Rafael LemaitreResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-0667
• Fax: 202-357-3043
• E-mail: lemaitrr@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

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.

Selected Publications:

McLaughlin, P. A., R. Lemaitre, & U. Sorhannus. 2007. Hermit crab phylogeny: its reappraisal and its “fallout”. –– Journal of Crustacean Biology, 27(1): 97–115.

Lemaitre, R. 2004. Discovery of the first hermit crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Parapaguridae) associated with hydrothermal vents.–– Cahiers de Biologie Marine, 45: 325–334.

Lemaitre, R. 2004. A worldwide review of hermit crab species of the genus Sympagurus Smith, 1883 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Parapaguridae). In: B. Marshall & B. Richer de Forges (eds.), Tropical Deep–Sea Benthos, volume 23.–– Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 191: 85–149.

McLaughlin, P. A., R. Lemaitre & C. C. Tudge. 2004. Carcinization in the Anomura – fact or fiction? II. Evidence from larval, megalopal and early juvenile morphology.–– Contributions to Zoology, 73(3): 165–205.

McLaughlin, P. A., & R. Lemaitre. 2001. A new family for a new genus and new species of hermit crab of the superfamily Paguroidea (Decapoda: Anomura) and its phylogenetic implications.–– Journal of Crustacean Biology, 21(4): 1062–1076.

Lemaitre, R. 1999. Crustacea Decapoda: A review of the species of the genus Parapagurus Smith, 1879 (Parapaguridae) from the Pacific and Indian Oceans. In: A. Crosnier (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 20. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, 180, 303–378.

McLaughlin, P. A., & R. Lemaitre. 1997. Carcinization in the Anomura – fact or fiction? I. Evidence from adult morphology.–– Contributions to Zoology 67(2): 79–123.

Lemaitre, R. 1996. Hermit crabs of the family Parapaguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from Australia: species of Strobopagurus Lemaitre, 1989, Sympagurus Smith, 1883 and two new genera.–– Records of the Australian Museum 48(2): 163–221.

Lemaitre, R. 1995. A review of hermit crabs of the genus Xylopagurus A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae), with description of two new species.–– Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology, 570: i–iii + 1–27.

Lemaitre, R. 1989. Revision of the genus Parapagurus (Anomura, Paguroidea, Parapaguridae), including redescriptions of the western Atlantic species.–– Zoologische Verhandelingen 253: 1–106.

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