafael 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea. In: Felder, Darryl L. and Camp, David K., Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota Vol. 1, Biodiversity. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press,() pp.1019-1104.



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