Rafael Lemaitre

Rafael Lemaitre (born 1952), U.S. carcinologist.

• Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, 4210 Silver Hill Road, Suitland, MD 20746, USA

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 28 taxon names authored by Rafael Lemaitre

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1992

• Lemaitre, R. & Ramos, G.E. 1992. A collection of Thalassinidea (Crustacea: Decapoda) from the Pacific coast of Colombia, with description of a new species and a checklist of the eastern Pacific species. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 105 (2): 343-358. Reference page. 

2000

• Forest, J., de Saint Laurent, M., McLaughlin, P.A. & Lemaitre, R. 2000. The marine fauna of New Zealand: Paguridea (Decapoda: Anomura) exclusive of the Lithodidae. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 114: 1–250. Reference page. 

2002

• Komai, T. & Lemaitre, R. 2002. A new species of Bathypaguropsis Mclaughlin, 1994 from Japan, and redescription of B. kuroshioensis (Miyake, 1978) (Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae). Crustaceana 75(3–4): 423–441. DOI: 10.1163/156854002760095499 Reference page. 

2003

• Poupin J. & Lemaitre R. 2003. Hermit crabs of the genus Calcinus Dana, 1851 (Decapoda: Anomura: Diogenidae) from the Austral Islands, French Polynesia, with description of a new species. Zootaxa 391: 1–20. Abstract & excerpt PDF Reference page. 

2006

• Lemaitre, R. & McLaughlin, P.A. 2006. A new genus and species of the hermit crab family Paguridae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Paguroidea) from Australia. Zootaxa 1297: 57–68. Abstract & excerpt. Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2007

• McLaughlin, P.A. & Lemaitre, R. 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. Abstract & excerpt. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1560.1.3 Full article (PDF). Reference page. 

2009

• De Grave, S., Pentcheff, N.D., Ahyong, S.T., Chan T-Y., Crandall, K.A., Dworschak, P.C., Felder, D.L., Feldmann, R.M., Fransen, C.H.J.M., Goulding, L.Y.D., Lemaitre, R., Low, M.E.Y., Martin, J.W., Ng, P.K.L., Schweitzer, C.E., Tan, S.H., Tshudy, D. & Wetzer, R. 2009. A classification of living and fossil genera of decapod crustaceans. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology Supplement 21: 1–109. PDF. Reference page. 

2015

• Ayón-Parente, M., Hendrickx, M.E. & Lemaitre, R. 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3915.4.2. Reference page. 
• Lemaitre, R. & Tavares, M. 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): 451–506. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3994.4.1. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2016

• Lima, D.J.M. & Lemaitre, R. 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4161.3.12. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Ramos-Tafur, G.E. & Lemaitre, R. 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4173.5.4. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2017

• Criales, M.M. & Lemaitre, R. 2017. A new species of Odontozona Holthuis, 1946 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Stenopodidae) from the Caribbean Sea. Zootaxa 4276(3): 405–415. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4276.3.5. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 
• Landschoff, J. & Lemaitre, R. 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. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.676.12987. Reference page. 
• Landschoff, J. & Lemaitre, R. 2017. Crossing the Indian Ocean: a range extension for Goreopagurus poorei Lemaitre & McLaughlin, 2003 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae). Zootaxa 4306(2): 271–278. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4306.2.7. Reference page. 
• Lemaitre, R. 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. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.646.11132. Reference page. 
• Lemaitre, R., Felder, D.L. & Poupin, J. 2017. Discovery of a new micro-pagurid fauna (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae) in the Lesser Antilles, Caribbean Sea. Zoosystema 39(2): 151-195. full article (PDF). Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L. & Lemaitre, R. 2017. On the taxonomy of two poorly known species of Geosesarma De Man, 1892 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Sesarmidae) from the Philippines. Zootaxa 4250(4): 475–483. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4250.4.5. Reference page. 
• Ramos-Tafur, G.E. & Lemaitre, R. 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): 401–508. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4303.4.3. Full article (PDF) Reference page. 

2018

• Lemaitre, R., Rahayu, D.L. & Komai, T. 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. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.752.23712 ResearchGate . PDF Reference page. 

2019

• Felder, D.L., Lemaitre, R. & Craig, C. 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. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4683.4.4 pdf Reference page. 

2020

• Lemaitre, R. 2020. New and rare micro-pagurid hermit crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico. Zootaxa. 4722(4): 301-325. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4722.4.1 Reference page. 

2023

• Lemaitre, R. 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: e2023011. DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2023011 . Reference page.