Jane Melville

Jane Melville, Australian herpetologist

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

(List may be incomplete)

Harmon, L.J., Melville, J., Larson, A. & Losos, J.B. 2008. The Role of Geography and Ecological Opportunity in the Diversification of Day Geckos (Phelsuma). Systematic Biology 57(4): 562–573. DOI: 10.1080/10635150802304779 Reference page.

Wagner, P., Melville, J., Wilms, T.M. & Schmitz, A. 2011. Opening a box of cryptic taxa – the first review of the North African desert lizards in the Trapelus mutabilis Merrem, 1820 complex (Squamata: Agamidae) with descriptions of new taxa. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 163(3): 884–912. DOI: 10.1111/j.1096-3642.2011.00726.x Reference page.

Doughty, P., Kealley, L., Shoo, L. & Melville, J. 2015. Revision of the Western Australian pebble-mimic dragon species-group (Tympanocryptis cephalus: Reptilia: Agamidae). Zootaxa 4039(1): 58–117. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4039.1.3. Preview (PDF) Full article (PDF). Reference page.

Melville, J., Ritchie, E.G., Chapple, S.N.J., Glor, R.E. & Schulte, J.A. 2018. Diversity in Australia’s tropical savannas: An integrative taxonomic revision of agamid lizards from the genera Amphibolurus and Lophognathus (Lacertilia: Agamidae). Memoirs of Museum Victoria 77: 41–61. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2018.77.04 Reference page.

Melville, J., Date, K.S., Horner, P. & Doughty, P. 2019. Taxonomic revision of dragon lizards in the genus Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) from the Australian monsoonal tropics. Memoirs of Museum Victoria 78: 23–55. DOI: 10.24199/j.mmv.2019.77.01 Reference page.
Melville, J., Chaplin, K., Hipsley, C.A., Sarre, S.D., Sumner, J. & Hutchinson, M. 2019. Integrating phylogeography and high-resolution X-ray CT reveals five new cryptic species and multiple hybrid zones among Australian earless dragons. Royal Society Open Science 6(12): 191166. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.191166 Reference page.
Melville, J., Chaplin, K., Hutchinson, M., Sumner, J., Gruber, B., MacDonald, A.J. & Sarre, S.D. 2019. Taxonomy and conservation of grassland earless dragons: new species and an assessment of the first possible extinction of a reptile on mainland Australia. Royal Society Open Science 6(5): 190233. DOI: 10.1098/rsos.190233 Reference page.