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Overview

Sammy De Grave is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research is primarily situated within Environmental Science, with a focus on several subfields including Ecology, Aquatic Science, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics of their work encompass Crustacean biology and ecology, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and fisheries research, Fish biology, ecology, and behavior, and Fish Ecology and Management Studies.

Among their recent published papers are the following:

  • "One-quarter of freshwater fauna threatened with extinction," 2025, Nature
  • "Benchmarking global biodiversity of decapod crustaceans (Crustacea: Decapoda)," 2023, Journal of Crustacean Biology
  • "Evolution of protective symbiosis in palaemonid shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) with emphases on host spectrum and morphological adaptations," 2021, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
  • "Distinct suites of pre- and post-adaptations indicate independent evolutionary pathways of snapping claws in the shrimp family Alpheidae (Decapoda: Caridea)," 2021, Evolution
  • "Documenting decapod biodiversity in the Caribbean from DNA barcodes generated during field training in taxonomy," 2020, Biodiversity Data Journal

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers. Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Arthur Anker (11 publications)
  • Jin-Ho Park (7 publications)
  • Ling Ming Tsang (5 publications)
  • Manal Al-Kandari (5 publications)
  • Tin-Yam Chan (4 publications)

Sammy De Grave has published extensively across several scientific journals. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Zootaxa (9 publications)
  • Crustaceana (8 publications)
  • Journal of Crustacean Biology (4 publications)
  • Arthropoda (3 publications)
  • Biodiversity Data Journal (2 publications)

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

  • An updated classification of the freshwater crayfishes (Decapoda: Astacidea) of the world, with a complete species list

    Keith A Crandall;Sammy De Grave

  • Mitochondrial DNA and Decapod Phylogenies: The Importance of 47 Pseudogenes and Primer Optimization

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

  • Dead Shrimp Blues: A Global Assessment of Extinction Risk in Freshwater Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea)

    Sammy De Grave;Kevin G. Smith;Nils A. Adeler;Dave J. Allen

  • The establishment of the Oriental River Prawn, Macrobrachium nipponense (de Haan, 1849) in Anzali Lagoon, Iran

    Sammy De Grave;Ahmad Ghane

  • Multiple host switching events shape the evolution of symbiotic palaemonid shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda)

    Ivona Horká;Ivona Horká;Sammy De Grave;Charles H. J. M. Fransen;Adam Petrusek

  • Phylogenetic position, systematic status, and divergence time of the Procarididea (Crustacea: Decapoda)

    Heather D. Bracken;Sammy De Grave;Alicia Toon;Darryl L. Felder

  • Molecular systematics of caridean shrimps based on five nuclear genes: Implications for superfamily classification

    Chi Pang Li;Sammy De Grave;Tin-Yam Chan;Ho Chee Lei

  • Unweaving hippolytoid systematics (Crustacea, Decapoda, Hippolytidae): resurrection of several families

    Sammy De Grave;Chi Pang Li;Ling Ming Tsang;Ka Hou Chu

  • Regional scale speciation reveals multiple invasions of freshwater in Palaemoninae (Decapoda)

    Christopher W. Ashelby;Timothy J. Page;Sammy De Grave;Jane M. Hughes

  • Biogeography of Indo-Pacific Pontoniinae (Crustacea, Decapoda): a PAE analysis

    Sammy De Grave

  • A re-appraisal of the systematic status of selected genera in Palaemoninae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae).

    Sammy De Grave;Christopher W. Ashelby

  • Symbioses of decapod crustaceans along the coast of Espírito Santo, Brazil

    Peter Wirtz;Gustavo de Melo;Sammy de Grave

  • Let's be pals again: major systematic changes in Palaemonidae (Crustacea: Decapoda)

    Sammy De Grave;Charles H.J.M. Fransen;Timothy J. Page

  • On the systematic status of Isopericlimenaeus Marin, 2012 and its type species, Periclimenaeus gorgonidarum (Balss, 1913) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Palaemonidae).

    Jin-Ho Park;Sammy De Grave;Won Kim

  • On two species of the alpheid shrimp genus Salmoneus Holthuis, 1955 from Kuwait, one of them new to science (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Caridea)

    Arthur Anker;Manal Al-Kandari;Sammy De Grave

  • A new groundwater-dwelling species of Euryrhynchina from Cameroon (Malacostraca, Decapoda, Euryrhynchidae).

    Sammy De Grave;Christophe Piscart;Raoul P. Tuekam Kayo;Arthur Anker

  • A new species of Alpheus (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae) from the Arabian Sea, Kerala, India.

    Sammy De Grave;Apsara S Krishnan;Anil Kumar K P;Magdalini Christodoulou

  • The discovery of Euryrhynchidae (Crustacea: Decapoda) in India, with the description of a new genus and species

    Sammy de Grave;Charambilly Purushothaman Arjun;Rajeev Raghavan

  • Diet of the squid Loligo forbesi Steenstrup (Cephalopoda: Loliginidae) in Irish waters

    M. A. Collins;S. De Grave;C. Lordan;G. M. Burnell

  • A new, distinctly coloured species of Lysmata Risso, 1816 (Malacostraca: Decapoda: Lysmatidae) from the south-central Atlantic.

    Sammy De Grave;Arthur Anker

  • Faunal relationships with seagrass habitat structure: a case study using shrimp from the Indo-Pacific

    Richard K. F. Unsworth;Sammy De Grave;Jamaluddin Jompa;David J. Smith

  • The global invader Palaemon macrodactylus (Decapoda, Palaemonidae): an interrogation of records and a synthesis of data

    Magnus L. Johnson;Sammy De Grave;Christopher W. Ashelby

  • An annotated checklist of marine caridean and stenopodidean shrimps (Malacostraca: Decapoda) of the Caribbean coast of Panama

    Sammy De Grave;Arthur Anker;Arthur Anker

  • The macro- and megabenthic fauna on the continental shelf of the eastern Amundsen Sea, Antarctica

    Katrin Linse;Huw J Griffiths;Dave Ka Barnes;Angelika Brandt

  • A New Species of Lysmata (Crustacea, Decapoda, Hippolytidae) from the Pacific Coast of Panama, with Observations of Its Reproductive Biology

    Arthur Anker;Juan Antonio Baeza;Sammy De Grave

  • Synalpheus pinkfloydi sp. nov., a new pistol shrimp from the tropical eastern Pacific (Decapoda: Alpheidae)

    Arthur Anker;Kristin M. Hultgren;Sammy De Grave

  • Phylogenetics reveals the crustacean order Amphionidacea to be larval shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea)

    Sammy De Grave;Tin-Yam Chan;Ka Hou Chu;Chien-Hui Yang

  • Opaepupu, a new genus and species of bivalve-associated shrimp (Decapoda: Caridea: Palaemonidae) from Hawai'i.

    Arthur Anker;Sammy De Grave

  • THE OCCURRENCE OF THE SEMI-TERRESTRIAL SHRIMP MERGUIA OLIGODON (DE MAN, 1888) IN NEOSARMATIUM SMITHI H. MILNE EDWARDS, 1853 BURROWS IN KENYAN MANGROVES

    David Paul Gillikin;Jurgen Tack;Sammy De Grave

Frequent Co-Authors

Tin-Yam Chan
Tin-Yam Chan National Taiwan Ocean University
Ka Hou Chu
Ka Hou Chu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Shane T. Ahyong
Shane T. Ahyong Australian Museum
Peter K. L. Ng
Peter K. L. Ng National University of Singapore
Fernando L. Mantelatto
Fernando L. Mantelatto Universidade de São Paulo
Keith A. Crandall
Keith A. Crandall George Washington University
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas
Farid Dahdouh-Guebas Université Libre de Bruxelles
Darryl L. Felder
Darryl L. Felder University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Rafael Lemaitre
Rafael Lemaitre National Museum of Natural History
David K. A. Barnes
David K. A. Barnes British Antarctic Survey

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