EDUCATION

1995 PhD, Zoology, The University of Queensland, Australia

1990 MS, The University of Queensland, Australia

1985 BS, The University of Queensland, Australia


PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  2005-Present Multidisciplinary Science & Math Coordinator, College of Arts and Sciences, American University
  2004-Present Adjunct Professor, Biology Department, American University

1999-2004 Assistant Professor, Biology Department, American University

1999-2005 Smithsonian Institution Research Associate

1998-2001 Honorary Research Consultant, Department of Zoology & Entomology, The University of Queensland, Australia

1996-1999 Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow

1995-1996 Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow


FELLOWSHIPS & ASSOCIATIONS

  2004- Adjunct Faculty, Biology Department, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, Lafayette
  2002-2007 Virginia Museum of Natural History, Martinsville, Virginia, Research Associate
  1999-2005 Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of Natural History, Department of Systematic Biology, Research Associate
1998-2001 Honorary Research Consultant, Department of Zoology & Entomology, The University of Queensland, Australia
1996-1999 Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellow
1995-1996 Smithsonian Institution Postdoctoral Fellow

1992 French Government Scientific Fellowship


PUBLICATIONS

  46 Tirelli, T., Pessani, D., Campantico, E. and Tudge, C.C. (2007). Reproductive biology of Mediterranean hermit crabs: male reproductive apparatus of Clibanarius erythropus (Decapoda, Anomura). Journal of Crustacean Biology (In Press).
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Lemaitre, R. and Tudge, C.C. (2006). (Editors) Biology of Anomura II. Proceedings of a symposium at the Sixth International Crustacean Congress, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, 18-22 July 2005. Crustacean Research (In Press).

  44 Tudge, C.C. and Lemaitre, R. (2006). Studies of male sexual tubes in hermit crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Coenobitidae). II. Morphology of the sexual tube in the land hermit crabs, Coenobita perlatus and C. clypeatus. Crustacean Research (In press).
  43 Tirelli, T., Campantico, E., Pessani, D. and Tudge, C.C. (2006). Description of the male reproductive apparatus of the hermit crab Calcinus tubularis (Anomura, Diogenidae). Crustacean Research (In press).
  42 Scelzo, M.A., Medina, A. and Tudge, C.C. (2006). Spermatozoal ultrastructure of the hermit crab Loxopagurus loxochelis (Moreira, 1901) (Anomura, Diogenidae) from the southwestern Atlantic. Crustacean Research (In press)
  41 Litulo, C., Abreu, D. and Tudge, C.C. (2006). Reproductive Biology of Calcinus laevimanus (Randall, 1840) (Anomura: Diogenidae) from Inhaca Island, southern Mozambique. Crustacean Research (In press).
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Medina, A., Scelzo, M.A. & Tudge, C.C. (2006). Spermatozoal ultrastructure in three Atlantic solenocerid shrimps (Decapoda, Dendrobranchiata). Journal of Morphology 267(3): 300-307.

  39 Litulo, C. and Tudge, C.C. (2005). Population structure and breeding season of the hermit crab Diogenes brevirostris Stimpson, 1858 (Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae) from southern Mozambique. Journal of Natural History
  38 Scelzo, M.A., Mantelatto, F.L. and Tudge, C.C. (2004). Spermatophore morphology of the hermit crab Loxopagurus loxochelis (Anomura, Diogenidae) from the southwestern Atlantic – Brazil and Argentina. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development
  37 Tudge, C. C. and Lemaitre, R. (2004). Studies of mail sexual tubes in hermit crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae). I. Morphology of the male sexual tube in Micropagurus acantholepis (Stimpson, 1858), with comments on function and evolution. Journal of Morphology 259: 106-205
  36 McLaughlin, P. A., Lemaitre, R. and Tudge, C. C. (2004). Carcinization in the Anomura – fact or fiction? II. Evidence from larval/postlarval morphology. Contributions to Zoology 73(3): 165-205
  35 Tudge, C. C. (2003). Endemic and enigmatic: The reproductive biology of Aegla (Crustacea: Decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae) with observations on sperm structure. In: Lemaitre, R. and Tudge, C.C. (eds), Biology of the Anomura. Proceedings of a symposium at the Fifth International Crustacean Congress, Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July, 2001. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60(1): 63-70.
  34 Lemaitre, R. and Tudge, C.C. (2003). (Editors) Biology of the Anomura. Proceedings of a symposium at the Fifth International Crustacean Congress, Melbourne, Australia, 9-13 July 2001. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 60(1): 1-149.
  33 Tudge, C.C. and Cunningham, C. W. (2002). Molecular phylogeny of the mud lobsters and mud shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda: Thalassinidea) using nuclear 18s rDNA and mitochondrial 16s rDNA. Invertebrate Systematics 16:839-847.
  32 Tudge, C. C. and Scheltinga, D. M. (2002). Spermatozoal morphology of the freshwater anomuran, Aegla longirostri Bond-Buckup & Buckup, 1994 (Crustacea: Decapoda: Aeglidae) from South America. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington
31 Tudge, C. C., Scheltinga, D. M. and Jamieson, B. G. M. (2001). Spermatozoal morphology in the "symmetrical" hermit crab, Pylocheles (Bathycheles) sp. (Pylochelidae, Paguroidea, Anomura, Decapoda). Zoosystema
30 Tudge, C. C., Poore, G. C. B. and Lemaitre, R. (2000). Preliminary phylogenetic analysis of generic relationships within the Callianassidae and Ctenochelidae (Decapoda: Thalassinidea: Callianassoidea). Journal of Crustacean Biology 20(special number 2): 129-149
29 Jamieson, B.G.M. and Tudge, C.C. (2000). 1. Crustacea-Decapoda. In: B.G.M. Jamieson (ed.) "Progress in Male Gamete Ultrastructure and Phylogeny", vol. 9. part c of K. G. & R. G. Adiyodi (eds.) Reproductive Biology of the Invertebrates. John Wiley & Sons, Chichester. pp. 1-95
28 Tudge, C. C. (1999). Spermatophore morphology in the hermit crab families Paguridae and Parapaguridae (Paguroidea, Anomura, Decapoda). Invertebrate Reproduction & Development 35(3): 203-214
27 Tudge, C. C., Scheltinga, D. M. and Jamieson, B. G. M. (1999). Spermatozoal ultrastructure in the Hippoidea (Anomura, Decapoda). Journal of Submicroscopic Cytology & Pathology 31(1): 1-13
26 Tudge, C. C. (1999). Ultrastructure of the spermatophore lateral ridge in hermit crabs (Paguroidea, Anomura, Decapoda). Crustaceana 72(1): 77-84
25 Poore, G. C. B., Hart, S., Taylor, J. and Tudge, C.C. 1998. Decapod crustaceans from Tasmanian sea mounts. Report to CSIRO Marine Laboratories, Hobart, Tasmania (4 March, 1998).
24 Tudge, C. C., Jamieson, B. G. M., Segonzac, M. and Guinot, D. (1998). Spermatozoal ultrastructure in three species of hydrothermal vent crab, in the genera Bythograea, Austinograea and Segonzacia (Decapoda, Brachyura, Bythograeidae) Invertebrate Reproduction and Development 34(1): 13-23
23 Tudge, C. C., Scheltinga, D. M. and Jamieson, B. G. M. (1998). Spermatozoal ultrastructure in the spiny lobster Jasus novaehollandiae Holthuis, 1963 (Palinuridae, Palinura, Decapoda). Journal of Morphology 236: 117-126
22 Tudge, C.C., Jamieson, B.G.M., Sandberg, L. and Erseus, C. (1998). Ultrastructure of the mature spermatozoon of the King Crab Lithodes maja (L.) (Lithodidae, Anomura, Decapoda): Further confirmation of a lithodid-pagurid relationship. Invertebrate Biology 117(1): 57-66
21 Guinot, D., Jamieson, B.G.M., Richer de Forges, B. and Tudge, C.C. (1998). Comparative spermatozoal ultrastructure of the three dromiacean families exemplified by Homolodromia kai (Homolodromiidae), Sphaerodromia lamellata (Dromiidae) and Dynomene tanensis (Dynomenidae) (Podotremata: Brachyura). Journal of Crustacean Biology 18(1): 78-94
20 Richer de Forges, B., Jamieson, B.G.M., Guinot, D. and Tudge, C.C. (1997). Ultrastructure of the spermatozoa of Hymenosomatidae (Crustacea, Brachyura) and the relationships of the family. Marine Biology 130: 233-242
19 Tudge, C. C. (1997). Phylogeny of the Anomura (Decapoda, Crustacea): Spermatozoa and spermatophore morphological evidence. Contributions to Zoology 67(2): 125-141
18 Jamieson, B.G.M., Guinot, D., Tudge, C.C. and Richer de Forges, B. (1997). Ultrastructure of the spermatozoa of Corystes cassivelaunus (Corystidae), Platepistoma nanum (Cancridae) and Cancer pagurus (Cancridae) supports recognition of the Corystoidea (Crustacea, Brachyura, Heterotremata). Helgolūnder Meeresuntersuchungen 51: 83-93
17 Tudge, C. C. (1997). Spermatological evidence supports the taxonomic placement of the Australian endemic hairy stone crab, Lomis hirta (Decapoda, Anomura, Lomidae). Memoirs of the Museum of Victoria 56(1): 235-244
16 Guinot, D., Jamieson, B.G.M. and Tudge, C.C. 1997. Ultrastructure and relationships of spermatozoa of the freshwater crabs Potamon fluviatile and Potamon ibericum (Crustacea, Brachyura, Potamidae). Journal of Zoology, London 241: 229-244
15 Tudge, C. C. (1996). Spermatophore morphology and spermatozoal ultrastructure of the recently described hermit crab, Strigopagurus boreonotus Forest, 1995 (Decapoda, Anomura, Diogenidae). Bulletin du MusŽum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris 4e sŽrie, 18, section A, no. 3-4: 547-555
14 Tudge, C.C. and Jamieson, B.G.M. (1996b). Spermatophore and spermatozoal morphology in the Porcellanidae. II. The genera Petrolisthes and Polyonyx (Decapoda, Anomura, Porcellanidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 16(3): 535-546
13 Tudge, C.C. and Jamieson, B.G.M. (1996a). Spermatophore and spermatozoal morphology in the Porcellanidae. I. Aliaporcellana suluensis and Pisidia longicornis (Decapoda, Anomura, Porcellanidae). Crustacean Research 25: 73-85
12 Tudge, C. C. (1995c). Ultrastructure and Phylogeny of the Spermatozoa of the Infraorders Thalassinidea and Anomura (Decapoda, Crustacea). In: Jamieson, B.G.M., Ausio, J. and Justine, J.-L. (eds.) "Advances in Spermatozoal Phylogeny and Taxonomy." MŽmoires du MusŽum national d'Histoire naturelle (Paris), 166: 251-263
11 Tudge, C. C. (1995b). "Hermit Crabs of the Great Barrier Reef and Coastal Queensland." School of Marine Science, The University of Queensland, Australia and Backhuys Publishers, Leiden. pp. 1-40

10 Tudge, C. C. (1995a). "The Ultrastructure and Phylogeny of Anomuran Crab Spermatozoa". Ph.D. Thesis, Zoology Department, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia. pp. 1-346
9 Tudge, C. C. (1994). Comparative Ultrastructure of Hermit Crab Spermatozoa (Paguroidea, Anomura, Decapoda). Paper in the Proceedings of the Seventh International Spermatology Symposium, 9-14 October, 1994, Cairns, Australia. pp. 5.33-5.34

8 Tudge, C.C. and Justine, J.-L. (1994). The cytoskeletal proteins actin and tubulin in the spermatozoa of four decapod crabs (Crustacea, Decapoda). Acta Zoologica (Stockholm) 75: 277-285

7 Tudge, C.C., Grellier, P. and Justine, J.-L. (1994). Actin in the acrosome of the spermatozoa of the crab, Cancer pagurus L. (Decapoda, Crustacea). Molecular Reproduction and Development 38:178-186

6 Jamieson, B.G.M., Tudge, C.C. and Scheltinga, D.M. (1993). The ultrastructure of the spermatozoon of Dromidiopsis edwardsi Rathbun, 1919 (Crustacea: Brachyura: Dromiidae): Confirmation of a dromiid sperm type. Australian Journal of Zoology 41:537-548

5 Tudge, C.C. (1993). Hermit Crabs (Order Decapoda, Infraorder Anomura). In P. Mather and I. Bennett (eds) "A Coral Reef Handbook. A guide to the geology, flora and fauna of the Great Barrier Reef." Surrey Beatty & Sons, Sydney. pp 116-120

4 Tudge, C.C. (1992). Comparative ultrastructure of hermit crab spermatozoa (Paguroidea, Anomura, Decapoda). Journal of Crustacean Biology 12:397-409

3 Tudge, C.C. (1991). Spermatophore diversity within and among the hermit crab families, Coenobitidae, Diogenidae and Paguridae (Paguroidea, Anomura, Decapoda). Biological Bulletin 181:238-247

2 Tudge, C.C. and Jamieson, B.G.M. (1991). Ultrastructure of the mature spermatozoon of the Coconut Crab, Birgus latro (Coenobitidae, Paguroidea, Decapoda). Marine Biology 108:395-402

1 Jamieson, B.G.M. and Tudge, C.C. (1990). Dorippids are Heterotremata: evidence from ultrastructure of the spermatozoa of Neodorippe astuta (Dorippidae) and Portunus pelagicus (Portunidae) (Brachyura: Decapoda). Marine Biology 106:347-354


PUBLICATIONS - IN PREPARATION

 

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Tudge, C.C., Scheltinga, D. M., Jamieson, B.G.M. and Guinot, D. (2007). Spermatozoal ultrastructure in the Majidae. (In preparation).
  3 Tudge, C.C., Lemaitre, R. and Schneider, K. (2007). Male sexual tube morphology in the hermit crab Catapagurus sharreri (Crustacea, Decapoda, Anomura, Paguridae): SEM observations. (In preparation).
  2 Mantelatto, F. L., Scelzo, M. A. And Tudge, C.C. (2007). Morphological and morphometric appraisal of the spermatophore of the southern hermit crab Isocheles sawayai (Anomura: Diogenidae) from the Brazilian coast. (In preparation).
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Tirelli, T., Campantico, E., Pessani, D. and Tudge, C.C. (2007). Reproductive biology of Mediterranean hermit crabs: male reproductive apparatus of Diogenes pugilator (Decapoda, Anomura). Journal of Crustacean Biology (In preparation).


Last Updated: 25-Oct-2006