Jane Melville

Jane Melville, Australian herpetologist.

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(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.
Melville, J., Shoo, L.P. & Doughty, P. 2008. Phylogenetic relationships of the heath dragons (Rankinia adelaidensis and R. parviceps) from the south-western Australian biodiversity hotspot. Australian Journal of Zoology 56(3): 159–171. DOI: 10.1071/ZO07069 Reference page.

Edwards, D.L. & Melville, J. 2011. Extensive phylogeographic and morphological diversity in Diporiphora nobbi (Agamidae) leads to a taxonomic review and a new species description. Journal of Herpetology 45(4): 530–546. DOI: 10.1670/10-115.1 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.

Couper, P.J., Melville, J., Emmott, A. & Chapple, S.N.J. 2012. A new species of Diporiphora from the Goneaway Tablelands of Western Queensland. Zootaxa 3556(1): 39–54. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3556.1.2 Reference page.
Doughty, P., Kealley, L. & Melville, J. 2012. Taxonomic assessment of Diporiphora (Reptilia: Agamidae) dragon lizards from the western arid zone of Australia. Zootaxa 3518(1): 1–24. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3518.1.1 Reference page.

Melville, J., Smith, K., Hobson, R., Hunjan, S. & Shoo, L. 2014. The Role of Integrative Taxonomy in the Conservation Management of Cryptic Species: The Taxonomic Status of Endangered Earless Dragons (Agamidae: Tympanocryptis) in the Grasslands of Queensland, Australia. PLoS One 9(7): e101847. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0101847 Reference page.
Oliver, P.M., Laver, R.J., Melville, J. & Doughty, P. 2014. A new species of velvet gecko (Oedura: Diplodactylidae) from the limestone ranges of the southern Kimberley, Western Australia. Zootaxa 3873(1): 49–61. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3873.1.4 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.

Hamdan, B., Guedes, T.B., Carrasco, P.A. & Melville, J. 2020. A complex biogeographic history of diversification in Neotropical lancehead pitvipers (Serpentes, Viperidae). Zoologica Scripta 49: 145–158. DOI: 10.1111/j.1463-6409.2011.00511.x Reference page.

Chaplin, K., Wilson, S.K., Sumner, J. & Melville, J. 2023. Three new species of north-eastern Australian earless dragons (Agamidae: Tympanocryptis). Australian Journal of Taxonomy 33: 1–15. DOI: 10.54102/ajt.vn9bw Reference page.

Parkin, T., Rowley, J.J.L., Elliott-Tate, J., Mahony, M.J., Sumner, J., Melville, J. & Donnellan, S.C. 2024. Systematic assessment of the brown tree frog (Anura: Pelodryadidae: Litoria ewingii) reveals two endemic species in South Australia. Zootaxa 5406(1): 1–36. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5406.1.1 Reference page.