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Overview

Thomas H. Cribb is affiliated with the University of Queensland in Australia. Their research predominantly focuses on Environmental Science with a notable emphasis on Ecology, Parasitology, and Nature and Landscape Conservation. The scientist's work covers diverse subfields including Small Animals and Global and Planetary Change.

The main topics addressed throughout their research include Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Parasites and Host Interactions more broadly, Helminth infection and control, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Turtle Biology and Conservation, and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

Thomas H. Cribb has published extensively in several peer-reviewed journals. Frequent publication venues include:

  • Systematic Parasitology (12 publications)
  • International Journal for Parasitology (10 publications)
  • Parasitology International (7 publications)
  • Journal of Helminthology (7 publications)
  • Parasite (3 publications)

Selected recent papers illustrate the range and depth of their research contributions:

  • A paradigm for the recognition of cryptic trematode species in tropical Indo-west Pacific fishes: the problematic genus Preptetos (Trematoda: Lepocreadiidae), 2021, International Journal for Parasitology
  • Molecular characterisation of acanthocephalans from Australian marine teleosts: proposal of a new family, synonymy of another and transfer of taxa between orders, 2020, Systematic Parasitology
  • Checklist of the parasites of coral reef fishes from French Polynesia, with considerations on their potential role in these fish communities, 2022, Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland)
  • Gorgocephalidae (Digenea: Lepocreadioidea) in the Indo-West Pacific: new species, life-cycle data and perspectives on species delineation over geographic range, 2021, Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
  • First elucidation of a didymozoid life cycle: Saccularina magnacetabula n. gen. n. sp. infecting an arcid bivalve, 2022, International Journal for Parasitology

The scientist frequently collaborates with other experts in their field. Notable coauthors include:

  • Scott C. Cutmore
  • Nicholas Q.-X. Wee
  • Daniel C. Huston
  • Rodney A. Bray
  • Russell Q.-Y. Yong

Best Publications

  • The magnitude of global marine species diversity

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

  • Phylogeny and classification of the Digenea (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda).

    P.D. Olson;T.H. Cribb;V.V. Tkach;V.V. Tkach;R.A. Bray

  • The Use and Implications of Ribosomal DNA Sequencing for the Discrimination of Digenean Species

    Matthew J Nolan;Thomas H Cribb

  • Life Cycle Evolution in the Digenea: a New Perspective from Phylogeny

    T. H. Cribb;R. A. Bray;P. D. Olson;D. T. J. Littlewood

  • Gut wash, body soak, blender and heat-fixation: approaches to the effective collection, fixation and preservation of trematodes of fishes.

    Thomas H. Cribb;Rodney A. Bray

  • A DNA-based demonstration of a three-host life-cycle for the Bivesiculidae (Platyhelminthes : Digenea)

    Thomas H Cribb;Glenn R anderson;Robert D Adlard;Rodney A Bray

  • Comparison of the second internal transcribed spacer (Ribosomal DNA) from populations and species of fasciolidae (Digenea)

    Robert D. Adlard;Stephen C. Barker;David Blair;Thomas H. Cribb

  • Trematode life cycles: short is sweet?

    Robert Poulin;Thomas H. Cribb

  • A new PCR-based approach indicates the range of Clonorchis sinensis now extends to Central Thailand.

    Rebecca J. Traub;Julie Macaranas;Mathirut Mungthin;Saovanee Leelayoova

  • The nature and evolution of the association among digeneans, molluscs and fishes.

    T.H. Cribb;R.A. Bray;D.T.J. Littlewood

  • Diseases of tunas, Thunnus spp.

    B L Munday;Y Sawada;T Cribb;C J Hayward

  • Diversity in the Monogenea and Digenea: does lifestyle matter?

    Thomas H Cribb;Leslie A Chisholm;Rodney A Bray

  • The phylogeny of the Lepocreadioidea (Platyhelminthes, Digenea) inferred from nuclear and mitochondrial genes: Implications for their systematics and evolution

    Rodney A. Bray;Andrea Waeschenbach;Thomas H. Cribb;Gareth D. Weedall

  • Lesions caused by cardiovascular flukes (Digenea : Spirorchidae) in stranded green turtles (Chelonia mydas)

    A. N. Gordon;W. R. Kelly;T. H. Cribb

  • The life cycle of Cardicola forsteri (Trematoda: Aporocotylidae), a pathogen of ranched southern bluefin tuna, Thunnus maccoyi

    Thomas H. Cribb;Robert D. Adlard;Craig J. Hayward;Craig J. Hayward;Nathan J. Bott

  • Digeneans of the family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925 from the southern Great Barrier Reef, including a new genus and three new species

    Rodney A. Bray;Thomas H. Cribb

  • Species accumulation curves and their applications in parasite ecology

    Alistair D.M. Dove;Thomas H. Cribb

  • Phylogenetic relationships of some common Indo-Pacific snappers (Perciformes: Lutjanidae) based on mitochondrial DNA sequences, with comments on the taxonomic position of the Caesioninae.

    Terrence L. Miller;Thomas H. Cribb

  • Family Opecoelidae Ozaki, 1925

    T. H. Cribb

  • A new blood-fluke, Cardicola Forsteri, (Digenea : Sanguinicolidae) of southern blue-fin tuna (Thunnus Maccoyii) in aquaculture

    TH Cribb;M Daintith;BL Munday

  • An exceptionally rich complex of Sanguinicolidae von Graff, 1907 (Platyhelminthes: Trematoda) from Siganidae, Labridae and Mullidae (Teleostei: Perciformes) from the Indo-West Pacific Region

    Matthew J. Nolan;Thomas H. Cribb

Frequent Co-Authors

Rodney A. Bray
Rodney A. Bray Natural History Museum
Stephen C. Barker
Stephen C. Barker University of Queensland
Matthew J. Nolan
Matthew J. Nolan Royal Veterinary College
Robert D. Adlard
Robert D. Adlard Queensland Museum
Alexandra S. Grutter
Alexandra S. Grutter University of Queensland
Pierre Sasal
Pierre Sasal University of Perpignan
Aaron R. Jex
Aaron R. Jex Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research
D. T. J. Littlewood
D. T. J. Littlewood Natural History Museum
Malcolm K. Jones
Malcolm K. Jones University of Queensland
Michael B. Bennett
Michael B. Bennett University of Queensland

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