CURRICULUM VITA
Darryl L. Felder
Home address: 200 Ramblewood Drive
Lafayette, LA 70508
University address: Department of Biology
Billeaud Hall, Rm 251
West St. Mary Street
Lafayette, LA 70504 USA
Home phone: (337) 989-8547
Office phone: (337) 482-6753
Office fax: (337) 482-5834 e-mail: dlf4517@louisiana.edu
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: October 21, 1947
Place of Birth: Kingsville, Texas
Married (to Jennifer M. Felder), three children
EDUCATION
B.S., Texas A & I University, Kingsville, Texas (Biology, minor in Chemistry, 1969)
M.S., Texas A & I University, Kingsville, Texas (Biology, minors in Chemistry and
Geology, 1971), A.H. Chaney (deceased), Advisor
Ph.D., Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (Zoology & Physiology, minors in Marine Sciences and Geology, 1975), J. P. Woodring, Advisor
RESEARCH INTERESTS
I. Population Genetics, Ecology, Systematics, Biogeography and Conservation
Management of Decapod Crustaceans:
A. Continuing studies toward monographic treatments of Gulf of Mexico decapod Crustacea (work toward books on crabs, lobsters and shrimps of the Gulf of Mexico).
B. Biodiversity, molecular phylogenetics, taxonomy, and functional morphology (particularly within the Thalassinoidea, Alpheoidea and
Brachyura).
C. Importance of diversity assessment for environmental management
II. Hard Substrate Invertebrate Communities of the Gulf of Mexico, Natural and
Artificial

A. Community structure, diversity, population genetics, and origins
B. Effects of stress, and impacts of surrounding sediments
C. Recruitment, settlement, growth, endemism, and non-endemics
III. Physioecological Adaptation and Environmental Biology of Marine Decapod
Crustaceans:
A. Osmotic, ionic and respiratory adaptations of aquatic and semiterrestrial crustaceans as related to habitat, development and phylogeny.
B. Adaptations of burrowing and epifaunal crustaceans; relation to hypoxia; biogenic modification of substrates; contaminant and nutrient effects.
C. Digestive system adaptations; histology, ultrastructure and histochemistry of gut tissues.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1969-1971 Research Fellow of Caesar-Kleberg Foundation, Texas A & I University,
Master's Research: Ecological Study of Sublittoral Reefs.
1973-1980 Cooperating Scientist, Cruises of the NOAA, National Marine Fisheries
Service, R/V OREGON II: Northern Gulf of Mexico Faunal Surveys (Crustaceans of Groundfish Areas), 1973-80; on board participant, Cruise 48; FLA to LA--
November 1973. Dry Tortugas study, Florida Department of Natural Resources,
R/V HERNAN CORTEZ: Florida Straits decapod crustacean studies--July-Aug.
1982.
1975-1979 Assistant Professor of Biology, University of Southwestern Louisiana,
Lafayette, Louisiana
1978-1979 Director, Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) Planning
Office for design of a marine research laboratory and vessels for coastal Louisiana
1979-1985 Associate Professor of Biology, University of Southwestern Louisiana,
Lafayette, Louisiana
1979-1995 Commissioned member (and Officer) of Louisiana Universities Marine
Consortium Council--also served four terms as Council Chairman
1983-present Expedition Scientist/Cruise leader: Bahamas--collaborator with Carnegie
Institute and the Bahamas National Trust for systematic and ecological studies of marine invertebrates on Little Inagua and Great Inagua Islands, Spring, 1976.
Belize--collaborator with Smithsonian Institution in studies of coral reef decapods of Carrie Bow Cay Lab, April-May 1983; Florida--Infaunal decapods, Indian
River Florida, and vicinity, May 1983 to present, 15 trips. Caribbean coast of
Colombia, infaunal decapod studies, Sept. 1990 to 2002, 5 trips. Costa Rica--Isla del Coco, National Geographic Society Expedition, Feb. 1994. Cuba--Joint
Cuban-American Expedition to Isle of Pines, Center for Marine Conservation,
June 1995; NSF/DOE funded cruises, Gulf of Mexico, chief scientist, 7 cruises
1999-2008.
1985-present co-director, UL Laboratory for Crustacean Research
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1986-present Professor Biology Department, University of Louisiana, Lafayette,
Louisiana (department head 1986 - Jan 2009)
1989-1995 Chair-UL Research Park Programs Development Subcommittee
1995-present Associate Research Scientist, Department of Invertebrate Zoology, National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
ACADEMIC HONORS AND AWARDS
Caesar-Kleberg Foundation Fellowship--Texas A & I University. 1969-1971. Stipend and travel during master's research.
Bogusch Memorial Scholarship Award--Texas A & I University. 1971, Merit award for scholarship in graduate research.
Graduate Summer Research Award--Louisiana State University. Summer 1972. Merit award for dissertation research.
USL Foundation Distinguished Professorship, appointed with cash award. April 1982.
Special Citation, state of Louisiana, Board of Regents, for distinguished biology program leadership, May, 1990.
Elected AAAS Fellow by Council for the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, October, 2002.
Career Research Excellence Award, Brazilian Society of Carcinologists, October, 2004
(formal presentation at banquet of "3rd Brazilian Crustacean Congress and 2004 meeting of The Crustacean Society," Florianopolis, Brazil.
Professional Achievement Award (in Crustacean Biology), Instituto de Biología,
Universidad National Autonoma de Mexico, October 2006 (formal presentation at opening session of "Reunión Alejandro Villalobos V" in Mexico City.
Career “ Excellence in Research Award ” voted by the executive board of The
Crustacean Society international, September 2009 (formal presentation at the closing banquet of the societies annual meeting in Tokyo, Japan.
Honorary patronyms: Fabia felderi Gore, 1986 (pinnotherid crab), Dicranodromia felderi Martin, 1990 (dromiacean crab), Upogebia felderi Williams, 1993 (mud shrimp), Opalia felderi Garcia, 2004 (gastropod), Rynkatorpa felderi Pawson and
Vance, 2005 (holothurian), Gymnobella felderi Garcia, 2005 (gastropod),
Leptalpheus felderi Anker, Caripe and Lira, 2006 (caridean shrimp),
Chaetoderma felderi Ivanov and Scheltema, 2007 (aplacophoran mollusk), genus
Darrylia Garcia, 2008 (marine gastropod).
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
The American Association for the Advancement of Science
The American Microscopical Society
American Society of Limnologists and Oceanographers
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology
The Estuarine Research Federation
Biological Society of Washington
The Crustacean Society (Founding Member)
Gulf Estuarine Research Society
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Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society
Sociedade Brasileira de Carcinologia
The Carcinological Society of Japan
The American Society for Zoological Nomenclature
The Divers Alert Network, DAN (safety network for divers)
The National Geographic Society
The Latin American Association of Carcinologists
OFFICES HELD
Program Chairman, Gulf Estuarine Research Society, 1976.
President, Gulf Estuarine Research Society, 1979-80.
Governing Board Member, The Estuarine Research Federation (international), 1978-
1981. Program committee 1983-1986. Ad hoc Committee on the National
Coastal Resources Center, 1985-1986.
Founding Member, The Crustacean Society (international society for crustacean research), 1979-1981.
Governing Board Member, The Crustacean Society, 1979 to present.
President-elect, The Crustacean Society, 1985-1987.
President, The Crustacean Society, 1987-1989.
Past-president, The Crustacean Society, 1990-1992.
Co-Chair, Meeting Committee, The Crustacean Society, 1994-95.
Local arrangements chairman, 1999 Lafayette Meeting, The Crustacean Society
(international) (1997 to 1999)
Member, Scientific Steering Committee of the “7th Colloquium Crustacea
Decapoda Mediterranea” Lisbon, Portugal, September 1999; and the “8th
Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea” Korfu, Greece, September 2002
Member, Scientific Committee for “Invasive Crustaceans and Biogeography,” Fourth
International Crustacean Congress, Amsterdam, July 1998.
Member, Cypress Island Advisory Committee, The Nature Conservancy (1993 to present)
Member, ERCLA (Environmental Research Consortium of Louisiana) (1996 to present)
(also see LUMCON Council & LERC-TAC below)
EDITORSHIPS, REVIEWERSHIPS AND PANEL MEMBERSHIPS
Associate Editor, the Journal of Crustacean Biology (international journal for crustacean research), December 1981-December 1984.
Publications Committee Member, The Estuarine Research Federation; management of publishing Proceedings of the Biennial International Estuarine Research
Conferences and the journal Estuaries , 1980-85.
Regular Reviewer of selected manuscripts for editors of the following:
Journal of Crustacean Biology, Biological Bulletin, Journal of the Marine
Biological Association of the United Kingdom, Contributions in Marine Science,
Crustacean Research (Japan), Estuaries, Gulf Research Reports, Northeast Gulf
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Science, Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington, Journal
Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, Bulletin of Marine Science, Natural
History (and others)
Member, LUMCON Council (4 terms as chair), 1979-1995.
Member, Academic Oversight Committee and Research Awards Panel, Smithsonian
Marine Laboratory, Ft. Pierce, Florida, 1991-present
Member, Smithsonian Institution, NMNH, outside search and promotion review panels,
1992-1993.
Member, NSF Systematic Biology PEET Panel, March 1995.
Member and Chair, EPA Technical Advisory Committee (TAC), Louisiana
Environmental Research Center (LERC), McNeese State University, Lake
Charles, LA, 1995-2005.
Associate Editor, Gulf and Caribbean Research , 1999-2005
Associate Editor, Southeastern Naturalist , 2000-present
Member, Marine Programs External Review Panel, Smithsonian Institution National
Museum of Natural History, 2005-2006.
Member, NSF-DEB BS&I Panel, October 2005
Series Co-Editor and Coordinating Board (with John Wesley Tunnell and Sylvia Earle) of
TAMU Press seven volume book series: "Gulf of Mexico: Its Origins, Waters,
Biota, Human Impacts and Management" 2005-Present
Volume Co-Editor (with David Camp) "Biota" volume in above set (139 contributing authors)
Research Program Planning Group, Harte Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas
A&M University, Corpus Christi, 2007-present.
GRANTS, FUNDED INITIATIVES, AND RESEARCH SUPPORT
Faculty Research Grants 449-I-70 and 449-6-71--Texas A & I University (in collaboration with A.H. Chaney), 1970-71. Equipment and stipends during master's research.
Graduate School Travel Grant--Louisiana State University. 1973-74. Travel and equipment expenses related to R/V Oregon II Cruise #48 and work at the National
Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. USL Foundation Research
Grant, 1977. Travel and equipment for tropical field studies on Little Inagua,
Bahamas.
USL Foundation Research Grants, 1977 and 1978. Travel and supply funds to partially defray costs of USL Tropical Field Expeditions I-B (Dec. 76-Jan.77), II-B (Dec.
77 - Jan. 78), MP-III-B (Jun. - Jul. 78); S-VI-B (Aug. 79), IV-B (Feb. 1980, and
V-B (May-June 1982) for studies on Mexican coasts of southwestern Gulf of
Mexico.
Louisiana Universities Marine Consortium (LUMCON) capital outlay ($16,200,000) and
1980 operating budget ($400,000) approved by Legislature, State of Louisiana
1979. For construction of coastal marine laboratory and research vessels; operation of existing facilities (coordinated statewide planning and authored
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proposals in collaboration with the Louisiana Board of Regents Staff; fully funded
July, 1982.
Louisiana University Marine Consortium Planning Grant (State of Louisiana) $16,700,
1978-79.
NOAA-NMDA, Decapod crustaceans in the Looe Key National Marine Sanctuary,
$20,000, 1983-86.
Smithsonian Fluid Research Funds. "SWAMP" project, Carrie Bow Cay Belize. Travel, lodging and field supplies for work on decapods of Carrie Bow Cay, Belize.
$1,200, April-May 1983; $4,200 October 2002.
USL Faculty Research Grant. Development of improved decapod larval rearing facilities. $1,000. 1983-84.
Smithsonian Fluid Research funds. Ft. Pierce Laboratory, Studies of Infaunal Decapods
Indian River Travel, lodging, field supplies, Ft. Pierce, Linkport, Florida, $600-
1200/year 1984-89; $2000/year 1990-present.
NSF, International symposium on cave crustaceans, $11,864, 1984.
McIlhenny Coypu Foundation, Environmental and Evolutionary Studies of Crabs and
Lobsters of the Gulf of Mexico, $17,800, 1987-90.
NOAA Sea Grant, Ontogenetic changes in digestive enzymes of shrimp, $45,127, 1985-
87.
McIlhenny Coypu Foundation, Environmental and Evolutionary Studies of Crabs and
Lobsters of the Gulf of Mexico, $12,700, 1987-90.
NOAA R/CFB-5 (supplement) Sea Grant, Ontogenetic changes in the digestive enzymes and gut functions of penaeid shrimp, $5,000. 1987-88
BOR [LASER], Comparative studies of development in genetically divergent populations of coastal invertebrates, $516,155, 1987-91
BOR [LASER], a plan to stimulate competitive research in ultrastructure (with 4 Co-PIs),
$619,000, 1987-91.
BOR LEQSF Enhancement Component, Enhancement of Wet-laboratory Culture and
Experimental Facilities for Expansion of Research Programs in Aquatic Biology
(with one co-PI), $73,042, 1988-89.
BOR LEQSF Enhancement Component, Enhancement of the Preparative and Analytical
Facilities in the Department of Biology (one of 14 co-PI's), $146,761, 1988-89.
NSF-EPSCOR Grant, National Science Foundation, Comparative studies of development in genetically divergent populations of coastal invertebrates (with 6 co-PI's),
$44,800, 1989-90.
NSF-EPSCOR Grant, National Science Foundation, A plan to stimulate competitive research in ultrastructure (with 8 co-PI's), $40,000, 1989-90.
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, University proposal to U.S. Congress for establishment of
USL Research Park facilities of The National Wetlands Research Center,
$12,800,000. 1989-present (funded, construction, completed).
US Minerals Management Service, Effects of Shoreline and Shallow Habitat Loss on
Dominant Marine Invertebrate Assemblages, $69,000, 1989-92.
NOAA-National Marine Fisheries Service, University proposal to US Congress for establishment of USL Research Park facilities for the NMFS Estuarine Habitats and Coastal Fisheries Research Center, $10,400,000. 1991-present (funded first
$1,200,000 for design and first $6,250,000 for construction, in progress).
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LEQSF Enhancement component, Louisiana Board of Regents. "Establishment of a
Nucleic Acids Analysis Facility to Enhance the Incorporation of Molecular
Biology in Research and Training Programs." Neigel, J.E., C. Chlan and D.L.
Felder, $90,000 (funded June, 1991).
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Benthic Invertebrates in Diets of Migratory Birds"
$24,710 (funded June 1991).
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "Post-hurricane Studies of Benthic Invertebrate
Populations in Coastal Louisiana" $59,996 (funded May 1993).
National Geographic Society. "Systematics, biogeography and photodocumentation of the decapod crustacean assemblage of Isla del Coco, Costa Rica." (one of 3 co-
PI's with J.W. Martin). $28,000 (funded September 1993).
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (NWRC)/U.S. Department of Energy FCCSET 1993
"Summer Teacher Enhancement Institute" (one of 3 co-PIs) $243,695 (funded
February 1993).
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (NWRC)/U.S. Department of Energy FCCSET 1994-96
"Summer Enhancement Institute for High School Science Teachers" (one of 3 co-
PIs) $748,500 (funded February 1994).
Smithsonian Institution Special Projects Office. "Evolution and Adaptation of Infaunal
Thalassinid Crustaceans in the Indian River Lagoon System of Florida" $20,000 for 1993-99 (funded fall 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999).
LEQSF Enhancement components, Louisiana Board of Regents. "Enhancement of
Research and Teaching in Environmental Science at a New USL Environmental
Research Facility" (one of 7 co-PI's) $75,000 (funded June 1995).
Sea Grant College Program. "Development of DNA-Based Assays for Plankton
Sampling." (co-PI with J.E. Neigel) $100,250 for Feb. 1996-Jan 1998 (submitted
November, 1994; funded fall 1995).
U.S. EPA. "Potentially Endangered Marine Invertebrates-Gulf of Mexico." $5,000 for
April-June 1996 (funded Jan. 1996).
DOE-EETAP Program (U.S. Department of Energy). “Modern Baselines for Assessment of Global and Regional Impacts ... Fossil Fuels ... Characterization of Endemized
Assemblages” (PI/PD, with J. Neigel, S. Fredericq and N. Rabalais as co-PI’s),
$1,477,128 for July 1997 -- September 2002 (funded May 1997).
U.S. EPA. “Non-indigenous Coastal and Marine Invertebrates of the Gulf of Mexico;
Database Construction in Collaboration with the University of Southern
Mississippi and the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, MS”
(collaborating as co-PI with Dr. Stuart Poss), $20,000 for January-June, 1998
(funded Oct. 1997).
USGS/US-AID. “Assessing Post-hurricane Recovery in Estuarine Benthic Processes,
Gulf of Fonseca, Nicaragua,” $83,100 for December 1999-December 2001
(funded Nov. 1999).
NSF-Biotic Systems and Resources. “Supplemental Funding for Studies of Endemism in
Caribbean Decapod Crustaceans” (funded via LA County Museum, as collaborator with T. Zimmerman and J. Martin), $15,800 for January-December,
2001.
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LA-BOR/DEFE Program. “Enhancement of Distinguished Faculty in the Environmental
Sciences, Integrative Biology and Biodiversity,” $123,000 annually, beginning in
2000, continued indefinitely.
Smithsonian Institution Carrie Bow Cay Research Program (Belize) “Studies of Decapod
Crustacean Systematics, Biodiversity and Development”, $6,000. September
2002-August 2007.
USGS-Tampa Bay Project, years 1-4. "Impacts of Dominant Infaunal Bioturbators on
Porewaters and Sedimentary Processes" PI/PD, with co-PIs P. Klerks and K.
Strasser. $157,000. June 2001- December 2006.
Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, 2 years. "Gulf of Mexico
Biodiversity" PI/PD $33,900. March 2003-December 2004.
NSF-Biotic Systems and Resources. “Deep Bank Assemblages of Algae and
Decapod Crustaceans in the Gulf of Mexico” Co-PI with S. Fredericq.
$492,306. July 2003-June 2006.
NSF-DEB - Systematic Biology and Biodiv. Inv. Clusters (continued) "RUI/ROA supplement: Molecular Phylogeny of the Clawed Lobsters, Family Nephropidae" w/ D. Tshudy (visiting scientist from Edinboro University). $11,371. September-
December, 2004.
Freeport McMoRan/Ecology & Environment Inc - "Assessment of Main Pass Energy
Hub Impacts" $126,200, Submitted May 2005, Funded June 2005, term through
May 2006 (co-PI with P. Klerks)
NSF-DEB - Systematic Biology - Tree of Life Program. "Phylogenetics of World
Decapod Crustacea" $572,000. September 2005 - August 2010.
Sea Grant College Program (University of Rhode Island component: New England
Lobster Research, Disease Initiative). "Characterization and Biogeographic
Survey of Shell Disease in Aquatic Arthropods" $134,240. January 2007 - April
2009 (co-PI with A. Chistoserdov and two other investigators; UL component of overall funds (ca $250K) is subcontracted to us via University of Rhode Island).
NSF (Systematic Biology and Biodiversity Inventories) Symposium Support Grant
“Phylogeny of the Decapod Crustacea” for support of an international assemblage of crustacean evolutionary biologists at the January 2008 meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology in San Antonio, Texas.
$40,000 funded [with J. W. Martin and K. Crandall]
NSF-DEB – RAPID Program. “Impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill on the diversity of macroalgae and macrocrustaceans inhabiting deepwater hard banks in the NW, NE and SE Gulf of Mexico” $185,608 [plus additional $90K in vessel time from UNOLS]. July 2010 – August 2011 (co-PI with Suzanne Fredericq)
PRESENTED PAPERS AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
Decapod Crustaceans of 7 1/2 Fathom Reef, Texas; annual meeting of the American
Society of Zoologists, Houston, Texas (with published abstract, American
Zoologist 13(4): 1338), 1973.
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Seasonal Aspects of Reproduction in Snapping Shrimps of the genus Synalpheus
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae); invited paper delivered at the SYMPOSIUM
ON SOUTH TEXAS FAUNA, Kingsville, Texas, 1977.
A Proposal for Formation of a Crustacean Research Society; annual meeting of the
American Society of Zoologists, Tampa, Florida (presently jointly with four collaborators), 1979.
Documentation of Color in Reptant Decapods, and Applications to Taxonomic Problems in the Gulf of Mexico; invited paper delivered at the INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON THE BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF CRUSTACEA,
The Australian Museum, Sydney, Australia (with published abstract). 1980.
New Approaches to the Problematic Taxonomy of Estuarine Fiddler Crabs in the Gulf of
Mexico; annual meeting of the Gulf Estuarine Research Society, Pensacola,
Florida (with GERS Newsletter ), 1980. (with R.W. Heard III).
Morphology and Ontogeny of Juvenile Stages of some common Gulf Coast Xanthid
Crabs; annual meeting of The Crustacean Society and American Society of
Zoologists, Seattle, Washington (with published abstract, American Zoologist
20(4): 843), 1980. (with J.W. Martin).
Ecological and Evolutionary Implications of Coloration in Gulf Decapod Crustacea; invited paper presented at the University of Texas MARINE SCIENCE
INSTITUTE SEMINAR SERIES, Port Aransas, Texas, 1981.
Studies of Coloration in Decapod Crustacea of the Gulf of Mexico; invited paper presented at the SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SEMINAR SERIES;
Washington, D.C., 1981.
An Expedient Technique for Isolation, Fixation, Quantitative Analysis of Gut Contents of
Small Macrocrustaceans, annual meeting of the Gulf Estuarine Research Society,
Hattiesburg, Mississippi (with published abstract, GERS Newsletter 8(1) suppl.),
1981. (with R.J. Bouchon).
Sampling Technique for Gulf Coast Epifaunal Communities, annual meeting of the Gulf
Coast Estuarine Research Society, Hattiesburg, Mississippi (with published abstract, GERS Newsletter 8(1) Suppl.), 1981. (with R.J. Bouchon).
Marine Crustaceans in a Texas Salt Spring: Relicts or Introductions? annual meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, Dallas, Texas (with published abstract,
American Zoologist , 21(4): 934), 1981. (with H. Spivey).
Re-assessment of a Dactylar Locking Mechanism in Brachyuran Crustacea, annual
Meeting of The Crustacean Society and The American Society of Zoologists,
Louisville, Kentucky (with published abstract, American Zoologist , 22(4): 911.
1982. (with M.M. Matthews).
Warm-temperate to Tropical Transitions in Selected Decapod Crustacean Assemblages of the Gulf of Mexico, ASB Meeting, Lafayette Louisiana (with published abstract,
ASB Bulletin 30(2): 55). 1983.
A Comparison of Larval and Postlarval Development in the mordax - Group of Uca from the Northern Gulf of Mexico, ASB meeting, Lafayette, Louisiana (with published abstract, ASB Bulletin 30(2): 56). 1983. (with M.F. Flynn).
Phylogenetic Distribution and Variation of a Dactylar Locking Mechanism Within
Brachyuran Crustacea, ASB meeting, Lafayette, Louisiana (with published abstract, ASB Bulletin 30(20: 69). 1983. (with M.M. Matthews).
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Bathymetric Distribution of Color in Decapod Crustaceans; invited paper presented in the
BIOLOGY SEMINAR SERIES University of Southern Mississippi, Hattiesburg,
MS. 1983.
Biogeographic transitions in brachyuran crab assemblages of the southwestern Gulf of
Mexico and Yucatan Peninsula; invited paper presented at the international conference on BIOGEOGRAPHY OF CENTRAL AMERICA, Merida, Mexico
(with published abstract). September 1984. (with J.M. Felder).
Larval ontogeny of osmoregulation in the ontogeny of the thalassinid ghost shrimp
Callianassa jamaicense ; annual meeting of The Crustacean Society and the
American Society of Zoologists, December 1984, Denver Colorado (with published abstract, American Zoologist 24(3): 67A). (with J.M. Felder and S.C.
Hand).
Relative growth and sexual maturation in the estuarine ghost shrimp Callianassa jamaicense Schmitt; annual meeting of The Crustacean Society and the American
Society of Zoologists, December, 1984, Denver, Colorado (with published abstract, American Zoologist 24(3): 74A). (with D.L. Lovett).
A shelf assemblage of xanthoid crabs in the northern Gulf of Mexico; invited paper presented at the symposium to honor F.A. Chace, Jr., ASZ meetings, Baltimore
(with published abstract, American Zoologist 25(4): 126A). 1985. (with N.N.
Rabalais).
Two new commensal alpheid shrimps form south Florida, invited paper presented at The
Crustacean Society symposium to honor F.A. Chace, Jr., ASZ meetings,
December, 1985, Baltimore (with published abstract, American Zoologist 25(4):
125A). 1985. (with R.B. Manning).
Population Adaptations: The Legacy of Origins in Coastal Marine Crabs Assemblages of the Northern Gulf of Mexico; invited colloquium presentation , Dauphin Island
Sea Lab, Dauphin Is., Alabama. July, 1985.
Reproduction and Habitat in Stomatopods, with notes on use of empty urchin shells as brooding sites by gonodactylids in Belize; invited paper presented at the First
International Workshop on Stomatopod Biology, Trieste, Italy (with published abstract in proceedings). 1985. (with M.L. Reaka and R.B. Manning).
Ontogeny of the gut in Penaeus setiferus ; annual meeting of The Crustacean Society and the American Society of Zoologists, December, 1985, Baltimore (with published abstract, American Zoologist 25(4): 36A).
Systematics of stone crabs, genus Menippe ; invited paper for The Stone Crab
Symposium, St. Petersburg, Florida (with published abstract in proceedings).
1986. (with A.B. Williams).
Histology of the posterior midgut caecum in Callianassa jamicense var. December, 1986.
Annual meeting of The Crustacean Society and the American Society of
Zoologists, Nashville (with published abstract, American Zoologist 26(4): 34A).
(with B.E. Felgenhauer).
Ontogeny of gut function in Penaeus setiferus . December, 1986. Annual meeting of The
Crustacean Society and the American Society of Zoologists, Nashville (with published abstract, American Zoologist 26(4): 34A). (with D.L. Lovett).
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Ontogenetic changes in digestive enzyme activity in larval and early postlarval penaeid shrimp; fall meeting of American Physiological Society, September 1987, San
Diego (with published abstract, The Physiologist ). (with D.L. Lovett).
Maturation, reproduction, and early development in the estuarine ghost shrimp
Callianassa jamaicense var. louisianensis Schmitt; biennial meeting of the
Estuarine Research Federation, October, 1987, New Orleans, LA. (with D.L.
Lovett).
Developmental changes of the digestive tract in estuarine dependent stages of Penaeid shrimp; biennial meeting of the Estuarine Research Federation, October, 1987,
New Orleans, LA. (with D.L. Lovett).
The pinnotherid crab Pinnixa cristata Rathbun and related species from the southern
United States. Annual meeting of The Crustacean Society and The American
Society of Zoologists, December, 1987, New Orleans (with published abstract,
American Zoologist 27(4): 141A). (with R.B. Manning).
Osmoregulatory capacity and development in divergent species and populations of the stone crab genus Menippe . Annual meeting of The Crustacean Society and The
American Society of Zoologists, December, 1987, New Orleans (with published abstract, American Zoologist 27(4): 142A). (with N.N. Rabalais, D.W. Foltz and
F.M. Truesdale).
Gut ultrastructure and enzyme localization in developmental stages of Penaeus setiferus .
Annual meeting of The Crustacean Society and The American Society of
Zoologists, December, 1987, New Orleans (with published abstract, American
Zoologist 27(4): 34A). (with D.L. Lovett).
Genetic differences between three species of thalassinid shrimp from Louisiana. Annual
Meeting of The American Society of Zoologists, December 26-30, 1988, San
Francisco (with published abstract, American Zoologist 28(4):125A). (with J.L.
Staton and D.W. Foltz).
The effects of salinity and temperature on the early stages of stone crabs, Menippe spp.
Annual meeting of the American Society of Zoologists, December 26-30, 1988,
San Francisco (with published abstract, American Zoologist 28(4):64A). (with
N.N. Rabalais, F.M. Truesdale, and C.J. Field).
The river plume and coastal organism distributions: Paleoenvironmental determinants and modern populations. Invited paper in: "Symposium on Land-Margin processes in the northern Gulf of Mexico", January 11-13, 1989, Cocodrie,
Louisiana. (with M.S. Zavada).
Genetic differences among three species of callianassid shrimp from Louisiana, April 6-
8, 1989, Annual meeting of the Gulf Estuarine Research Society, Cocodrie,
Louisiana. (with J.L. Staton and D.W. Foltz).
Estuarine adaptation in northern Gulf decapod crustaceans: Evolutionary constraints and larval physiology. April 28, 1989 . Invited Seminar presentation , Department of
Biological Sciences, University of Alabama, Birmingham.
Paraffin profiling for SEM. A tool for study of invertebrate anatomy. Louisiana Society for Electron Microscopy, Biloxi, Mississippi. October 1989. (with B.E.
Felgenhauer).
Comparative studies of the digestive tract in thalassinoid crustaceans. Invited paper in the symposium, "Biology of the Thalassinoidea." December, 1989. American
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Society of Zoologists and The Crustacean Society, Boston. (with B.E.
Felgenhauer).
A re-evaluation of western Atlantic callianassid genera. Invited paper in the symposium,
"Biology of the Thalassinoidea." December, 1989. American Society of
Zoologists and The Crustacean Society, Boston. (with R.B. Manning).
Genetic divergence in callianassid populations of the Gulf of Mexico and southeastern
U.S. Atlantic coast. Invited paper in the symposium, "Biology of the
Thalassinoidea." December, 1989. American Society of Zoologists and The
Crustacean Society, Boston. (with J.L. Staton).
Genetic structure in western Atlantic crustaceans: Biogeographic diversity in disjunct populations of Callichirus major, Sesarma reticulatum , and Uca minax . July,
1990. Fourth International Congress of Systematics and Evolutionary Biology,
College Park, Maryland. (with J.L. Staton).
Lepidophthalmus , a Master of Adaptation to the Mudflat. August, 1990 . Invited colloquium , Dauphin Island Sea Lab, Alabama.
Relationship of Burrow Morphology to Population Structure in the Estuarine Ghost
Shrimp Lepidophthalmus louisianensis (Decapoda, Thalassinoidea). December
1990. American Society of Zoologists and The Crustacean Society, San Antonio,
Texas. (with published abstract, American Zoologist 30 (4): 137A). (with J.L.
Staton).
Reproductive Cycling in a Newly Recognized Species of Sesarma (Decapoda,
Brachyura). December 1990. American Society of Zoologists and The
Crustacean Society, San Antonio, Texas. (with published abstract, American
Zoologist 30 (4): 137A). (with T. Zimmerman).
Ecology and Integumentary Structures of the Remipede Speleonectes tulumensis .
December 1990. American Society of Zoologists and The Crustacean Society,
San Antonio, Texas. (with published abstract, American Zoologist 30 (4): 6A).
(with L.G. Abele and B.E. Felgenhauer).
Status and needs of marine invertebrate collections in developing countries of Meso- and
South America. May 16-18, 1991. Association of Systematics Collections,
Workshop on Biodiversity and Collections, College Station, TX. Invited symposium paper. (with S.A. Rodrigues and R. Lemaitre).
Burrowing and Burrow Morphology of the Intertidal Ghost Shrimps Lepidophthalmus louisianensis and Callichirus islagrande (Decapoda, Thalassinoidea) November,
1991. Estuarine Research Federation Biennial Meetings, San Francisco, CA.
(with R.B. Griffis and J.L. Staton).
Effect of Shoreline and Shallow Habitat Contamination and Loss on Dominant Infaunal
Invertebrates. November, 1991. 12th Annual Minerals Management Service
Gulf of Mexico Region Information Transfer Meeting, New Orleans.
Ecological Effects of the Burrowing Thalassinidean Shrimp, Callichirus islagrande
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Callianassidae) in Densely Populated Beach
Environments. December 1991. American Society of Zoologists and the
Crustacean Society, Atlanta, GA. (with published abstract, American Zoologist
31(5): 90A). (with R.B. Griffis).
Patterns of Endemism in the Ghost Shrimp Genus Lepidophthalmus (Crustacea,
Decapoda, Callianassidae): Evidence from Morphology, Ecology and Allozymes.
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December 1991. American Society of Zoologists and the Crustacean Society,
Atlanta, GA. (with published abstract, American Zoologist 31(5): 101A). (with
J.L. Staton and S. de A. Rodrigues).
Morphological features of the Cephalon in the Remipede Crustacean Speleonectes tulumensis . December, 1991. American Society of Zoologists and the Crustacean
Society, Atlanta, GA. (with published abstract, American Zoologist 31(5): 102A).
(with B.E. Felgenhauer and L.G. Abele).
Ultrastructural features of the cephalon in the remipede Speleonectes tulumensis . June
1992. International Meeting of the Crustacean Society, Charleston, S.C. (with
B.E. Felgenhauer and L.G. Abele).
Congruence of phenotypic and genetic analyses for stone crabs, Menippe mercenaria ,
(Say) from Georgia, USA (Decapoda, Xanthidae). June 1992. International
Meeting of The Crustacean Society, Charleston, S.C. (with A.B. Williams and
J.E. Neigel).
Repetitive DNA Evolution in the Marsh Crab, Sesarma reticulatum . June 1992. Annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Evolution, Berkeley, California. (with W.
Lankford, T. Kim, J. Roberts and J. Neigel).
Evolution and endemism in the estuarine ghost shrimp genus Lepidophthalmus . October
1992. Invited Seminar , Lamar University Biology Department, Beaumont, TX.
Biological Adaptations of the Genus Lepidophthalmus and Significance to Penaeid
Aquaculture. October 1992. Invited Symposium Paper . Conferencia de Biologia del Callianasido Lepidophthalmus :
La Programa de Investigacion ACUANAL/BANCOLDEX, Cartagena, Colombia
(with R. Lemaitre).
Dominance of Benthic Processes and Assemblages in Dense Populations of Burrowing
Estuarine Ghost Shrimp ( Lepidophthalmus spp.) April 1993. Benthic Ecology
Meetings in association with the Gulf Estuarine Research Society, Mobile, AL
(with R.B. Griffis and S.F. Nates).
Bioturbation and Fine Particle Concentration by Estuarine Burrowing Shrimp.
November 1993. Estuarine Research Federation, Hilton Head, S.C. (with R. B.
Griffis) (with published abst. in conference proceedings)
Species-Specific Effects of Burrowing Shrimp on Intertidal Benthic Habitats. December
1993. American Society of Zoologists and The Crustacean Society, Los Angeles,
CA. (with published abstract, American Zoologist 33(5):79A). (with R.B. Griffis).
Hindgut Fungal Symbionts in Ghost Shrimp (Decapoda, Callianassidae) from the Gulf of
Mexico. December, 1993. American Society of Zoologists and The Crustacean
Society, Los Angeles, CA. (with published abstract, American Zoologist
33(5):82A). (with B.E. Felgenhauer).
Effects of Burrowing Estuarine Ghost Shrimp on Penaeid Shrimp Aquaculture. January,
1994. World Aquaculture '94: 25th Conference of the World Mariculture Society,
New Orleans, LA (with published abstract), Proceedings of the World
Mariculture Society , 1994). (with S.F. Nates, R. Lemaitre, R. Griffis, and S. de A.
Rodrigues).
Burrow Distribution and Substrate Preference in Two Salt Marsh Fiddler Crab Species,
Uca spinicarpa and U. longisignalis . April 1994. Gulf Estuarine Research
Society, Beaumont, TX (with E. Mouton).
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Perturbation and Recovery in Hurricane-Impacted Mudshrimp (Thalassinidea:
Callianassidae) Populations of a Barrier Island. April 1994. Gulf Estuarine
Research Society, Beaumont, TX (with R. Griffis, A. Christian, E. Mouton, S.
Nates, and P. Thevenet).
Louisiana's Coastal Mudshrimp: Process-dominance by a Bioturbator of Mud and Sand
Flats. June 1994. Invited Seminar Presentation . LUMCON Marine Laboratory,
Cocodrie, LA.
Divergent Life Histories of Congeneric Coastal "Carolinian" Decapod Populations in the
Northern Gulf of Mexico (with published abstract in meeting proceedings). June
1994. The Crustacean Society Meetings, Darling Marine Center, Walpole, Maine
(with E. Mouton).
Biogeographic Significance of Thalassinidean and Brachyuran Decapod Assemblages on
Isl del Coco, Costa Rica. June 1994. The Crustacean Society Meetings, Darling
Marine Center, Walpole, Maine (with J. W. Martin and A. Dittel).
Invasion and Colonization of Tropical Penaeid Shrimp Farms by Thalassinid Mudshrimp:
The Ecological Scenario and Biogeochemical Consequences. Feb. 1995. 26th
Conference of the World Mariculture Society, Aquaculture '95, San Diego, CA
(with published abstract) Proceedings of the World Mariculture Society, 1995
(with S.F. Nates and D.W. Duhon).
Perturbation and Recovery in Hurricane-Impacted Mudshrimp (Thalassinidea:
Callianassidae) Populations of a Barrier Island. April 1995. Gulf Estuarine
Research Society Annual Meeting, Lafayette, Louisiana (with 5 co-authors).
Burrow Distribution and Substrate Preference in Two Salt Marsh Fiddler Crab Species,
Uca spinicarpa and U. longisignalis . April 1995. Gulf Estuarine Research
Society Annual Meeting, Lafayette, Louisiana (with E.C. Mouton, Jr.).
Potential Impacts of Commercially Exploiting Callichirus (Decapoda, Callianassidae)
Populations in the Gulf of Mexico. May 1995. The Crustacean Society Meetings,
Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Fort Pierce, Florida (with E.C. Mouton,
Jr.).
The Tropical Estuarine Ghost Shrimp Lepidophthalmus sinuensis (Decapoda,
Callianassidae) as a Modulator of Secondary Production in Penaeid Shrimp
Aquaculture Ponds. May 1995. The Crustacean Society Meeting, Harbor Branch
Oceanographic Institution, Fort Pierce, Florida (with S.F. Nates).
Ecological and Biogeographical Implications of Distributions in Mangrove-Associated
Thalassinidean and Alpheoid Fossorial Shrimp (Decapoda). December 1995.
American Society of Zoologists, Washington, D.C. (with R.B. Manning and R.
Lemaitre) (presentation withdrawn, but abstract published).
Coastal Freshwater and Marine Invasions of Nonindigenous Species in the Gulf of
Mexico Region. March 1996. Invited presentation at the "National Forum on
Nonindigenous Species Invasions in U.S. Marine and Fresh Waters," United
States Capitol, Washington, D.C.
Perspectives on Endangered and Threatened Marine Invertebrate Populations in the Gulf of Mexico. April 1996. Invited presentation at the "Workshop on Identification of Potentially Endangered Species in the Gulf of Mexico," Gulf Coast Research
Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Mississippi.
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Biogeographical and Ecological Significance of Distributions in Mangrove-associated
Thalassinidean and Alpheoid Fossorial Shrimp (Decapoda). July 1996. The
Crustacean Society Meeting, Univ. of San Diego, San Diego, California (with
R.B. Manning and R. Lemaitre).
Dominant Effects of Burrowing Thalassinid Crustaceans on Coastal Sedimentary
Processes September, 1996. Invited presentation at the “Colloquium Crustacea
Decapoda Mediterranea”. Florence, Italy (with R.B. Manning).
Gross Anatomical and Ultrastructural Features of the Cephalon in the Remipede
Crustacean Speleonectes tulumensis . December, 1996. Society for Integrative and
Comparative Biology. Albuquerque, NM (with B.E. Felgenhauer).
Gross Anatomical and Ultrastructural Features of the Cephalon in the Remipede
Crustacean Speleonectes tulumensis . May, 1997. The Crustacean Society
Meetings, Mobile, Alabama (with B.E. Felgenhauer and L.G. Abele).
Associations, Adaptations and Diversity in Commensal Alpheoid Shrimp of the Genus
Leptalpheus Williams, 1965. May, 1997. The Crustacean Society Meetings,
Mobile, Alabama (with R.B. Manning).
Settlement Cues in the Gulf of Mexico Population of the Ghost Shrimp Callichirus major
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). May, 1997. The Crustacean Society
Meetings, Mobile, Alabama (with K.M. Strasser).
Relative Growth, Sexual Maturation and Early Life History in the Mudshrimp Genus
Lepidophthalmus (Thalassinidea: Callianassidae). May, 1997. The Crustacean
Society Meetings, Mobile, Alabama (with S. Nates).
A Graphical Approach to Gene-flow Analysis: Linear Regression of Genetic Distance
Across Geographic Range in Five Decapod Species from the Gulf of Mexico.
May, 1997. The Crustacean Society Meetings, Mobile, Alabama (with J.L.
Staton).
An Ultrasensitive Method for Detection of Single Crab Larvae ( Sesarma reticulatum ) using PCR Amplification of Highly Repetitive DNA Sequences. June 1997.
Society for the Study of Evolution, Boulder, Colorado (with L.B. Evans and J.E.
Neigel).
Anatomical Features of the Remipedes Speleonectes tulumensis and Godzillius robustus .
May 1997. The Crustacean Society, Mobile, Alabama (with B.E. Felgenhauer and J. Yager).
Dominant Effects of Burrowing Thalassinid Crustaceans on Coastal Sedimentary
Processes. November 1997. The Center for Advanced Computer Studies, Invited
Seminar, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette.
La Importancia del Camerón Fantasma Lepidophthalmus en el Cultivo del Camarones
Penaeidos. April 1998. Universidad Autónoma del Tamaulipas, Facultad de
Medicina Veterinaria Zootechnia, invited seminar, Cd. Victoria, Mexico (with
S.F. Nates).
Dominance of Deep Infaunal Environments among Red Mangrove Roots by an Axiid
Shrimp and Bivalve Mollusc Living in Hypoxic Symbiosis. March 1998. The
Benthic Ecology Meetings, Melbourne, Florida.
Sulfide Tolerance and Sulfide-based ATP Production in the Ghost Shrimp
Lepidophthalmus louisianensis and Callichirus islangrande . March 1998. The
Benthic Ecology Meetings, Melbourne, Florida (with R. Bourgeois).
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Comparison of Burrow Morphology among Three Species of ghost shrimp, genus
Lepidophthalmus (Crustacea, Thalassinidea). March 1998. The Benthic Ecology
Meetings, Melbourne, Florida (with S. Nates).
Settlement Cues in Successive Developmental Stages of the Ghost Shrimp Callichirus major and C. islagrande (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). March 1998.
The Benthic Ecology Meetings, Melbourne, Florida (with K. Strasser).
Mitochondrial DNA Variance in Burrowing Thalassinidean Shrimp ( Callichirus islagrande and Lepidophthalmus louisianensis ). March 1998. The Benthic
Ecology Meetings, Melbourne, Florida (with A. Bilodeau and J. Neigel).
Endemism among Decapod Crustacea of the Gulf of Mexico Assessed by Molecular
Systematics. March 1998. The Benthic Ecology Meetings, Melbourne, Florida
(with C. Schubart and J. Neigel).
Detection and Quantification of Stone Crab larvae ( Menippe sp.) from Marine Plankton
Samples using Competitive PCR. March 1998. The Benthic Ecology Meetings,
Melbourne, Florida (with J. Makinster and J. Neigel).
A Comparison of Settlement Cues in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Coast Populations of the Ghost Shrimp Callichirus major (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea).
January 1998. The Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, Boston,
Massachusetts (with K. Strasser).
Re-evaluations of Common Sympatric Western Atlantic Panopeid Crabs on the Basis of
Morphology Coloration and Molecular Genetics; July, 1998. Fourth International
Crustacean Congress, Amsterdam (with R.B. Manning, C.D. Schubart, J.E. Neigel and J. Makinster).
The Use of the Mitochondrial 165 Gene for the Study of Crustacean Phylogenies and
Biogeography. July, 1998. Fourth International Crustacean Congress,
Amsterdam (with C.D. Schubart and J.E. Neigel).
Endemism and Diversity among Western Atlantic Panopeid Crabs: A Study in Molecular
Genetics, Morphology, and Coloration. March 1999. The Benthic Ecology
Meetings, Baton Rouge, Louisiana (with C.D. Schubart and J. E. Neigel).
Evolutionary Constraints on Reproduction and Recruitment of Gulf Decapod
Crustaceans: Can We Predict Impacts of Environmental Change? January 1999.
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental Laboratory, invited seminar, Gulf Breeze, Florida.
Evidence for Multiple Paternity in the Deep Burrowing Ghost Shrimp Callichirus islagrande . March 1999. The Benthic Ecology Meetings, Baton Rouge,
Louisiana (with L. Bilodeau and J. E. Neigel).
Endemized Populations of Estuarine Ghost Shrimp ( Lepidophthalmus ) in Warm-
Temperate to Tropical Waters of the Americas (Decapoda: Callianassidae) March
1999. May 1999. The Crustacean Society Meetings, Lafayette, Louisiana (with
J.L. Staton and S.F. Nates).
Effects of Sulfide and Anoxia on Oxygen Consumption and Ventilatory Rates of the
Ghost Shrimp Lepidophthalmus louisianensis and Callichirus islagrande . March
1999. May 1999. The Crustacean Society Meetings, Lafayette, Louisiana (with
R.P. Bourgeois).
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Evidence for Multiple Paternity in the Burrowing Ghost Shrimp, Callichirus islagrande .
March 1999. May 1999. The Crustacean Society Meetings, Lafayette, Louisiana
(with A.L. Bilodeau and J.E. Neigel).
What Can Molecular Markers Tell Us about Larval Dispersal? May 1999. The
Crustacean Society Meetings, Lafayette, Louisiana (with J.E. Neigel and A.L.
Bilodeau).
Molecular Phylogeny and Population Studies of Ocypodidae from the Northwestern
Atlantic, with the Discovery of a COI Pseudogene. May 1999. The Crustacean
Society Meetings, Lafayette, Louisiana (with C.D. Schubart and J.E. Neigel).
Sand as a Stimulus for Settlement in the Ghost Shrimp Callichirus major (Say) and C. islagrande (Schmitt) (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassidae). May 1999. The
Crustacean Society Meetings, Lafayette, Louisiana (with K.M. Strasser).
A Proposed Novel Feeding Apparatus in the Remipede Crustacean, Speleonectes tulumensis (Remipedia, Nectiopoda). May 1999. The Crustacean Society
Meetings, Lafayette, Louisiana (with B.E. Felgenhauer).
Comparative Ecology and Physioecology of Thalassinid Decapods: Remarkable
Adaptation Among Dominant and Persistent Fossorial Forms. September 1999.
Invited plenary presentation for special session at the 7 th
Colloquium Crustacea
Decapoda Mediterranea, Lisbon, Portugal.
Effects of Beach Restoration on Population Genetics of Island Populations of a
Burrowing Ghost Shrimp. September 1999. 15th Biennial International
Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, New Orleans, Louisiana (with
A. L. Bilodeau and J. E. Neigel).
Molecular Ecology of Larval Dispersal. September 1999. 15th Biennial International
Conference of the Estuarine Research Federation, New Orleans, Louisiana (with
J. E. Neigel and A. L. Bilodeau).
Endemized Populations of Coastal Ghost Shrimp ( Lepidophthalmus spp.) in the Eastern
Pacific (Decapoda: Callianassidae). June 2000. Invited presentation , Symposium on Macrocrustaceans of the Eastern Pacific, The Crustacean Society, Puerto
Vallarta, Mexico.
Ontogenetic Changes in Biochemical Composition during Larval Growth of
Lepidophthalmus louisianensis (Schmitt, 1935), a Ghost Shrimp with Abbreviated
Development. June 2000. The Crustacean Society, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico (with
S. F. Nates and C. L. McKenney, Jr.).
Hidden Tropical Endemic Crustaceans and their Ecological Significance in Coastal
Waters of the Americas. November 2000. Invited Plenary Speaker, Symposium on Ecología Tropical para el Siglo XXI: Biodiversidad, Cambio Global y
Restauración de Ecosistemas, Centro de Ecología, Instituto Venezolano de
Investigaciones Científicas, Caracas, Venezuela.
Similarity of 16S mtDNA sequences in the swimming crabs Callinectes bocourti and C. maracaiboensis (Brachyura, Portunidae) from Venezuela. 16-20 October 2000
Congresso Brasileiro sobre Crustáceos, São Pedro (SP) Brazil.
(Schubart, Conde,
Carmona, Robles and Felder).
Ecological Roles of Regionally Endemized Fossorial Crustaceans in Tropical Coastal
Waters of the Americas. 15-20 February 2001. Invited Symposium Speaker,
American Association for the Advancement of Science, San Francisco.
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Larval Morphology and Preliminary Molecular Systematics for the Family Pinnotheridae
De Hann, 1883, as Evidence for a Revised Classification. 9-13 July 2001.
International Crustacean Congress, Melbourne, Australia. (Cuesta, Schubart, and
Felder).
Molecular Phylogeny of Western Atlantic Callinectes Stimpson, 1860, based on two mitochondrial genes. 9-13 July 2001. International Crustacean Congress,
Melbourne, Australia. (Robles, Schubart, Conde, Carmona-Suárez, and Felder).
A New Brachyuran Family from Central America: Larval and Adult Morphology with a
Molecular Phylogeny of the Grapsoidea. 9-13 July 2001. International
Crustacean Congress, Melbourne, Australia. (Schubart, Cuesta, and Felder).
Ecosystem Impacts of Thalassinoid Decapod Crustaceans. 27 February 2001. Invited
Seminar , National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Insitution,
Washington, D.C.
Ecological and Economic Implications of a New Tropical Jellyfish in the
Northern Gulf of Mexico.14-17 February 2001. ASLO Aquatic Sciences
Meetings, Albuquerque, N. M. (Graham, Martin, Perry, and Felder).
Evidence for Ecological Change in the Northern Gulf of Mexico: A Summary of
Invasive and Noninvasive Jellyfish Populations. 21-26 June 2001. Second
Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology, San Francisco, CA.
(Graham, Martin, Perry, and Felder).
Genetic variability of the sesarmid crab Armases cinereum within and outside the Gulf of
Mexico. 2-6 September 2002. 8 th
Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea,
Corfu, Greece. (Weil, Felder and Schubart).
Larval development of Pachycheles serratus (Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) under laboratory conditions, with notes on the larvae of the genus. 2-6 September 2002.
8 th
Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea, Corfu, Greece. (Rodriguez,
Hernandez, Megan, Bolanos and Felder).
Polyphyly of the genus Pinnixa (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae), as supported by larval morphology and molecular genetics. 2-6 September 2002. 8 th
Colloquium
Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea, Corfu, Greece. (Cuesta, Schubart and Felder).
Molecular systematics for the superfamily Pinnotheroidea de Haan, 1833, as evidence for a revised classification. 2-6 September 2002. 8 th
Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda
Mediterranea, Corfu, Greece. (Cuesta, Schubart and Felder).
Thalassinideans in extreme environments ( Plenary Invited Lecture ). 2-6 September
2002.
8 th Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea, Corfu, Greece.
Preliminary evidence of molecular variability among populations of the hermit crab
Paguristes tortugae (Diogenidae), on the basis of the 16s rRNA gene. 2-6
September 2002. 8 th Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea, Corfu,
Greece. (Garcia, Mantelatto, Strasser and Felder).
Molecular phylogeny of the swimming crab genus Portunus (Portunidae) from the western Atlantic, based on the 16s rRNA gene. 2-6 September 2002. 8 th Colloquium Crustacea
Decapoda Mediterranea, Corfu, Greece. (Mantelatto, Robles and Felder).
Molecular phylogeny of Callinectes Stimpson, 1860. 2-6 September 2002. 8 th
Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea, Corfu, Greece. (Robles, Felder and Schubart).
Protracted larval development in Axianassa australis (Thalassinidea: Axianassidae). 2-6
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September 2002. 8 th
Colloquium Crustacea Decapoda Mediterranea, Corfu,
Greece. (Strasser and Felder).
Molecular phylogenetic analysis of co-evolution and endemism in fossorial thalassinideans and commensal decapods inhabiting their burrows ( Invited
Symposium Paper ). 9-16 September 2002. Symposium on “Patterns and
Processes in Crustacean Evolution” convened at the VI International Congress of
Systematic and Evolutionary Biology (Biodiversity in the Information Age),
Patras, Greece (Robles and Felder).
Variaciones en la morphología larvaria del cangrejo
Tunicotheres moseri (Rathbun,
1918). 14 November 2002. Congresso Brasileiro Sobre Crustáceos, Sao Paulo,
Brazil (Balanos, Cuesta, Hernandez and Felder).
Preliminary evidence of molecular variability among populations of the hermit crab
Paguristes tortugae (Diogenidae), on the basis of the 16s rRNA gene. 14
November 2002. Congresso Brasileiro Sobre Crustáceos, Sao Paulo, Brazil
(Biagi, Mantelatto, Strasser and Felder).
The systematic status of the crab genus Portunus (Portunidae) from the western Atlantic based on molecular phylogeny. 14 November 2002. Congresso Brasileiro Sobre
Crustáceos, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Mantelatto, Robles and Felder).
Molecular phylogenetic investigation of the hermit crab Loxopagurus loxochelis
(Diogenidae) from the Brazilian and Argentinian Provinces. 14 November 2002.
Congresso Brasileiro Sobre Crustáceos, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Mantelatto, Robles,
Biagi, Felder, and Scelzo).
Biochemical concentration of ovary and hepatopancreas tissues in the intertidal grapsoid crabs Armases cinereum and Sesarm a nr. reticulatum . 2 June 2003.
Crustacean Society meetings, Williamsburg, Virginia (B. Hasek and D. Felder).
A phylogenetic survey of Porcellanidae from the Gulf of Mexico and adjacent waters. 3 June 2003. Crustacean Society meetings, Williamsburg, Virginia (I. T.
Rodriguez and D. Felder).
Species status of the Paguristes tortugae complex (Diogenidae: evidence of molecular variability in the western Atlantic. 24 September 2003, Décimo
Congreso Latinoamericano de Ciencias del Mar. San Jose, Costa Rica
(Mantellato, Biagi, Strasser and Felder).
Biochemical contents of ovary and hepatopancreas tissues in Uca longisignalis and Uca nr. minax . 16 September 2003. Estuarine Research Federation Meetings. Seattle,
Washington (B. Hasek and D. Felder).
Effects of bioturbation by ghost shrimp on Tampa Bay sediment. USGS BASIS 4
Conference, St. Petersburg, FL, Oct. 27-30. ABSTRACT p. 34 (poster). (P.
Klerks, D. Felder, and P. Swarzenski)
Adaptation and opportunism of American callianassids in hypoxic substrates (Invited
Symposium Paper) 1 November 2003. International Symposium on Ecology of
Large Bioturbators in Tidal Flats and Shallow Sublittoral Sediments. Nagasaki,
Japan.
Morphología larvaria de Orthotheres barbatus (Desbonne, 1867) (Decapoda:
Pinnotheridae) con una clave para las larvas conocidas de especies de la familia presentes en costas Venezolanas. 29 November 2003. LIII Convención Anual
Asociación Venezolana para el Avance de la Ciencia. Maracaibo, Venezuela (J.
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Bolaños, W. Rivero, J. Hernández, I Magán, G. Hernández, J. Cuesta, and D.
Felder).
Systematic resources and practice for taxonomy of decapods. 20-24 January 2004. US
Atlantic Decapod crustacean systematics workshop, South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, Charleston, SC ( Invited workshop leader and speaker )
Effects of bioturbation by ghost shrimp on Tampa Bay sediment. 30 January 2004.
3rd Annual Tampa Bay Science Conference, USGS St. Petersburg, Florida
( Invited poster with P. L. Klerks )
Genética poblacional y filogeografia de
Petrolisthes armatus (Decapoda: Anomura:
Porcellanidae. 21-23 October 2004. IV Reunión Nacional Alejandro Villalobos,
México City, México (with I. T. Rodriguez).
Cangrejos porcelanidos del Golfo de México y agues adyacentes: nuevos registros. 21-
23 October 2004. IV Reunión Nacional Alejandro Villalobos, México City,
México (with I. T. Rodriguez).
Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Lepidophthalmus based on16S mitochondrial DNA.
25-28 October 2004. 3rd Brazilian Crustacean Congress and 2004 meeting of
The Crustacean Society, Florianopolis, Brazil (with R. Robles).
Insights of molecular analyses in phylogeny and ecology of American callianassids
(Decapoda, Thalassinidea). 25-28 October 2004. 3rd Brazilian Crustacean
Congress and 2004 meeting of The Crustacean Society, Florianopolis, Brazil
( Invited Plenary Address ).
Phylogeny of the porcelain crabs (Anomura: Procellanidae): Morphological and molecular evidence. 18-22 July 2005. Sixth International Crustacean Congress,
Glasgow, Scotland (with I. T. Rodriguez).
Systematic position of the Asthenognathidae Stimpson, 1858 and Pseudopinnixa carinata
Ortman (Decapoda, Brachyura): New findings from larval and DNA comparisons.
18-22 July 2005. Sixth International Crustacean Congress, Glasgow, Scotland
(with J. A. Cuesta and C. D. Schubart).
Phylogeny of the marine clawed lobsters based on mitochondrial rDNA. 18-22 July 2005.
Sixth International Crustacean Congress, Glasgow, Scotland (with D. Tshudy et al.)
Differencias entre Petrolisthes magdalenensis Werding, 1978 y P. lewisi (Glassell, 1936)
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Porcellanidae). 32nd Annual Scientific Meeting of the
Association of Marine Laboratories, 13-17 June 2005, Curacao, Netherlands
Antilles (with G. Hernandez, I. T. Rodriguez, J. Bolanos, C. Lira, and K. Gaterol, in absentia).
Interaction between sediment bioturbation by ghost shrimp and sediment metal levels in
Tampa Bay. 4th Annual GOM Integrated Science Conference for Tampa Bay
Studies, 8-9 February 2005, Gulfport, Florida (with P. L. Klerks, poster in absentia).
Molecular phylogenetic status of the hermit crab genera and Isocheles
(Diogenidae). XI Congresso de Ciencias del Mar de Chile, 16-20 May 2005,
Valparaiso, Chile (with F. Mantelatto, R. Robles, and R. Biagi, in absentia)
Burrowing Shrimp Biology and Ecology: The Biologist's Global Overview. The 2006
Workshop on Burrowing Shrimp Control (in northwest United States Pacific
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coast oyster fishery), Washington State University and USDA Laboratory, Long
Beach, Washington, February 2006 (Invited Plenary Address)
Accounting for Marine Decapod Diversity: The Gulf of Mexico Effort. Congresso:
Reunión Alejandro Villalobos V, Instituto de Biología, UNAM, Mexico City,
Mexico, 19 October 2006 (Invited Plenary Address)
Filogenia Molecular del género Lepidophthalmus (Decapoda: Callianassidae).
Congresso: Reunión Alejandro Villalobos V, Instituto de Biología, UNAM,
Mexico City, Mexico, 19-20 October 2006 (co-authored with R. Robles)
Decapod Diversity: The Gulf of Mexico Checklist Project. Annual Meeting of the National Committee on world "Census of Marine Life" (CoML), Harte
Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Corpus Christi, Texas, 15
November 2006 (Invited presentation)
The Gulf of Mexico All-taxa Biotic Inventory: The Critical Baseline for Invasive
Species Monitoring. Gulf of Mexico/Caribbean Marine Invasive Species
Workshop, sponsored by the Smithsonian Ecological Research Center and
Harte Research Institute, Corpus Christi, Texas, 26-27 February 2007
(Invited presentation)
Ecologically Informative Genetic Clades Among Burrowing Mud Shrimp (Crustacea,
Thalassinidea (invited seminar) NOAA/NMFS Marine Lab and TAMU
Galveston Marine Biology Department, 20 March 2007, Galveston, Texas, Ft.
Crockett Campus
Understanding Invertebrate Biodiversity in the Gulf of Mexico (invited special lecture to
Invertebrate Zoology Course) Texas A&M University—Galveston, 21 March
2007, main campus
Filogenia Molecular dos Caranguejos do Gênero Portunus (Decapoda, Portunidae) dos
Oceanos Pacífico e Atlântico Americano. XII Congresso Latino-Americano de
Ciências do Mar, Florianópolis, Brazil, 15-19 April 2007 published abstract
Nº 10055, p. 20. (Mantelatto, F.L.M.; Robles, R.; Wehrtmann, I. & D.L.
Felder)
Cryptic Diversity within the Genus Alpheus from the Gulf of Mexico and Adjacent
Waters (Decapoda: Caridea: Alpheidae). The Crustacean Society Meeting,
Coquimbo, Chile, 14-17 October 2007 published abstract, program p. 41 (with H.
D. Bracken and R. Robles)
Molecular Phylogeny of Fiddler Crabs (Brachyura: Ocypodidae: Uca) with Emphasis on the American Representatives and Character Evolution. The Crustacean Society
Meeting, Coquimbo, Chile, 14-17 October 2007 published abstract, program p.
51 (with R. B. Landstorfer and C. D. Schubart)
Molecular Support for Nihonotrypaea harmandi (Bouvier, 1901) and another new species of Nihonotrypaea in Ariake Sound Estuarine System, Japan. The
Crustacean Society Meeting, Coquimbo, Chile, 14-17 October 2007, published abstract, program p. 59 (with R. Robles and A. Tamaki)
Regional Marine Decapod Biodiversity: The Gulf of Mexico Effort.
Smithsonian Institution Marine Science Symposium, Washington, D. C., 15-16
November 2007, published abstract, program p. 9 (with R. Lemaitre, A. Alvarez and J. W. Goy).
Obvious Invaders and Overlooked Infauna: Unexpected Constituents of the Decapod
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Crustacean Assemblage at Twin Cays, Belize. Smithsonian Institution Marine
Science Symposium, Washington, D. C., 15-16 November 2007, published
Abstract. (with P. C. Dworschak, R. Lemaitre, R. Robles, H. D.
Bracken, A. M. Windsor and J. M. Felder).
An Early Warning System for Invasive Species: The Texas Marine Species Inventory.
Biennial Meeting of the Estuarine Research Federation, Providence, RI, 4-8
November 2007, published abstract. (with S. Nañez-James, J. W. Tunnell, and D.
K. Camp).
Phylogeny of the Infraorder Caridea based on Mitochondrial and Nuclear Genes
(Crustacea: Decapoda). Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and
Comparative Biology, San Antonio, Texas, 2-6 January 2008, published abstract.
(with H. D. Bracken, and S. De Grave
An Overview of Decapod Molecular Phylogeny. Annual Meeting of the Society for
Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Antonio, Texas, 2-6 January 2008, published abstract. (with A. Toon, R. Seamons, R. Robles, and K. Crandall)
Molecularly Based Re-examination of Subfamily Relationships and Polyphyly in the
Pinnotheridae (Decapoda, Brachyura, Pinnotheridae). Annual Meeting of the
Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San Antonio, Texas, 2-6
January 2008, published abstract. (with E. Palacios-Theil, J. A. Cuesta, and E.
Campos).
Re-examination of Hexapanopeus , Acantholobulus , and related genera of the Panopeidae
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) by morphological and molecular methods.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San
Antonio, Texas, 2-6 January 2008, published abstract. (with B. P. Thoma and C.
D. Schubart).
Molecular phylogeny of the Thalassinidea based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes.
Annual Meeting of the Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology, San
Antonio, Texas, 2-6 January 2008, published abstract. (with R. Robles, C. C.
Tudge, P. C. Dworschak, and G. C. B. Poore)
Molecular phylogeny of the superfamily Eriphioidea (Crustacea:Decapoda: Brachyura): is the Eriphioidea monophyletic? Annual Meeting, The Crustacean Society,
Galveston, Texas, 10-13 June 2008 (with J.C.Y Lai, B. Thoma, and Peter K. L.
Ng).
Barcoding gene COI fails to distinguish between two fiddler crabs (Brachyura:
Ocypodidae: Uca ) across their entire range of geographic overlap. Annual
Meeting, The Crustacean Society, Galveston, Texas, 10-13 June 2008 (with R.
Landstorfer and C. D. Schubart).
Thalassinidean Phylogenetics and Diversity: Molecular Insights. Annual Meeting, The
Crustacean Society, Galveston, Texas, 10-13 June 2009. (with R. Robles).
Incongruence between molecular data and morphological classification in four species of the genus Mithrax Desmarest, 1823 (Majoidea, Mithracidae). Annual Meeting,
The Crustacean Society, Galveston, Texas, 10-13 June 2008. (with A. Windsor).
Limitations of the barcoding gene, for distinction of fiddler crabs (Brachyura:
Ocypodidae: Uca ) across a broad range of geographic overlap. XXth
International Congress of Zoology, Paris, France, 26-29 August 2008. (with R.
Landstorfer and C. D. Schubart).
Mesophotic Depth Decapod Crustaceans.NOAA Mesophotic Coral Reefs Workshop, July
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2008, Jupiter Inlet, FL
Swimming crabs in evidence: A molecular phylogeny of the sculling crab genus Cronius with reassignment of C. tumidulus and several American species of Portunus to the genus Achelous (Portunidae). Advances in Crustacean Phylogenetics
International Symposium, Rostock, Germany, 7-11 October 2008. (with F. L.
Mantelatto, R. Robles, and C. D. Schubart).
Decapod Phylogenetics. Advances in Crustacean Phylogenetics.
International Symposium, Rostock, Germany, 7-11 October 2008. (with K. A.
Crandall, H. Bracken, J. Martin, M. Finley, and J. Rasmussen).
Callianassidae and related families (Decapoda: Thalassinidea): progress towards a practical classification based on morphology and molecules. Advances in
Crustacean Phylogenetics International Symposium, Rostock, Germany, 7-11
October 2008. (with G. C. B. Poore, P. C. Dworschak, R. Robles, and C. Tudge).
Reassignment of C. tumidulus and several American species of Portunus to the resurrected genus Achelous (Portunidae) based on molecular analysis. Fifth
Congresso Brasileiro sobre Crustaceos, Gramado, RS, Brazil, 10-13 November
2008 (with F. L. Mantelatto, R. Robles, and C. D. Schubart)
Regional assessment of known biodiversity: The Gulf of Mexico Effort. World
Conference on Marine Biodiversity, Valencia, Spain 11-15 November 2008
(with D. K. Camp, J. W. Tunnell, Jr., and F. Moretzshon).
Biodiversity in shallow, mesophotic, and deeper coral reefs. Biannual Meeting of Marine
Laboratories of the Caribbean, 34 th
Scientific Conference, Dominica, 25-29 May
2009 (with M. Reaka, S. Altman, D. L. Ballantine, M. J. Dowgiallo, R. Pyle, J.
Reed, H. Spalding, E. Palacios-Theil, and E. Weil.)
A comparison of regional marine biodiversity studies and their application to ecosystem
approaches to management. Gulf of Maine Census of Marine Life Meetings, St.
Andrews Bay, New Brunswick, Canada, 4-9 October 2009 (with S. L. Ellis, L. S.
Incze, P. Lawton, B. R. MacKenzie, C. R. Pitcher, T. C. Shirley, R. J.
McLaughlin, H. Ojaveer, M. Eero, M. E. Greenlaw, N. E. Kelly, J. W. Tunnell,
Jr., and N. H. Wolff).
Inferences of thalassinidean phylogenies in ecology and biogeography (Decapoda:
Gebiidea and Axiidea). Annual Meeting, The Crustacean Society and
Carcinological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 20-24 September 2009 (with R.
Robles, G. C. B. Poore, and P. C. Dworschak).
Callianassidae and related families (Decapoda): A practical classification based on morphology and molecules. Annual Meeting, The Crustacean Society and
Carcinological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 20-24 September 2009 (with G. C.
B. Poore, R. Robles, and P. C. Dworschak).
Phylogeny of the infraorder Stenopodidea (Crustacea: Decapoda) based on morphological and molecular data. Annual Meeting, The Crustacean Society and
Carcinological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 20-24 September 2009 (with H.
Bracken and J. W. Goy).
A tree of life for the Decapoda. Annual Meeting, The Crustacean Society and
Carcinological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 20-24 September 2009 (with H.
Bracken, J. W. Martin, R. Robles, B. Thoma, A. Windsor, E. Palacios-Theil, J.
Rasmussen, D. Kim, and K. Crandall).
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Evaluation of the validity of the family Inachiodidae (Brachyura: Majoidea). Annual
Meeting, The Crustacean Society and Carcinological Society of Japan, Tokyo,
Japan, 20-24 September 2009 (with A. Windsor).
Phylogenetic analysis of the genus Austinixa (Crustacea, Decapoda, Pinnotheridae).
Annual Meeting, The Crustacean Society and Carcinological Society of Japan,
Tokyo, Japan, 20-24 September 2009 (with E. Palacios-Theil).
Phylogenetic position, systematic status, and divergence time of the Procarididae
(Crustacea: Decapoda). Annual Meeting, The Crustacean Society and
Carcinological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 20-24 September 2009 (with H.
Bracken, S. De Grave, A. Toon, and K. A. Crandall).
Molecular phylogeny of Xanthoidea sensu Ng et al . (2008), with emphasis on the subfamilies of Xanthidae. Annual Meeting, The Crustacean Society and
Carcinological Society of Japan, Tokyo, Japan, 20-24 September 2009 (with B.
Thoma).
Molecular phylogeny of Xanthoidea sensu Ng et al . (2008), with emphasis on composition of the family Xanthidae. Seventh International Crustacean Congress,
Quingdao, China, 22-25 June 2010 (with B. Thoma).
Molecular phylogeny of the Majoidea: Some answers and new questions for a problematic superfamily. Seventh International Crustacean Congress,
Quingdao, China, 22-25 June 2010 (with A. Windsor and F. Palero).
Molecular phylogeny of decapod crustaceans: Branches on the Tree of Life and their evolutionary implications. Seventh International Crustacean Congress,
Quingdao, China, 22-25 June 2010 (Invited Plenary Paper, with H. Bracken-
Grissom, K. Crandall, J. Martin, A. Windsor, B. Thoma, G. Poore, P. Dworschak,
J. Cuesta, C. Schubart, S. De Grave, R. Robles, F. Mantelatto and others).
Molecular insights into the evolution of shrimp-like decapods: Origins, relationships, and phylogenetically significant traits. Seventh International Crustacean Congress,
Quingdao, China, 22-25 June 2010 (with H. Bracken-Grissom, J. Rasmussen, and
K. Crandall).
PUBLICATIONS
Felder, D.L. 1973. A record of Pinnixa lunzi (Glassell) Decapoda, Pinnotheridae) from off the coast of Texas, U.S.A. Crustaceana, 241: 148-149.
Felder, D.L. 1973. An annotated key to crabs and lobsters (Decapoda, Reptantia) from coastal waters of the northwestern Gulf of Mexico.
Publications of The Center for Wetland Resources , LSU-SG-73-02: 103 pages,
179 figures.
Buden, D.M., and D.L. Felder. 1977. Cave Shrimps from the Caicos Islands.
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , 90(1): 108-115.
Stern, E.M., and D.L. Felder. 1978. Identification of host fishes for four species of freshwater mussels (Bivalvia; Unionidae). American Midland Naturalist , 100(1):
233-236.
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Felder, D.L. 1978. Osmotic and ionic regulation in several western Atlantic
Callianassidae (Crustacea, Decapoda, Thalassinidea). The Biological Bulletin ,
154(3): 409-429, 10 figs.
Felder, D.L. 1979. Respiratory adaptations of the estuarine mud shrimp, Callianassa jamaicense (Schmitt, 1935) (Crustacea, Decapoda, Thalassinidea). The Biological
Bulletin , 157(1): 120-139, 6 figs.
Felder, D.L., and A.H. Chaney. 1979. Decapod crustacean fauna of Seven and One-Half
Fathom Reef, Texas: Species composition, abundance and species diversity.
Contributions in Marine Science , 22: 1-29, 7 figs, 1 plate.
Dakin, M.E., and D.L. Felder. 1981. A record of the mayfly Dolania americana in
Louisiana (Ephemeroptera: Behningiidae). The Florida Entomologist , 64(3): 454-
455.
Felder, D.L. 1982. Life histories of the snapping shrimps Synalpheus apioceros and S. fritzmuelleri (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheidae) on a sublittoral reef of Texas.
Proceedings of the Symposium on South Texas Fauna, Publ. Caesar Kleberg
Foundation , 1982: 57-64.
Felder, D.L. 1982. A report of the ostracode Vargula harveyi Kornicker and King, 1965
(Myodocopida, Cypridinidae) in the southern Bahamas and its implication in luminescence of a ghost crab, Ocypode quadrata (Fabricius, 1787). Crustaceana
42(2): 222-224.
Felder, D.L. 1982. Reproduction of snapping shrimps ( Synalpheus ) on a sublittoral reef off Texas. Journal of Crustacean Biology , 2(4): 535-543.
Martin, J.W., D.L. Felder, and F.M. Truesdale. 1984. A comparative study of morphology and ontogeny in juvenile stages of four Western Atlantic xanthoid crabs. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London , B 303: 537-
604, 48 text figs., 5 tables.
Martin, J.W., and D.L. Felder. 1984. Rediscovery and redescription of Cirolana obtruncata Richardson, 1901 (Peracarida, Isopoda, Cirolanidae) from the east coast of Mexico. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash ., 97(1): 30-34.
Martin, J.W., D.L. Felder, and F.M. Truesdale. 1985. Larval development of Panopeus bermudensis Benedict and Rathbun, 1981 (Brachyura, Xanthidae) with notes on the evolution of zoeal characters in xanthid crabs. Journal of Crustacean Biology
5(1): 84-105, 2 tables, 7 figs.
Felder, D.L., J.W. Martin, and J.W. Goy. 1985. Patterns in early postlarval development of decapods, pp. 163-225 In A. M. Wenner (ed.), Crustacean Issues, No. 2, Larval
Growth. Balkema Press, Rotterdam.
Felder, J.M., D.L. Felder, and S.C. Hand. 1986. Ontogeny of osmoregulation in the estuarine ghost shrimp Callianassa jamaicense var. louisianensis Schmitt
(Decapoda, Thalassinidea). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and
Ecology 99: 91-105, 8 figures.
Felder, D.L., and N.N. Rabalais. 1986. The genera Chasmocarcinus Rathbun and
Speocarcinus Stimpson on the continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico, with descriptions of two new species (Decapoda: Brachyura: Goneplacidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 6(3): 547-575.
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Felder, D.L., and R.B. Manning. 1986. A new genus and two new species of alpheid shrimps (Decapoda: Caridea) from South Florida. Journal of Crustacean Biology
6(3): 497-508.
Manning, R.B., and D.L. Felder. 1986. The Status of the callianassid genus Callichirus
Stimpson, 1866 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Proceedings of the
Biological Society of Washington 99(3): 437-443.
Williams, A.B., and D.L. Felder. 1986. Analysis of stone crabs: Menippe mercenaria
(Say), restricted, and a previously unrecognized species described (Decapod:
Xanthidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 99(3): 517-543,
8 figs, 4 tables, 1 color plate.
Goy, J.W., and D.L. Felder. 1988. Two new species of Microprosthema from the
Western Atlantic (Crustacea: Decapoda: Stenopodidea). J. Natural History 22:
1277-1292.
Lovett, D.L., and D.L. Felder. 1988. Evaluation of the rotifer Brachionus plicatilis as a substitute for Artemia in feeding larvae of Macrobrachium rosenbergii .
Aquaculture 77: 331-338.
Martin, J.W., F.M. Truesdale, and D.L. Felder. 1988. The megalopal stage of the stone crab Menippe adina Williams and Felder, 1986, with a comparison of megalopae in the genus Menippe . Fishery Bulletin . 86(2): 289-297.
Reaka, M.L., R.B. Manning and D.L. Felder. 1989. The significance of macro- and microhabitat for reproduction in reef-dwelling stomatopods from Belize.
Biology of Stomatopods (E.A. Ferrero, Ed.), Selected Symposia and Monographs,
U.Z.I. (ITALY), 3: 183-198.
Rabalais, S.C., W. Pulich, N. Rabalais, D.L. Felder, R. Tinnin, and R. Kalke. 1989. A biological and physiographical characterization of the Rio Carrizal Estuary,
Tamaulipas, Mexico. Contributions in Marine Science 31: 25-37.
Manning, R.B., and D.L. Felder, D.L. 1989. Review of the Pinnixa cristata complex, with description of two new species from the Western Atlantic. Smithsonian
Contributions to Zoology 473: 1-26.
Williams, A.B., L.G., Abele, D.L. Felder, H.H. Hobbs, Jr., R.B. Manning, P.A.
McLaughlin, and I. Perez-Farfante. 1989. Common and scientific names of decapod crustaceans from the United States and Canada: Decapoda Crustaceans.
American Fisheries Society Special Publication No. 17. Bethesda: American
Fisheries Society. 89 p. + 4 color plates
Lovett, D.L., and D.L. Felder. 1989. Ontogeny of gut morphology in the white shrimp
Penaeus setiferus (Decapoda, Penaeidae). Journal of Morphology 201: 253-272.
Felder, D.L., and D.L. Lovett. 1989. Relative growth and sexual maturation in the estuarine ghost shrimp Callianassa louisianensis Schmitt, 1935. Journal of
Crustacean Biology . 9(4): 540-553.
Lovett, D.L., and D.L. Felder. 1989. Application of regression techniques to studies of relative growth in crustaceans. Journal of Crustacean Biology . 9(4): 529-539.
Lovett, D.L., and D.L. Felder. 1990. Ontogeny of kinematics in the gut of the white shrimp Penaeus setiferus (Decapoda, Penaeidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology
10(1): 53-68.
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Lovett, D.L., and D.L. Felder. 1990. Ontogenetic change in digestive enzyme activity of larval and postlarval white shrimp Penaeus setiferus (Crustacea, Decapoda,
Penaeidae). Biological Bulletin 178(2): 144-159.
Lovett, D.L., and D.L. Felder. 1990. Ontogenetic change of enzyme distribution and gut function in developmental stages of Penaeus setiferus (Crustacea, Decapoda,
Penaeidae). Biological Bulletin 178(2): 160-174.
Felder, D.L. 1990. Book Review: Shore Ecology of the Gulf of Mexico by Joseph C.
Britton and Brian Morton. Journal of Crustacean Biology 10(4): 756-758.
Neigel, J.E., D.L. Felder, C.A. Chlan, and R. LaPorte. 1991. Cloning and characterization of DNA probes for genetic studies in stone crabs (Decapoda:
Xanthidae: Menippe). Journal of Crustacean Biology 11: 496-505.
Manning, R.B., and D.L. Felder. 1991. Revision of the American Callianassidae
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of
Washington , 104: 764-792.
Zimmerman, T.L., and D.L. Felder. 1991. Reproductive ecology of an intertidal brachyuran crab Sesarma sp. (nr. reticulatum ), from the Gulf of Mexico.
Biological Bulletin , 181: 387-401.
Manning, R.B., and D.L. Felder. 1992 (1991). Gilvossius , a new genus of callianassid shrimp from the eastern United States. (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea).
Bulletin of Marine Science, 49: 558-561.
Felgenhauer, B.E., L.G. Abele and D.L. Felder. 1992. Remipedia, Chapter 4, Volume 9,
Crustacea. In : R. Harrison (ed.), Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates. Wiley-
Liss, Inc.
Staton, J.L., and D.L. Felder. 1992. Osmoregulatory capacities in disjunct western
Atlantic populations of the Sesarma reticulatum complex (Crustacea, Decapoda,
Grapsidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology , 12 (3): 335-341.
Felder, D.L. 1992. Preface, pp. 11-12 In : R.H. Gore, The Gulf of Mexico, A Treasury of
Resources in the American Mediterranean. Pineapple Press, Inc., Sarasota,
Florida. 384p.
Felder, D.L., and S. de A. Rodrigues. 1993. Reexamination of the ghost shrimp
Lepidophthalmus louisianensis (Schmitt, 1935) from the northern Gulf of Mexico and comparison to L. siriboia , new sp., from Brazil (Decapoda: Thalassinidea:
Callianassidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 13(2): 357-376.
Felder, D.L., and B.E. Felgenhauer. 1993. Morphology of the midgut-hindgut juncture in the ghost shrimp Lepidophthalmus louisianensis (Schmitt) (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Thalassinidea). Acta Zoologica 74(4):263-276.
Felder, D.L., and J.L. Staton. 1994. Genetic variation in trans-Floridian species complexes of Sesarma and Uca (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura). Journal of
Crustacean Biology 14(2): 191-209.
Felder, D.L., and R.B. Manning. 1994. Description of the ghost shrimp Eucalliax mcilhennyi , new species, from South Florida, with reexamination of its known congeners (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae). Proceedings of the Biological
Society of Washington 107(2): 340-353.
Felder, D.L., and R. B. Griffis. 1994. Dominant infaunal communities at risk in shoreline habitats: Burrowing thalassinid Crustacea. OCS Study/MMS 94-0007. U.S.
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Dept. of the Interior, Minerals Mgmt. Service, Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional
Office, New Orleans. 86pp.
Felder, D.L., and C.P. Mangum. 1994. Dorothy M. Skinner -- Recipient of award for excellence in research. Journal of Crustacean Biology 14(4): 803-804.
Staton, J.L., and D.L. Felder. 1995. Genetic variation in populations of the ghost shrimp genus Callichirus (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinoidea) in the western Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico. Bulletin of Marine Science 55(2): 523-536.
Manning, R.B., and D.L. Felder. 1995. Description of the ghost shrimp Sergio mericeae , new species, from South Florida, with reexamination of S. guassutinga
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of
Washington , 108(2): 266-280.
Mouton, E.C., Jr., and D.L. Felder. 1995. Reproduction of the fiddler crabs Uca longisignalis and Uca spinicarpa in a coastal Gulf of Mexico salt marsh. Estuaries
18(3): 469-481.
Felder, D.L., and R.B. Manning. 1995. Description of the ghost shrimp Neocallichirus cacahuate , new species, from the Atlantic coast of Florida, with reexamination of
N. grandimanus and N. lemaitrei (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae).
Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 108(3): 477-490.
Mouton, E.C., Jr., and D.L. Felder. 1996. Burrow distributions and population estimates for the fiddler crabs Uca spinicarpa and Uca longisignalis in a coastal marsh.
Estuaries , 19(1): 51-61.
Manning, R.B., and D.L. Felder. 1996. Nannotheres moorei , a minute new genus and species of pinnotherid crab from Belize, Caribbean Sea (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Pinnotheridae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 109(2):
311-317.
Lemaitre, R., and D.L. Felder. 1996. A new species of ghost shrimp of the genus Sergio
Manning & Lemaitre, 1994 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Callianassidae) from the
Caribbean coast of Colombia. Proceedings of the Biological Society of
Washington 109(3):453-463.
Felder, D.L. and R.B. Manning. 1997. Ghost shrimp of the genus Lepidophthalmus
Holmes, 1904, from the Caribbean region, with description of L. richardi , new species, from Belize (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassidae) Journal of
Crustacean Biology , 17 (2): 309-331.
Nates, S.F., D.L. Felder and R. Lemaitre. 1997. Comparative larval development in two species of the burrowing ghost shrimp genus Lepidophthalmus (Crustacea,
Decapoda, Callianassidae) Journal of Crustacean Biology 17(3); 497-519.
Felder, D.L., and R.B. Manning. 1998. A new ghost shrimp of the genus
Lepidophthalmus from the Pacific coast of Colombia (Decapoda: Thalassinidea:
Callianassidae). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington , 111: 398-
408.
Nates, S.F., and D.L. Felder. 1998. Impacts of burrowing ghost shrimp, genus
Lepidophthalmus Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea, on penaeid shrimp culture ponds. Journal of the World Aquaculture Society , 29(2): 188-210.
Strasser, K.M., and D.L. Felder. 1998. Settlement cues in successive developmental stages of the ghost shrimp Callichirus major and C. islagrande (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Thalassinidea), Marine Biology , 132: 599-610.
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Schneider-Broussard, R., D.L. Felder., C.A. Chlan, and J.E. Neigel. 1999. Tests of phylogenetic models with nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequence variation in the stone crabs, Menippe adina and M. mercenaria . Evolution , 52: 1671-1678.
Nates, S.F., and D.L. Felder. 1999. Growth and maturation in the ghost shrimp
Lepidophthalmus sinuensis , a burrowing pest in penaeid shrimp culture ponds.
Fishery Bulletin 97(3): 526-541.
Strasser, K.M., and D.L. Felder. 1999. Sand as a stimulus for settlement in the ghost shrimp Callichirus major (Say) and C. islagrande (Schmitt) (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology ,
239: 211-222.
Strasser, K.M., and D.L. Felder. 1999. Larval development in two populations of the ghost shrimp Callichirus major (Decapoda: Thalassinidea) under laboratory conditions. Journal of Crustacean Biology , 19:844-878.
Strasser, K.M., and D.L. Felder. 1999. Settlement cues in an Atlantic coast population of the ghost shrimp Callichirus major (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea).
Marine Ecology Progress Series , 183:217-225.
McKinster, J.G., J.E. Roberts, D.L. Felder, C.A. Chlan, M. Boudreaux and J.E. Neigel.
1999. PCR amplification of a middle repetitive element detects larval stone crabs
(Crustacea, Decapoda, Menippidae) in estuarine plankton samples. Marine
Ecology Progress Series 188:161-168.
Bilodeau, A.L., W. Lankford, T. Kim, D.L. Felder and J.E. Neigel. 1999. An ultrasensitive method detects single crab larvae ( Sesarma reticulatum ) using PCR amplification of a highly repetitive DNA sequence. Molecular Ecology 8:683-
684.
Schubart, C.D., J.E. Neigel and D.L. Felder. 2000. Use of the 16s RNA gene for phylogenetic and biogeographic studies of brachyuran Crustacea, pp. 817-831 In
J. Carel von Vaupel Klein and F. R. Schram (eds), Crustacean Issues No.12, Vol.
2, The Biodiversity Crisis and Crustacea. Balkema Press, Rotterdam.
Strasser, K.M., and D.L. Felder. 2000. Larval development of the ghost shrimp
Callichirus islagrande (Schmitt) (Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Journal of
Crustacean Biology , 20:100-117.
Felder, D. L., and J. L. Staton. 2000. Lepidophthalmus manningi , a new ghost shrimp from the southwestern Gulf of Mexico (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassidae ).
Journal of Crustacean Biology 20:157-169.
Staton, J.L., D.W. Foltz, and D.L. Felder. 2000. Genetic variation in populations of the ghost shrimp genus Lepidophthalmus (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassidae ).
Journal of Crustacean Biology 20: 170-181.
Schubart, C.D., J.A. Cuesta, R. Diesel and D.L. Felder. 2000. Molecular phylogeny, taxonomy, and evolution of non-marine lineages with the American Grapsoidea
(Crustacea, Brachyura). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 15: 179-190.
Schubart, C. D., J. E. Neigel, and D. L. Felder. 2000. A molecular phylogeny of mud crabs (Brachyura: Panopeidae) from the northwestern Atlantic, and the role of morphological stasis and convergence. Marine Biology 137: 11-18.
Strasser, K.M., and D.L. Felder. 2001. Effect of salinity on development of the ghost shrimp Callichirus islagrande and two populations of C. major (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Gulf and Caribbean Research 13: 9-18.
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Bourgeois, R. P., and D. L. Felder. 2001. Postexposure metabolic effects of sulfide and evidence of sulfide-based ATP production in callianassid ghost shrimp
(Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). J. Exp. Mar. Biol. Ecol.
263: 105-121.
Schubart, C.D., J.E. Conde, C. Carmona-Suárez, R. Robles, and D.L. Felder. 2001.
Similarity of 16S mtDNA sequences in the swimming crabs Callinectes bocourti and C. maracaiboensis (Brachyura: Portunidae) from Venezuela. Fishery
Bulletin, U.S.
99:475-481.
Felder, D. L. 2001. Diversity and ecological significance of deep-burrowing macrocrustaceans in coastal tropical waters of the Americas (Decapoda:
Thalassinidea). Interciencia 26: 2-12 .
Schubart, C. D., J. A. Cuesta, and D. L. Felder. 2002. Glyptograpsidae, a new brachyuran family from Central America: larval and adult morphology, and a molecular phylogeny of the Grapsoidea. J. Crust. Biol.
22(1): 15-27.
Mathews, L. M., C. D. Schubart, J. E. Neigel, and D. L. Felder. 2002. Genetic, ecological and behavioural divergence between two sibling snapping shrimp species (Crustacea: Decapoda: Alpheus ). Molecular Ecology 11(8): 1427-1438.
Felder, D. L., S. F. Nates, and R. Robles. 2003. Hurricane Mitch: Impacts of
Bioturbating Crustaceans in Shrimp Ponds and Adjacent Estuaries of Coastal
Nicaragua: USGS Open File Report 03-179, 47 p.
Felder, D. L. 2002. Ventrally sclerotized members of Lepidophthalmus (Crustacea:
Decapoda: Callianassidae) from the Eastern Pacific. Annalen des
Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien 104B: 1-14.
Graham, W. M., D. L. Martin, D. L. Felder, V. L. Asper, and H. M. Perry. 2003.
Ecological and economic implications of a tropical jellyfish invader in the
Gulf of Mexico. Biological Invasions 5 :53-69.
Felder, D. L., and J. W. Martin. 2003. Establishment of a new genus for
Panopeus bermudensis Benedict and Rathbun, 1891, and several other xanthoid crabs from the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans (Crustacea: Decapoda:
Xanthoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 116(2): 438-
452.
Felder, D. L., and B. Kensley. 2004. A new species of axiid mud shrimp from chemosynthetic communities of the Louisiana continental slope, Gulf of
Mexico (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea). Proceedings of the
Biological Society of Washington 117(1): 68-75.
Rodriguez, I. T., G. Hernandez, I. Megán, J. A. Bolaños, and D. L. Felder. 2004. Larval development of Pachycheles serratus (Decapoda: Anomura: Porcellanidae) under laboratory conditions, with notes on the larvae of the genus. Journal of
Crustacean Biology 24(2): 291-308.
Bilodeau, A. L., J. E. Neigel, and D. L. Felder. 2004. Multiple paternity in the thalassinidean ghost shrimp, Callichirus islagrande . Marine
Biology 146: 381-385.
Bolaños, J., J. A. Cuesta, G. Hernández, J. Hernández and D. L. Felder. 2004.
Abbreviated larval development of Tunicotheres moseri (Rathbun, 1918)
(Decapoda, Pinnotheridae), a rare case of parental care among brachyuran crabs.
Scientia Marina 68(3): 373-384.
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Hasek, B., and D. L. Felder. 2005. Biochemical composition of ovary, embryo, and hepatopancreas in the grapsoid crabs Armases cinereum and Sesarma nr. reticulatum (Crustacea, Decapoda). Comparative Biochemistry and Physiology,
Part B 140: 455-463.
McLaughlin, P. A., D. K. Camp, M. V. Angel, E. L. Bousfield, P. Brunel, R. C. Brusca,
D. Cadien, A. C. Cohen, K. Conlan, L. G. Eldredge, D. L. Felder, J. W. Goy, T.
Haney, B. Hann, R. W. Heard, E. A. Hendrycks, H. H. Hobbs III, R. J. Holsinger,
B. Kensley, D. R. Laubitz, S. E. LeCroy, R. Lemaitre, R. F. Maddocks, J. W.
Martin, P. Mikkelson, E. Nelson, W. A. Newman, R. M. Overstreet, W. J. Poly,
W. W. Price, J. W. Reid, A. Robertson, D. C. Rogers, A. Ross, M. Schotte, F. R.
Schram, C.-T. Shih, L. Watling, G. D. F. Wilson, and D. D. Turgeon. 2005.
Common and Scientific Names of Aquatic Invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Crustaceans. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 31,
Bethesda, Maryland.533 p. + 11 color plates.
Strasser, K. M., and D. L. Felder. 2005. Larval development of the mud shrimp
Axianassa australis (Decapoda: Thalassinidea) under laboratory conditions.
Journal of Natural History, 39:2289-2306.
Bolanos, J., W. Rivero, J. Hernández, I. Magan, G. Hernández, J. Cuesta and D. Felder.
2005. Abbreviated larval development of the pea crab Orthotheres barbatus
(Decapoda, Brachyura) reared under laboratory conditions, with notes on larval characters of the Pinnotherinae. Journal of Crustacean Biology 25(3): 500-506..
Anker, A., and D. L. Felder. 2005. Description of Coutieralpheus setirostris , new genus, new species, an infaunal alpheid shrimp (Crustacea, Decapoda) from Florida,
U.S.A. Crustacean Research 23: 40-52.
Bilodeau, A. L., D. L. Felder, and J. E. Neigel. 2005. Population structure at two geographic scales in the burrowing crustacean Callichirus islgrande (Decapoda,
Thalassinidea): Historical and contemporary barriers to planktonic dispersal.
Evolution 59: 2125–2138.
Rodriguez, I. T., G. Hernandez, and D. L. Felder. 2005. Review of the
Porcellanidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura) from the western Atlantic, with new records, systematic observations, and comments on biogeography.
Caribbean Journal of Science 41(3): 544-582.
Rodríguez, I. T., G. Hernández, and D. L. Felder. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships among western Atlantic Porcellanidae (Decapoda: Anomura), based on partial sequences of the mitochondrial 16s rRNA gene, with comments on morphology.
Crustacean Research , Special Number 6: 151-166.
Schubart, C. D., J. A. Cuesta, and D. L. Felder. 2006. Phylogeography of
Pachygrapsus transverses (Gibbes, 1850): The effect of the American continent and the Atlantic Ocean as gene flow barriers, and recognition of Pachygrapsus socius Stimpson 1871 as a valid species. Nauplius (Brazil) 13 (2): 99-113 .
Hasek, B, and D. L. Felder. 2006. Biochemical contents of the ovary and hepatopancreas of Uca longisignalis and Uca nr. minax . Scientia Marina 70 (3):
505-517.
Mantelatto, F. L., R. Robles, R. Biagi, and D. L. Felder. 2006. Molecular analysis of the taxonomic and distributional status for the crab genera Loxopagurus Forest, 1964, and Isocheles Stimpson, 1858 (Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae). Zoosystema 28
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(2): 495-506
Klerks, P. L., D. L. Felder, K. M. Strasser and P. W. Swarzenski. 2007.
Effects of ghost shrimp on zinc and cadmium in sediments from Tampa Bay,
FL. Marine Chemistry 104: 17-26.
Robles, R., C. D. Schubart, J. Conde, C. Carmona-Suárez, F. Alvarez, J. Villalobos, and
D. L. Felder. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of the American Callinectes Stimpson,
1860 (Brachyura: Portunidae), based on two partial mitochondrial genes.
Biology 150: 1265-1274.
Marine
Mantelatto, F. L., R. Robles, and D. L. Felder. 2007. Molecular phylogeny of the crab genus Portunus (Crustacea, Portunidae) from the western
Atlantic. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150: 211-220.
Felder, D. L. and A. Anker. 2007. Description of Harperalpheus pequegnatae , new genus, new species, from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic coast of the southeastern USA (Crustacea, Decapoda, Alpheidae ). Systematics and
Biodiversity 5 (4): 455-463 .
McLaughlin, P. A., R. Lemaitre, F. D. Ferrari, D. L. Felder, and R. T. Bauer. 2008.
A Reply to T.W. Flegel: “The right to refuse revision of the genus
Penaeus
.”
Aquaculture 275: 370-373.
Felder, D. L, F. Álvarez, J. W. Goy and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Decapoda (Crustacea) of the Gulf of Mexico, with comments on the Amphionidacea. Pp. 1019-1104 in
D. L. Felder and D. K. Camp, eds. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and
Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Felder, D. L., D. K. Camp and J. W. Tunnell, Jr. 2009. An introduction to
Gulf of Mexico biodiversity assessment. Pp. 1-13 in D. L. Felder and D. K.
Camp, eds. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity.
Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Tunnell, J. W., Jr., D. L. Felder, and. S. A. Earle. 2009. Foreword: Fifty-year Update of Bulletin 89, Pp. xv-xix in D. L. Felder and D. K. Camp, eds. Gulf of Mexico
Origin, Waters, and Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University
Press, College Station.
Felder, D. L. and D. K. Camp (eds). 2009. Gulf of Mexico Origin, Waters, and
Biota. Volume 1, Biodiversity. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
1384p + 32 color plates.
Felder, D. L., P. C. Dworschak, R. Robles, H. D. Bracken, A. M. Windsor, J. M. Felder, and R. Lemaitre. 2009. Obvious invaders and overlooked infauna:
Unexpected constituents of the decapod crustacean assemblage at Twin Cays,
Belize. Smithsonian Contributions to the Marine Sciences 38: 181-188.
Thoma, B. P., R. W. Heard, and D. L. Felder. 2009. Redescription of Pinnixa arenicola Rathbun, 1922 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Pinnotheridae), with new observations on its range and host. Proceedings of the Biological Society of
Washington 122: 72-80.
Palacios-Theil, E., J. A. Cuesta, E. Campos, and D. L. Felder. 2009.
Molecular- based re-examination of subfamily relationships and polyphyly in the family
Pinnotheridae (Crustacea: Decapoda).
Crustacean Issues: Decapod Crustacean
Phylogenetics, J. W. Martin, K. A. Crandall, and D. L. Felder (eds).
Francis/CRC Press: 457-474.
Taylor and
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Bracken, H. D., S. De Grave, and D. L. Felder. 2009. Phylogeny of the infraorder
Caridea based on mitochondrial and nuclear genes (Crustacea: Decapoda).
Crustacean Issues: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, J. W. Martin, K. A.
Crandall, and D. L. Felder (eds).
Taylor and Francis/CRC Press: 281-305.
Thoma, B. P., C. D. Schubart, and D. L. Felder. 2009. Molecular phylogeny of the western Atlantic representatives of the genus Hexapanopeus (Decapoda:
Brachyura: Panopeidae). Crustacean Issues: Decapod Crustacean
Phylogenetics, J. W. Martin, K. A. Crandall, and D. L. Felder (eds).
Taylor and
Francis/CRC Press: 551-565.
Robles, R., C. C. Tudge, P. C. Dworschak, G. C. B. Poore, and D. L. Felder. 2009.
Molecular phylogeny of the Thalassinidea based on nuclear and mitochondrial genes. Crustacean Issues: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, J. W. Martin, K.
A. Crandall, and D. L. Felder (eds).
Taylor and Francis/CRC Press: 309-326.
Mantelatto, F. L., R. Robles, C. D. Schubart, and D. L. Felder. 2009. Molecular phylogeny of the genus Cronius Stimpson, 1860, with reassignment of C. tumidulus and several American species of Portunus to the genus Achelous De
Haan, 1833 (Brachyura: Portunidae). Crustacean Issues: Decapod Crustacean
Phylogenetics, J. W. Martin, K. A. Crandall, and D. L. Felder (eds).
Taylor and
Francis/CRC Press: 567-579.
Martin, J. W., K. A Crandall, and D. L. Felder. 2009. Preface, ix-xi. Crustacean
Issues: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, J. W. Martin, K. A. Crandall, and
D. L. Felder (eds).
Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida.
Martin, J. W., K. A Crandall, and D. L. Felder (eds). 2009. Crustacean
Issues: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, Taylor and Francis/CRC Press,
Boca Raton, Florida, 616 p.
Tshudy, D., R. Robles, T.-Y. Chan, K. C. Ho, K. H. Chu, S. T. Ahyong, and D. L. Felder.
2009. Phylogeny of marine clawed lobsters (families Nephropidae Dana
1852 and Taumastochelidae Bate 1888) based on mitochondrial genes.
Crustacean Issues: Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, J. W. Martin, K. A.
Crandall, and D. L. Felder (eds).
Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, Boca Raton,
Florida: 356-368.
Felder, D. L., and R. Robles. 2009. Molecular phylogeny of the family Callianassidae based on a preliminary analyses of two mitochondrial genes. Crustacean Issues:
Decapod Crustacean Phylogenetics, J. W. Martin, K. A. Crandall, and D. L.
Felder (eds).
Taylor and Francis/CRC Press: 327-342.
Mantelatto, F. L., L. M. Pardo, L. Gomes Pileggi, and D. L. Felder. 2009.
Taxonomic re-examination of the hermit crab species Pagurus forceps and
Pagurus comptus (Decapoda: Paguridae) by molecular analysis. Zootaxa 2133:
20-32.
Bracken, H., A. Toon, D. L. Felder, J. W. Martin, M. Finley, J. Rasmussen, F. Palero,
K. A. Crandall
.
2009. The Decapod Tree of Life: Compiling the data and moving toward consensus on decapod evolution. Arthropod Systematics and Phylogeny
67 (1): 99-116.
De Grave, S., D. Pentcheff, S. Ahyong, T.-Y.Chan, K. A. Crandall, P. C. Dworschak, D.
L. Felder, R. M. Feldmann, C. H. J. M. Fransen, L. Y. D. Goulding, R. Lemaitre,
M. L. Low, J. W. Martin, P. K. L. Ng, C. E. Schweitzer, S. H. Tan, D. Tshudy, R.
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Wetzer. 2009. A classification of Recent and fossil decapod crustaceans. The
Raffles Bulletin of Zoology , Supplement No. 21: 1-109.
Windsor, A. M., and D. L. Felder. 2009. Re-evaluation of species allied to Mithrax hispidus (Decapoda: Majoidea: Mithracidae) based on three mitochondrial genes.
Zootaxa 2302: 61-68.
Bracken, H. D., S. De Grave, A. Toon, D. L. Felder, and K. A. Crandall. 2010.
Phylogenetic position, systematic status, and divergence time of the
Procarididea (Crustacea: Decapoda). Zoologica Scripta 39, 198–212.
Felder, D. L., and B. P. Thoma. 2010. Description of Etisus guinotae , new species, and discussion of its abrupt appearance in the Gulf of Mexico.
In : Castro et al. (eds.), Brachyura: A Homage to Danièle Guinot. Crustaceana
Monographs 11: 117-138.
Felder, D. L. (in press). Chapter 28: Macrophotographic color documentation of decapod crustaceans. Crustacean Field Collection and Preservation Techniques ,
S. De Grave and J. W. Martin (eds), Cambridge University Press.
Felder, D. L. (in press). Memories of Ray Manning. Pp. XX in “Biography of the carcinologist, R. B. Manning” by P. Clark.
Journal of Crustacean
Biology.
De Grave, S., and D. L. Felder. (in prep). A new species of Processa from Belize, with review of regional records. Zootaxa .
Reaka, M. L., S. Altman, D. L. Ballantine, M. J. Dowgiallo, D. L. Felder, R. Pyle, J.
Reed, H. Spalding, E. Palacios Theil, and E. Weil. (in revision). Biodiversity of mesophototic coral ecosystems.
Reaka, M. L, S. Altman, D. L. Felder, E. Palacios Theil, and E. Weil. (in revision). Biodiversity and endemism down a depth gradient—A tale of two seas
(crustaceans, corals).
GRADUATE STUDENTS AND POSTDOCTORAL SCHOLARS SPONSORED:
Christoph Schubart, postdoctoral
Jose Antonio Cuesta, postdoctoral
Rafael Robles, Postdoctoral, current
Fernando Mantelatto, senior postdoctoral
Dale Tshudy, senior postdoctoral
Donald Lovett, doctoral
Joseph Staton, doctoral
Karen M. Strasser, doctoral
Rafael Robles, doctoral
Teresa Rodriguez, doctoral
Barbara E. Hasek, doctoral
Brian Mahon, doctoral
Mathilde Richer de Forges, doctoral
Heather Bracken, doctoral
Thanakhom Bonghitwongrut, doctoral
Amanda Windsor, doctoral, current
Brent Thoma, doctoral, current
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Emma Palacios Theil, doctoral current
Joel W. Martin, master's
Ronnie Bouchon, master's
Robert Bourgeois, master's
Leigh Ann McGraw, master’s
Darryl R.Clark, master's
Todd L. Zimmerman, master's
Ken Fahey, master's
Edmund C. Mouton, master's
Chris Kofron, master's
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