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  • 2002 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Darryl L. Felder is affiliated with the University of Louisiana at Lafayette in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a particular emphasis on ecology. Subfields of study in which they have contributed include ecology, nature and landscape conservation, oceanography, global and planetary change, and aquatic science.

The scientist's work covers various main topics including crustacean biology and ecology, coral and marine ecosystems studies, fish biology, ecology, and behavior, marine biology and ecology research, marine and fisheries research, fish biology and ecology studies, and ichthyology and marine biology.

Darryl L. Felder has published extensively, with frequent publication venues including:

  • Zootaxa
  • Journal of Crustacean Biology
  • Crustaceana
  • MorphoBank datasets
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility

Among their recent papers are:

  • A molecular phylogeny of Callianassidae and related families (Crustacea: Decapoda: Axiidea) with morphological support (2020), published in Invertebrate Systematics
  • Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments (2023), published in Systematic Biology
  • A comprehensive molecular phylogeny of the brachyuran crab superfamily Xanthoidea provides novel insights into its systematics and evolutionary history (2022), published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • Documenting decapod biodiversity in the Caribbean from DNA barcodes generated during field training in taxonomy (2020), published in Biodiversity Data Journal
  • Phylogeny of the genus Pinnixa White, 1846 (Crustacea, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae) and allies inferred from mitochondrial and nuclear molecular markers, with generic reassignment of twenty-one species (2020), published in Zoosystema

Darryl L. Felder collaborates frequently with several co-authors, including Rafael Robles, Emma Palacios Theil, Fernando Luís Medina Mantelatto, Brent P. Thoma, and Rafael Lemaitre.

In 2002, they were recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

Best Publications

  • A Classification of Living and Fossil Genera of Decapod Crustaceans

    Sammy De Grave;N. Dean Pentcheff;Shane T. Ahyong;Tin-Yam Chan

  • REVISION OF THE AMERICAN CALLIANASSIDAE (CRUSTACEA: DECAPODA: THALASSINIDEA)

    Raymond B. Manning;Darryl L. Felder

  • Ontogenetic Change in Digestive Enzyme Activity of Larval and Postlarval White Shrimp Penaeus setiferus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae).

    Donald L. Lovett;Darryl L. Felder

  • Ecological and economic implications of a tropical jellyfish invader in the Gulf of Mexico

    William M. Graham;Daniel L. Martin;Darryl L. Felder;Vernon L. Asper

  • GLYPTOGRAPSIDAE, A NEW BRACHYURAN FAMILY FROM CENTRAL AMERICA: LARVAL AND ADULT MORPHOLOGY, AND A MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY OF THE GRAPSOIDEA

    Christoph D. Schubart;José A. Cuesta;Darryl L. Felder

  • Molecular phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of nonmarine lineages within the American grapsoid crabs (Crustacea: brachyura).

    Christoph D. Schubart;Christoph D. Schubart;José A. Cuesta;Rudolf Diesel;Darryl L. Felder

  • A comprehensive and integrative reconstruction of evolutionary history for Anomura (Crustacea: Decapoda).

    Heather D Bracken-Grissom;Maren E Cannon;Patricia Cabezas;Patricia Cabezas;Rodney M Feldmann

  • The emergence of lobsters: phylogenetic relationships, morphological evolution and divergence time comparisons of an ancient group (decapoda: achelata, astacidea, glypheidea, polychelida).

    Heather D. Bracken-Grissom;Shane T. Ahyong;Richard D. Wilkinson;Rodney M. Feldmann

  • Infraorders Axiidea de Saint Laurent, 1979 and Gebiidea de Saint Laurent, 1979 (formerly known collectively as Thalassinidea)

    Peter C. Dworschak;Darryl L. Felder;Christopher C. Tudge

  • The Decapod Tree of Life: Compiling the Data and Moving toward a Consensus of Decapod Evolution

    Eather D. Bracken;Alicia Toon;Darryl L. Felder;Joel W. Martin

  • Phylogeny of the infraorder Caridea based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes (Crustacea: Decapoda)

    H.D. Bracken;S. De Grave;D. L. Felder;J. Martin

  • Molecular Phylogeny of the Thalassinidea Based on Nuclear and Mitochondrial Genes

    Rafael Robles;Christopher Tudge;Peter Dworschak;Gary Poore

  • Molecular phylogeny of the western Atlantic species of the genus Portunus (Crustacea, Brachyura, Portunidae)

    Fernando L. Mantelatto;Rafael Robles;Darryl L. Felder

  • Decapod crustacean phylogenetics

    Joel W. Martin;Keith A. Crandall;Darryl L. Felder

  • Relative Growth and Sexual Maturation in the Estuarine Ghost Shrimp Callianassa Louisianensis Schmitt, 1935

    Darryl L. Felder;Donald L. Lovett

  • Ontogeny of gut morphology in the white shrimp Penaeus setiferus (Decapoda, Penaeidae)

    Donald L. Lovett;Darryl L. Felder

  • Application of Regression Techniques to Studies of Relative Growth in Crustaceans

    Donald L. Lovett;Darryl L. Felder

  • Ontogeny of osmoregulation in the estuarine ghost shrimp Callianassa jamaicense var. louisianensis Schmitt (Decapoda, Thalassinidea)

    Jennifer M. Felder;Darryl L. Felder;Steven C. Hand

  • Molecular phylogeny of the American Callinectes Stimpson, 1860 (Brachyura: Portunidae), based on two partial mitochondrial genes

    Rafael Robles;Christoph D. Schubart;Christoph D. Schubart;Jesús E. Conde;Carlos Carmona-Suárez

  • Genetic, ecological, and behavioural divergence between two sibling snapping shrimp species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheus)

    L. M. Mathews;C. D. Schubart;J. E. Neigel;D. L. Felder

  • Genetic Differentiation in Trans-floridian Species Complexes of Sesarma and Uca (Decapoda: Brachyura)

    Darryl L. Felder;Joseph L. Staton

  • Molecular phylogenetics and taxonomic reanalysis of the family Mithracidae MacLeay (Decapoda:Brachyura:Majoidea)

    Amanda M. Windsor;Amanda M. Windsor;Darryl L. Felder

  • Burrow Distributions and Population Estimates for the Fiddler Crabs Uca spinicarpa and Uca longisignalis in a Gulf of Mexico Salt Marsh

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  • Molecular phylogeny of mud crabs (Brachyura: Panopeidae) from the northwestern Atlantic and the role of morphological stasis and convergence

    C. D. Schubart;J. E. Neigel;D. L. Felder

  • ONTOGENY OF KINEMATICS IN THE GUT OF THE WHITE SHRIMP PENAEUS SETIFERUS (DECAPODA: PENAEIDAE)

    Donald L. Lovett;Darryl L. Felder

  • RELATIVE GROWTH AND SEXUAL MATURATION IN THE ESTUARINE GHOST SHRIMP

    Callianassa Louisianensis Schmitt;Darryl L. Felder;Donald L. Lovett

Frequent Co-Authors

Fernando L. Mantelatto
Fernando L. Mantelatto Universidade de São Paulo
Christoph D. Schubart
Christoph D. Schubart University of Regensburg
Rafael Lemaitre
Rafael Lemaitre National Museum of Natural History
Keith A. Crandall
Keith A. Crandall George Washington University
Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum
Tin-Yam Chan
Tin-Yam Chan National Taiwan Ocean University
Gary C. B. Poore
Gary C. B. Poore Museums Victoria
Sammy De Grave
Sammy De Grave University of Oxford
Carrie E. Schweitzer
Carrie E. Schweitzer Kent State University at Stark
Rodney M. Feldmann
Rodney M. Feldmann Kent State University

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