Lemaitre, Rafael
Research Zoologist and Curator of Crustacea
Lemaitre, Rafael
Research Zoologist and Curator of Crustacea
Systematics, biology, and zoogeography of decapod crustaceans, especially hermit crabs, worldwide.
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.A., Universidad J. Tadeo Lozano
- M.S., Florida International University
- Ph.D., University of Miami
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Landschoff, Jannes and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2024. "Rediscovering the unusual Cancellus makrothrix Stebbing, 1924 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae) in the “Great African Seaforest”." Zootaxa, 5492, (4) 530–544. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5492.4.3. 2024
- Lemaitre, Rafael and Felder, Darryl L. 2023. "A new genus and species of micro-pagurid hermit crab (Crustacea, Decapoda, Paguridae) from the rariphotic reef zone in Curaçao, Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea." Zootaxa, 5277, (2) 374–380. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5277.2.7. 2023
- De Grave, Sammy, Decock, Wim, Dekeyzer, Stefanie, Davie, Peter J. F., Fransen, Charles H. J. M., Boyko, Christopher B., Poore, Gary C. B., Macpherson, Enrique, Ahyong, Shane T., Crandall, Keith A., de Mazancourt, Valentin, Osawa, Masayuki, Chan, Tin-Yam, Ng, Peter K. L., Lemaitre, Rafael, van der Meij, Sancia E. T., and Santos, Sandro. 2023. "Benchmarking global biodiversity of decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda)." Journal of Crustacean Biology, 43, (3). https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/ruad042. 2023
- Felder, Darryl L., Lemaitre, Rafael, and Mantelatto, Fernando L. 2023. "Redescription of the mole crab Emerita portoricensis Schmitt, 1935 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippidae), based on Caribbean populations from Puerto Rico, Belize, Costa Rica, and Panama." Zootaxa, 5227, (3) 341–354. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5227.3.3. 2023
- Lemaitre, Rafael. 2023. "The taxonomic status of Pagurus bouvieri (Faxon, 1895), an obscure name, and redescription of Pagurus smithi (Benedict, 1892), a poorly known species (Decapoda: Paguridae)." Nauplius, 31. https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e2023011. 2023
- Poupin, Joseph and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2022. "A new hermit crab of the genus Calcinus from Rapa Island, French Polynesia with affinities to Calcinus dapsiles Morgan, 1989 and Calcinus sirius Morgan, 1991 (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae)." Nauplius, 30. https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e2022014. 2022
- Parente, Manuel Ayon, Hendrickx, Michel E., and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2022. "Generic reassignment and redescription of Pagurus gladius (Benedict, 1892), and description of a new species of Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Paguroidea: Paguridae) from the Mexican Pacific." Nauplius, 30. https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e2022039. 2022
- Parente, Manuel Ayón, Hendrickx, Michel E., and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2022. "Generic reassignment and redescription of Pagurus gladius (Benedict, 1892), and description of a new species of Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Paguroidea: Paguridae) from the Mexican Pacific." Nauplius, 30. https://doi.org/10.1590/2358-2936e2022039. 2022
- Komai, Tomoyuki and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2022. "Reinstatement of "Hippolyte St. Pauli" Brandt, 1851 as a valid species of Lebbeus White, 1847 (Decapoda: Caridea: Thoridae)." Zootaxa, 5168, (3) 350–360. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5168.3.6. 2022
- Felder, Darryl L. and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2020. "A new species of the hermit crab genus Cancellus H. Milne Edwards, 1836 from a mesophotic deep bank in the northwestern Gulf of Mexico (Crustacea: Decapoda: Diogenidae)." Zootaxa, 4890, (4) 589–598. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4890.4.10. 2020
- Lemaitre, Rafael. 2020. "New and rare micro-pagurid hermit crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico." Zootaxa, 4722, (4) 301–325. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4722.4.1. 2020
- Felder, Darryl L., Lemaitre, Rafael, and Craig, Catherine. 2019. "Two new species of the Phimochirus holthuisi complex from the Gulf of Mexico, supported by morphology, color, and genetics (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae)." Zootaxa, 4683, (4) 531–551. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4683.4.4. 2019
- Lemaitre, Rafael, Rahayu, Dwi Listyo, and Komai, Tomoyuki. 2018. "A revision of "blanket-hermit crabs" of the genus Paguropsis Henderson, 1888, with the description of a new genus and five new species (Crustacea, Anomura, Diogenidae)." ZooKeys, (752) 17–97. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.752.23712. 2018
- Tudge, Christopher C., Lemaitre, Rafael, and Schneider-Paolantonio, Katie. 2018. "Studies of male sexual tubes in hermit crabs (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea). III. Morphology of the sexual tube in Catapagurus sharreri A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 (Paguridae)." Journal of Crustacean Biology, 38, (2) 235–240. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcbiol/rux124. 2018
- Griffiths, Charles L., Roberts, Selwyn, Branch, George M., Eckel, Korbinian, Schubart, Christoph D., and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2018. "The porcelain crab Porcellana africana Chace, 1956 (Decapoda: Porcellanidae) introduced into Saldanha Bay, South Africa." BioInvasions Records, 7, (2) 133–142. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2018.7.2.04. 2018
- Jung, J., Lemaitre, Rafael, and Kim, W. 2017. "A new hermit crab species of the genus Tomopaguropsis Alcock, 1905 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae) from the Bohol Sea, Philippines." Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 65 168–174. 2017
- Criales, María M. and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2017. "A new species of Odontozona Holthuis, 1946 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Stenopodidae) from the Caribbean Sea." Zootaxa, 4276, (3). https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4276.3.5. 2017
- Ramos-Tafur, Gabriel E. and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2017. "A new species of shrimp of the genus Periclimenaeus Borradaile, 1915 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from the southeastern Gulf of Mexico, including a key to the western Atlantic species of the genus." Zootaxa, 4303, (4). https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4303.4.3. 2017
- Landschoff, Jannes and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2017. "Crossing the Indian Ocean: a range extension for Goreopagurus poorei Lemaitre & McLaughlin, 2003 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae)." Zootaxa, 4306, (2) 271–278. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4306.2.7. 2017
- Landschoff, Jannes and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2017. "Differentiation of three common deep-water hermit crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Parapaguridae) from the South African demersal abundance surveys, including the description of a new species of Paragiopagurus Lemaitre, 1996." ZooKeys, 676 21–45. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.676.12987. 2017
- Lemaitre, Rafael, Felder, Darryl L., and Poupin, Joseph. 2017. "Discovery of a new micro-pagurid fauna (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae) in the Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea." Zoosystema, 39, (2) 151. https://doi.org/10.5252/z2017n2a1. 2017
- Lemaitre, Rafael. 2017. "Discovery of a new species of hermit crab of the genus Pylopaguropsis Alcock, 1905 from the Caribbean: "den commensal" or "cleaner"? (Crustacea, Anomura, Paguridae)." Zookeys, (646) 139–158. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.646.11132. 2017
- Ng, Peter K. L. and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2017. "On the taxonomy of two poorly known species of Geosesarma De Man, 1892 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from the Philippines." Zootaxa, 4250, (5). https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4250.5.5. 2017
- Lima, Daniel José Marcondes and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2016. "A new species of hermit crab of the genus Pagurus Fabricius, 1775 (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae) from the southern Caribbean off Venezuela." Zootaxa, 4161, (3) 445–450. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4161.3.12. 2016
- Ramos-Tafur, Gabriel and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2016. "A new species of symbiotic palaemonid shrimp of the genus Pseudocoutierea Holthuis, 1951 (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from the eastern Gulf of Mexico, with an updated key for the identification of species of the genus." Zootaxa, 4173, (5) 475–482. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4173.5.4. 2016
- Lemaitre, Rafael. 2015. "A new species of the hermit crab genus Michelopagurus McLaughlin, 1997 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae) from Moorea, French Polynesia." Zoosystema, 37, (2) 363–370. https://doi.org/10.5252/z2015n2a5. 2015
- Lemaitre, Rafael and Tavares, Marcos. 2015. "New taxonomic and distributional information on hermit crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguroidea) from the Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, and Atlantic coast of South America." Zootaxa, 3994, (4) 451. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3994.4.1. 2015
- Ayón-Parente, Manuel, Hendrickx, Michel E., and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2015. "Redescription and taxonomic status of Paguristes praedator Glassell, 1937 and P. oxyophthalmus Holthuis, 1959 (Anomura: Paguroidea: Diogenidae), with an emendation to the diagnosis of the genus Areopaguristes Rahayu & McLaughlin, 2010." Zootaxa, 3915, (4) 491–509. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3915.4.2. 2015
- Vázquez-Bader, Ana Rosa, Gracia, Adolfo, and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2014. "A new species of Munidopsis Whiteaves, 1874 (Crustacea: Anomura: Galatheoidea: Munidopsidae) from the Gulf of Mexico and Caribbean Sea." Zootaxa, 3821, (3). https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3821.3.4. 2014
- Lemaitre, Rafael. 2014. "A worldwide taxonomic and distributional synthesis of the genus Oncopagurus Lemaitre, 1966 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Parapaguridae), with descriptions of nine new species." Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 62 210–301. 2014
- Lemaitre, Rafael, Vázquez-Bader, Ana Rosa, and Gracia, Adolfo. 2014. "An unusual new species of paguroid (Crustacea, Anomura, Paguridae) from deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico." ZooKeys, (449) 57–67. https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.449.8541. 2014
- Negri, Mariana, Lemaitre, Rafael, and Mantelatto, Fernando L. 2014. "Molecular and morphological resurrection of Clibanarius symmetricus (Randall, 1840), a cryptic species hiding under the name for the “thinstripe” hermit crab C. vittatus (Bosc, 1802) (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae)." Journal of Crustacean Biology, 34, (6) 848–861. https://doi.org/10.1163/1937240X-00002277. 2014
- Lemaitre, Rafael and Tavares, Marcos. 2014. "New morphological and distributional information on Homolodromiidae and Homolidae (Decapoda: Brachyura) from the Americas, with description of a new species and comments on western Pacific species." Journal of Crustacean Biology, 34, (4) 504–524. https://doi.org/10.1163/1937240X-00002243. 2014
- Poore, Gary C. B., Ahyong, Shane T, Bracken-Grissom, Heather, Chan, Tin-Yam, Chu, Ka H., Crandall, Keith A., Dworschak, Peter C., Felder, Darryl L., Feldmann, Rodney M., Hyžný, Matúš, Karasawa, Hiroaki, Lemaitre, Rafael, Komai, Tomoyuki, Li, Xinzheng, Mantelatto, Fernando L., Martin, Joel W., Ngoc-Ho, Nguyen, Robles, Rafael, Schweitzer, Carrie E., Tamaki, Akio, Tsang, Ling M., and Tudge, Christopher C. 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://doi.org/10.1163/15685403-00003354. 2014
- Poupin, Joseph and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2014. "Porcellanid crabs from Guadeloupe Island (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura), with an updated list of species from the Lesser Antilles." Zoosystema, 36, (1) 5–27. https://doi.org/10.5252/z2014n1a1. 2014
- Bracken-Grissom, Heather, Cannon, Maren E., Cabezas, Patricia, Feldmann, Rodney M., Schweitzer, Carrie E., Ahyong, Shane T, Felder, Darryl L., Lemaitre, Rafael, and Crandall, Keith A. 2013. "A comprehensive and integrative reconstruction of evolutionary history for Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda)." BMC Evolutionary Biology, 13 128. https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2148-13-128. 2013
- Lemaitre, Rafael, Campos, Néstor H., Viloria Maestre, Efraín, and Windsor, Amanda M. 2013. "Discovery of an alien crab, Scylla serrata (Forsskål, 1775) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Portunidae), from the Caribbean coast of Colombia." BioInvasions Records: International Journal of Field Research on Biological Invasions, 2, (4) 311–315. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2013.2.4.08. 2013
- 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. 2012
- 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. https://doi.org/10.1163/156854012X634384. 2012
- Appeltans, Ward, Ahyong, Shane T, Anderson, Gary, Angel, Martin V, Artois, Tom, Bailly, Nicolas, Bamber, Roger, Barber, Anthony, Bartsch, Ilse, Berta, Annalisa, Błażewicz-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 Gilbert, 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. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.09.036. 2012
- 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. 2011
- Lemaitre, Rafael. 2010. "A new species of Micropagurus McLaughlin, 1986 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae) from French Polynesia." Crustaceana Monographs, 14 379–388. 2010
- 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. 2010
- 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. 2010
- Lemaitre, Rafael, Tudge, Christopher 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. 2010
- 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." Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 21 Supplement 1–109. 2009
- McLaughlin, Patsy A. and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2009. "A New Classification for the Pylochelidae (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) and Descriptions of New Taxa." Raffles Bulletin of Zoology, 20 supplement 159–231. 2009
- 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. 2009
- 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. 2009
- McLaughlin, Patsy A., Lemaitre, Rafael, Ferrari, Frank D., Felder, Darryl L., and Bauer, R. T. 2008. "A reply to TW Flegel." Aquaculture, 275, (1-4) 370–373. 2008
- McLaughlin, Patsy A. and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2008. "Larvae of two species of Trizocheles (Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea: Pylochelidae: Trizochelinae), description of the adult of one, and preliminary implications of development on pylochelid phylogeny." Zootaxa, (1911) 52–68. 2008
- McLaughlin, Patsy A. and Lemaitre, Rafael. 2007. "A new and distinctive species of the hermit crab genus Catapaguropsis (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguridae) from the South China Sea." Zootaxa, (1560) 31–41. 2007
- McLaughlin, Patsy A., Lemaitre, Rafael, and Sorhannus, Ulf. 2007. "Hermit crab phylogeny: a reappraisal and its "fall-out"." Journal of Crustacean Biology, 27, (1) 97–115. https://doi.org/10.1651/S-2675.1. 2007
- McLaughlin, Patsy A., Lemaitre, Rafael, and Ortiz, M. 2007. "Redescription of Pylocheles (Bathycheles) cubensis Ortiz & Gómez, 1986, the senior synonym of Pylocheles (B.) chacei Forest, 1987 (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguroidea, Pylochelidae)." Zootaxa, (1406) 41–46. 2007
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- Richer, de Forges, Chan, T. Y., Corbari, L., Lemaitre, Rafael, Macpherson, E., Ahyong, Shane, and Ng, Peter. 2013. "The MUSORSTOM-TDSB deep-sea benthos exploration program (1976-2012): An overview of crustacean discoveries and new perspectives on deep-sea zoology and biogeography." In Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Ayhong, Shane, Chan, Tin-Yam, Corbari, Laure, and Ng, Peter, editors. 13–66. In Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. 2013
- Lemaitre, Rafael. 2013. "The genus Paragiopagurus Lemaitre, 1996 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Paguroidea, Parapaguridae): A worldwide review and summary, with descriptions of five new species." In Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 27. Ayhong, Shane, Chan, Tin-Yam, Corbari, Laure, and Ng, Peter, editors. 311–421. In Mémoires du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle. 2013
- 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 Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters and Biota Vol. 1, Biodiversity. Felder, Darryl L. and Camp, David K., editors. 1019–1104. College Station, Texas: Texas A&M University Press. 2009
- 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." In Proceedings ofthe Smithsonian Marine Science Symposium. Lang, Michael A., Macintyre, Ian G., and Rützler, Klaus, editors. 181–188. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. In Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences. https://doi.org/10.5479/si.01960768.38.181. 2009
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