James Cosmo Melvill

James Cosmo Melvill (1845–1929), British botanist, phycologist, naturalist, malacologist and entomologist.

IPNI standard form: Melvill

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• 4 taxon names authored by James Cosmo Melvill

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• Melvill, J. C., 1873. Description of Lycaena arthurus, a new European butterfly. Ent. mon. Mag. 9: 263. Reference page. 

• & Standen, R. 1895. Notes on a collection of shells from Lifu and Uvea, Loyalty Islands, formed by the Rev. James and Mrs. Hadfield, with list of species. Journal of conchology 8(3-4): 84–132. BHL Reference page. 

• & Ponsonby J.H. 1898. A contribution towards a check-list of the non-marine molluscan fauna of South Africa. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3: 166–186. BHL Reference page. 
• & Ponsonby J.H. 1898. Descriptions of ten new species of terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 1(1): 24–29. BHL Reference page. 
• & Standen, R. 1898. The Marine Mollusca of Madras and the immediate Neighbourhood - Part I. Journal of conchology 9: 30–48. Reference page. 
• & Standen, R. 1898. The Marine Mollusca of Madras and the immediate Neighbourhood - Part II. Journal of conchology 9: 75–85. Reference page. 
• & Standen, R. 1898. Notes on a collection of marine shells from Lively Island, Falklands, with list of species. Journal of conchology 9: 97–105. Reference page. 
• & Standen, R. 1898. Herviera, a new genus of Pyramidellidae. Journal of conchology 9: 185. Reference page. 
• & Sykes, E.R. 1898. Notes on a second collection of marine shells from the Andaman islands, with descriptions of new forms of Terebra. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3: 35–48. BHL Reference page. 
• & Sykes, E.R. 1898. Notes on a third collection of marine shells from the Andaman Islands with the description of new species of Mitra. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 3: 220–229. BHL Reference page. 
• 1898. Further Investigations Into the Molluscan Fauna of the Arabian Sea, Persian Gulf, and Gulf of Oman: With Descriptions of Forty Species. Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society 42(4): 1-40. BHL
• 1898. A brief bibliographical résumé of the Erythraean Molluscan fauna, with descriptions of sixteen species from Aden. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7) 1(8): 125–130. BHL

• & Standen, R. 1899. Report on the Marine Mollusca obtained during the First Expedition of Prof. A.C. Haddon to the Torres Straits, in 1888–89. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology 27: 150–206. BHL Reference page. 

• & Standen, R. 1900. Report on the Mollusca of the "Jackson-Harmsworth" Expedition to Franz-Josef Land (1896-97), and of the "Andrew Coats" Cruise (1898) to Kolguev, etc. Memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester Literary & Philosophical Society 44(4): 1–14. BHL Reference page.