Christopher Tudge

Tudge has published more than 70 papers in international scientific journals on aspects of crustacean ecology, evolution, and reproduction with colleagues at the Smithsonian Institution and with coauthors in Australia, Japan, France, Argentina, Italy, Brazil and Iran. He is a current member, and was the past President, of the Crustacean Society, an international society of crustacean biologists. He is also an active member of the Brazilian Crustacean Society and the International Society for Invertebrate Reproduction and Development. Tudge has presented talks or posters, or chaired sessions, on crustacean reproductive morphology and evolution at more than 50 national and international venues. He is a past Research Associate in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology at the National Museum of Natural History of the Smithsonian Institution, is the current Editor-in-Chief for the crustacean journal Nauplius, and is on the Editorial Board of the Iranian Journal of Animal Diversity. Tudge has recently described and named several new species of marine mud shrimp from the Gulf waters of Iran. He has a hermit crab species named for him, which he discovered as new to science on a reef in Belize.

Areas of expertise: Reproductive biology, marine zoology, crustacean reproduction and taxonomy, crustacean evolution, biology of birds.