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D-Index
24
Citations
4717
World Ranking
2999
National Ranking
853

Rafael Lemaitre publication distribution in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rafael Lemaitre sits on this spectrum.

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29 publications 442+

This scientist: 134 publications — 48th percentile

48% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 442 publications or more.

Rafael Lemaitre D-index placement in Animal Science and Veterinary in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Animal Science and Veterinary scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Rafael Lemaitre sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 24 D-Index — 5th percentile

5% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 77 D-Index or more.

Overview

Rafael Lemaitre is affiliated with the National Museum of Natural History in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a specialization in crustacean biology and ecology.

The scientist's work covers several related subfields, including:

  • Ecology
  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Aquatic Science
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation

Main topics addressed in their research encompass:

  • Crustacean biology and ecology
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
  • Marine and coastal plant biology
  • Fish biology, ecology, and behavior

Rafael Lemaitre has contributed multiple scholarly articles to several publication venues, with frequent publications in:

  • Zootaxa
  • Nauplius
  • Global Biodiversity Information Facility
  • Journal of Crustacean Biology
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Rafael Lemaitre include:

  • Darryl L. Felder
  • Joseph Poupin
  • Gary C. B. Poore
  • Enrique Macpherson
  • Shane T. Ahyong

Recent published papers authored or coauthored by Rafael Lemaitre are:

  • New and rare micro-pagurid hermit crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico, 2020, Zootaxa
  • Reinstatement of "Hippolyte St. Pauli" Brandt, 1851 as a valid species of Lebbeus White, 1847 (Decapoda: Caridea: Thoridae), 2022, Zootaxa
  • Redescription of the mole crab Emerita portoricensis Schmitt, 1935 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Hippidae), based on Caribbean populations from Puerto Rico, Belize, Costa Rica, and Panama, 2023, Zootaxa
  • Benchmarking global biodiversity of decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda), 2023, Journal of Crustacean Biology
  • Alain Crosnier's role in modern carcinology: exploration, international collaboration, and taxonomy, 2021, Journal of Crustacean Biology

Best Publications

  • The magnitude of global marine species diversity

    Ward Appeltans;Shane T. Ahyong;Shane T. Ahyong;Gary Anderson;Martin V. Angel

  • A Classification of Living and Fossil Genera of Decapod Crustaceans

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

  • 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

  • HERMIT CRAB PHYLOGENY: A REAPPRAISAL AND ITS “FALL-OUT”

    Patsy A. McLaughlin;Rafael Lemaitre;Ulf Sorhannus

  • Carcinization in the Anomura – fact or fiction? I. Evidence from adult morphology

    Patsy A. McLaughlin;Rafael Lemaitre

  • CRUSTACEOS DECAPODOS DEL PACÍFICO COLOMBIANO: LISTA DE ESPECIES Y CONSIDERACIONES ZOOGEOGRAFICAS

    Rafael Lemaitre;Ricardo Alvarez León

  • Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of generic relationships within the Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassoidea)

    Christopher C. Tudge;Christopher C. Tudge;Gary C. B. Poore;Rafael Lemaitre

  • Revision of the genus Parapagurus (Anomura: Paguroidea: Parapaguridae), including redescriptions of the western Atlantic species

    Rafael Lemaitre

  • Charybdis hellerii (Milne Edwards, 1867), a nonindigenous portunid crab (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) discovered in the Indian River lagoon system of Florida

    Rafael Lemaitre

  • Geographic and depth distributional patterns of western Atlantic Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura), with an updated list of species

    Bernd Werding;Alexandra Hiller;Rafael Lemaitre

  • Carcinization in the Anomura – fact or fiction? II. Evidence from larval, megalopal and early juvenile morphology

    Patsy A. McLaughlin;Rafael Lemaitre;Christopher C. Tudge

  • Shallow-water crabs (Decapoda, Brachyura) collected in the southern Caribbean near Cartagena, Colombia

    Rafael Lemaitre

  • Comparative larval development in two species of the burrowing ghost shrimp genus Lepidophthalmus (Decapoda : Callianassidae)

    Sergio F. Nates;Darryl L. Felder;Rafael Lemaitre

  • A review of hermit crabs of the genus Xylopagurus A. Milne Edwards, 1880 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Paguridae), with description of two new species

    Rafael Lemaitre

  • Two new species of the Phimochirus holthuisi complex from the Gulf of Mexico, supported by morphology, color, and genetics (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae).

    Darryl L. Felder;Rafael Lemaitre;Catherine Craig

  • A new species of Odontozona Holthuis, 1946 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea: Stenopodidae) from the Caribbean Sea

    María M. Criales;Rafael Lemaitre

  • New and rare micro-pagurid hermit crabs (Crustacea: Anomura: Paguridae) from the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico.

    Rafael Lemaitre

  • 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

    Gabriel E. Ramos-Tafur;Rafael Lemaitre

  • 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)

    Darryl L. Felder;Rafael Lemaitre

  • 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)

    Mariana Negri;Rafael Lemaitre;Fernando L. Mantelatto

  • DECAPOD CRUSTACEANS FROM CAY SAL BANK, BAHAMAS, WITH NOTES ON THEIR ZOOGEOGRAPHIC AFFINITIES

    Rafael Lemaitre

  • Sergio , a new genus of ghost shrimp from the Americas (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae)

    Raymond B. Manning;Rafael Lemaitre

  • Lepidophthalmus sinuensis : A new species of ghost shrimp (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassidae) of importance to the commercial culture of penaeid shrimps on the Caribbean coast of Colombia, with observations on its ecology

    Rafael Lemaitre;S. de

  • ON STABILISING THE NAMES OF THE INFRAORDERS OF THALASSINIDEAN SHRIMPS, AXIIDEA DE SAINT LAURENT, 1979 AND GEBIIDEA DE SAINT LAURENT, 1979 (DECAPODA)

    Gary C. B. Poore;Shane T. Ahyong;Shane T. Ahyong;Heather D. Bracken-Grissom;Tin-Yam Chan

  • Crustacea Decapoda: A review of the species of the genus Parapagurus Smith, 1879 (Parapaguridae) from the Pacific and Indian Oceans

    R. Lemaitre

Frequent Co-Authors

Darryl L. Felder
Darryl L. Felder University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum
Marcos Tavares
Marcos Tavares Universidade de São Paulo
Peter K. L. Ng
Peter K. L. Ng National University of Singapore
Tin-Yam Chan
Tin-Yam Chan National Taiwan Ocean University
Keith A. Crandall
Keith A. Crandall George Washington University
Enrique Macpherson
Enrique Macpherson Spanish National Research Council
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

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