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Mr Jonathan Ablett

Mr Jon Ablett

Senior Curator in Charge, Mollusca

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Invertebrates Division
Specialisms: Cephalopods, Land and Freshwater Molluscs (slugs, snails and bivalves)
Contact: email
Phone: 0207 942 5996

Summary

I am responsible for the curation of the terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca plus the Cephalopod collections within the Mollusc group in the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum (NHM). The Mollusca collections contain an estimated 7 million specimens (including 60,000 primary types) and the taxa within my care account for around 40% of this collection (2.8 million specimens). My responsibilities include the general care, curation, preservation, reorganisation and loaning of the dry and spirit collections under my care, and the identification, data-basing, preservation, and accession of new material. I am in charge of answering enquiries and supervising visitors (scientific, commercial and the general), and am heavily involved with associated exhibition and public engagement projects within my taxa expertise.

My current research interests include:

Vietnamese land snail diversity

Land snails of the Western Ghats, India

The neo-tropical superfamily Orthalocoidea

Producing type catalogues of material housed in the NHM

New Molluscan Names introduced by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen

Using micro-CT scanning to reconstruct soft tissue anatomy in gastropods.

In 2004 a giant squid (Architeuthis dux, Steenstrup in Harting 1860) was caught by the Falkland Islands registered trawler 'John Cheek' off the coast of the Falkland Islands. The Captain of the ship gave it to the research station on the Falkland Islands who donated it to the Natural History Museum on the provision that it was put on public display. The squid was 8.62m in length and was the largest 'wet' specimen ever preserved at the NHM. As curator in charge of Cephalopoda it was my responsibility to design, manage and implement the preservation, storage and display of this enormous creature.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BSc. (Hons.), Cardiff University, Wales, 1998 - 2002

Employment history

    Academic

  • Senior Curator non-marine Mollusca and Cephalopoda, Natural History Museum, Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2015 - ongoing
  • Curator non-marine Mollusca and Cephalopoda, Natural History Museum, London, Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2015
  • Research assistant (Lower Vertebrates), Natural History Museum, London, Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2003
  • Assistant Curator, Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London, United Kingdom, 2002 - 2003

Grants

Great British Mollusca Types
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: John Ellerman Foundation
Total value £92,950 (to Museum £24,515.20)
Dates: 2016 - 2018

Fieldwork

United Kindgom
2013 - 2013.

Vietnam
2013 - on going.

Vietnam
2012 - on going.

Vietnam
2011 - on going.

Thailand & Vietnam
2007 - on going.

Committees

President, Malacological Society of London, 2021 - on going.

The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland – Council Member (2015 – 2017), 2015 - on going.

Other, The Malacological Society of London – Awards Officer (2015 – 2021t), 2015 - 2021.

Memberships

Council member, 2011 - on going.

Member, The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 2011 - on going.

Member, Natural Sciences Collections Association, 2003 - on going.

Editorships

Subject editor, Basteria, 2020 - on going.

Events

Conference Attendance

Organiser, Session chair, European Malacological Congress 2014, (Conference),

Organiser, Poster presentation, Session chair, Molluscan Forum 2014, (Conference),

Attendee/participant, Poster presentation, 7th Congress of the European Malacological Societies, (Conference),

Organiser, Session chair, Molluscan Forum 2013, (Conference),

Organiser, Session chair, Molluscan Forum 2012, (Conference),

Organiser, Molluscan Forum 2011, (Conference),

Internal Positions

Council Member, The Malacological Society of London, 2011 - on going.

Publications

preece R, White TS, Raheem D, Ketchum H, Ablett J, Taylor H, webb K, Naggs F (2022) William Benson and the golden age of malacology in British India Biography, illustrated catalogue and evaluation of his molluscan types. Tropical Natural History, Supplement 6 : 1 - 434.

Breure ASH, Ablett J (2022) Morelet’s contributions to malacology: further additions and corrections. Basteria, 86 (1) : 44 - 47.

Kadolsky D, Ablett J (2022) HELIX INCRASSATA KLEIN, 1853 (MAY) IS NOT A JUNIOR PRIMARY HOMONYM OF HELIX INCRASSATA REEVE, 1853 (FEBRUARY) (GASTROPODA: HELICOIDEA). Journal of conchology, 44 (3) : 227 - 230.

Páll-Gergely B, Ablett JD, Szabó M, Neubert E (2022) Revision of the “ Chloritis delibrata (Benson, 1836)” group (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Camaenidae). ZooKeys, 1086 : 1 - 31. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1086.77180

Kadolsky D, Ablett J (2022) HELIX INCRASSATA KLEIN, 1853 (MAY) IS NOT A JUNIOR PRIMARY HOMONYM OF HELIX INCRASSATA REEVE, 1853 (FEBRUARY) (GASTROPODA: HELICOIDEA). Journal of conchology, 44 (3) : 227 - 230.

Breure A, Ablett J (2021) Morelet’s contributions to malacology: additions and corrections. Basteria, 85 (2) : 157 - 161.

Breure A, Ablett J, Guillén AG, Lee H (2021) The rediscovery of Müller’s type material: resolution of the status of Buccinum zebra O.F. Müller, 1774, with additional notes on Buccinum fasciatum O.F. Müller, 1774 and Helix exilis O.F. Müller, 1774 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicidae, Ariophantidae). Basteria, 85 (2) : 109 - 115.

Szekeres M, Grego J, Pall-Gergely B, Ablett J (2021) Clausiliidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from India, Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the collection of the Natural History Museum London. Journal of conchology, 44 (2) : 155 - 197.

Jirapatrasilp P, Ablett JD, Panha S, Sutcharit C (2021) Clarification on the name-bearing type designation of several cyclophorid species (Mollusca, Gastropoda) by H. H. Godwin-Austen (1915). ZooKeys, 1049 : 43 - 66. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1049.66842

Sutcharit C, Naggs F, Ablett JD, Sang PV, Van Hao L, Panha S (2021) Anatomical note on a tree snail Amphidromus (Amphidromus) cambojiensis (Reeve, 1860) from Vietnam (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae). Journal of Natural History, 55 (17-18) : 1059 - 1069. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1933230

Jesus MD, Sales JBDL, Martins RS, Ready JS, Costa TAS, Ablett JD, Schiavetti A (null) Traditional Knowledge Aids Description When Resolving the Taxonomic Status of Unsettled Species Using Classical and Molecular Taxonomy: The Case of the Shallow-Water Octopus Callistoctopus furvus (Gould, 1852) From the Western Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7 : doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.595244

Villanueva R, Laptikhovsky VV, Piertney SB, Fernández-Álvarez FÁ, Collins MA, Ablett JD, Escánez A (2020) Extended Pelagic Life in a Bathybenthic Octopus. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7 : doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.561125

Breure ASH, Ablett J, Audibert C (2020) A proposed solution to a lengthy dispute: what is Leptinaria (uni)lamellata (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Achatinidae)?. Folia Conchyliologica, 58 : 23 - 31.

Páll-Gergely B, Sajan S, Tripathy B, Meng K, Asami T, Ablett JD (null) Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda, Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalogue. ZooKeys, 981 : 1 - 220. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.981.53583

Salvador RB, Ablett JD (null) Type specimens of Streptaxidae from Henry C. Burnup in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. African Invertebrates, 61 (2) : 107 - 117. doi: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.61.58085

Neubert E, Breure ASH, Ablett JD, Bank RA (2020) The malacological contributions of Carl Georg Ludwig Pfeiffer (1805–1877): a bibliography, with a collation of the publication dates of the Malakozoologische Blätter. Archiv für Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology, 149 (1) : 75 - 102. doi: 10.1127/arch.moll/149/2020/75

Páll-Gergely B, Hunyadi A, Otani JU, Ablett JD, Schilthuizen M (2020) First record of striking sexual dimorphism in two terrestrial caenogastropods. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 86 (3) : 254 - 258. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyaa005

Golikov AV, Ceia FR, Sabirov RM, Ablett JD, Gleadall IG, Gudmundsson G, Hoving HJ, Judkins H, Pálsson J, Reid AL, Rosas-Luis R, Shea EK, Schwarz R, Xavier JC (null) The first global deep-sea stable isotope assessment reveals the unique trophic ecology of Vampire Squid Vampyroteuthis infernalis (Cephalopoda). Scientific Reports, 9 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55719-1

BROOK FREDJ, Ablett JONATHAND (2019) Type material of land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) described from New Zealand by taxonomists in Europe and North America between 1830 and 1934, and the history of research on the New Zealand land snail fauna from 1824 to 1917. Zootaxa, 4697 (1) : 1 - 117. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4697.1.1

Sutcharit C, Naggs F, Ablett J, Sang PV, Hao LV, Panha S (2019) Notes on the sinistral helicoid snail Bertia cambojiensis (Reeve, 1860) from Vietnam (Eupulmonata, Dyakiidae). ZooKeys, 885 : 1 - 14. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.885.38980

von Oheimb KCM, von Oheimb PV, Hirano T, Do TV, Ablett J, Luong HV, Pham SV, Naggs F (null) Cryptic diversity of limestone karst inhabiting land snails (Cyclophorus spp.) in northern Vietnam, their evolutionary history and the description of four new species. PLOS ONE, 14 (10) : e0222163 - e0222163. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222163

Sutcharit C, Ablett JD, Panha S (null) An annotated type catalogue of seven genera of operculate land snails (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 842 : 1 - 65. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.842.29243

BREURE ASH, ABLETT JD (null) An ironic twist of fate: replacement name for Stenogyra gracilenta Morelet, 1885, not Achatina gracilenta Morelet, 1867 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Achatinidae). Zootaxa, 4418 (3) : 299 - 299. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.3.8

von Oheimb PV, von Oheimb KCM, Hirano T, Do TV, Luong HV, Ablett J, Pham SV, Naggs F (2018) Competition matters: Determining the drivers of land snail community assembly among limestone karst areas in northern Vietnam. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (8) : 4136 - 4149. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3984

Ablett J, Gallichan J, Holmes A, Oliver G, Rowson B, Salvador A, Turner J, Wood H (2018) Mollusca Types in Great Britain: founding a union database. Journal of Natural Science Collections, 6 : 15 - 30.

Breure ASH, Audibert C, Ablett J (2018) Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809-1892) and his contributions to malacology. Netherlands Malacological Society : 1 - 544.

Książkiewicz-Parulska Z, Ablett JD (null) Microspatial distribution of molluscs and response of species to litter moisture, water levels and eutrophication in moist, alkaline ecosystems. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 147 (1) : doi: 10.26496/bjz.2017.3

Raheem DC, Backeljau T, Pearce-Kelly P, Taylor H, Fenn J, Sutcharit C, Panha S, von Oheimb KCM, von Oheimb PV, Ikebe C, Pall-Gergely B, Gargominy O, Hao LV, Sang PV, Tu DV, Phong DT, Naggs M, Ablett J, Mackenzie-Dodds JA, Wade CM, Naggs F (2017) An Illustrated Guide to the Land Snails and Slugs of Vietnam. :

Rowson B, Wood H, Ablett J, Gallichan J, Turner J, Holmes A, Oliver G, Salvador A (2017) Great British Mollusca Types Project: a union data database for the U.K.. Presented at NatSCA Conference & AGM 2017, Cambridge.

Breure ASH, Ablett J (2016) The ‘Demange drawings’: known and unknown malacological contribu- tions of Victor Demange (1870-1940). Folia Conchyliologica, 36 : 1 - 9.

Książkiewicz-Parulska Z, Ablett JD (2016) Investigating the influence of habitat type and weather conditions on the population dynamics of land snails Vertigo angustior Jeffreys, 1830 and Vertigo moulinsiana (Dupuy, 1849). A case study from western Poland. Journal of Natural History, 50 (27-28) : 1749 - 1758. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1156178

Oheimb PV, Oheimb KCM, Ablett J, naggs FCN (2016) Convergent evolution of shell shape in Cyclophorus spp. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae) from Vietnam. Presented at Molluscan Forum.

Oheimb PV, Oheimb KCM, Ablett J, Naggs (2016) Vietnam's biodiverse limestone karst outcrops: Do they harbour cryptic Cyclophorus species. Presented at World Congress of Malacology.

Oheimb PV, Oheimb KCM, Ablett J, Naggs (2016) Diversity and distribution of door snails around the Red River in Vietnam. Presented at World Congress of Malacology.

Oheimb PV, Oheimb KCM, Ablett J, Naggs F (2016) Community assembly among limestone karst areas – Insights from Vietnamese land snails. Presented at Molluscan Forum.

Panha S, Sutcharit C, Ablett J, Tongkerd P, Naggs F (null) Illustrated type catalogue of Amphidromus Albers, 1850 in the Natural History Museum, London, and descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys, 492 : 49 - 105. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.492.8641

Páll-Gergely B, Hunyadi A, Ablett J, Văn Lương H, Naggs F, Asami T (null) Systematics of the family Plectopylidae in Vietnam with additional information on Chinese taxa (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Stylommatophora). ZooKeys, 473 : 1 - 118. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.473.8659

Breure ASH, Ablett JD (null) Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 470 : 17 - 143. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.470.8548

Walker A, Ablett J, Sykes D, Rücklin M, Breure ASH (2014) Using micro-CT for 3D visualisations of terrestrial snail soft tissue anatomy. Presented at Molluscan Forum 2014.

Panha S, Nantarat N, Sutcharit C, Tongkerd P, Ablett J, Naggs F (null) An annotated catalogue of type specimens of the land snail genus Cyclophorus Monfort, 1810 (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 411 : 1 - 56. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.411.7258

Raheem DC, Ablett J, Taylor H, Preece RC, Aravind NA, Naggs FC (2014) A Systematic Revision of the Land Snails of the Western Ghats of India. Chulalongkorn University : 1 - 294.

Breure A, Ablett J (null) Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 392 : 1 - 367. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.392.6328

Oheimb, PT , Heiler CM, Ablett J, Naggs FC (2013) Terrestrial gastropods of Vietnam. Patterns of Diversity and Distribution’ Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution Meeting. Presented at Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution Meeting.

Ablett J (2012) Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857: The Giant Squid. Preservation & Display. Presented at Molluscan Forum 2012.

Ablett J (2012) The Giant Squid, Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda): The Making of an Iconic Specimen. NatSCA News, 23 : 16 - 20.

Breure A, Ablett J (null) Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 182 : 1 - 70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.182.2720

Breure ASH, Ablett JD (2011) Annotated type catalogue of the Amphibulimidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London.. ZooKeys, 1 - 52. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.138.1847

Gower DJ, Ablett JD (2006) Counting ventral scales in Asian anilioid snakes. HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 16 (3) : 259 - 263.

Gower DJ, Ablett JD (2002) Scale surface micro- ornamentation in some burrowing snakes. The Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, 18 - 18.

Introduction

Summary

I am responsible for the curation of the terrestrial and freshwater Mollusca plus the Cephalopod collections within the Mollusc group in the Department of Life Sciences at the Natural History Museum (NHM). The Mollusca collections contain an estimated 7 million specimens (including 60,000 primary types) and the taxa within my care account for around 40% of this collection (2.8 million specimens). My responsibilities include the general care, curation, preservation, reorganisation and loaning of the dry and spirit collections under my care, and the identification, data-basing, preservation, and accession of new material. I am in charge of answering enquiries and supervising visitors (scientific, commercial and the general), and am heavily involved with associated exhibition and public engagement projects within my taxa expertise.

My current research interests include:

Vietnamese land snail diversity

Land snails of the Western Ghats, India

The neo-tropical superfamily Orthalocoidea

Producing type catalogues of material housed in the NHM

New Molluscan Names introduced by Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen

Using micro-CT scanning to reconstruct soft tissue anatomy in gastropods.

In 2004 a giant squid (Architeuthis dux, Steenstrup in Harting 1860) was caught by the Falkland Islands registered trawler 'John Cheek' off the coast of the Falkland Islands. The Captain of the ship gave it to the research station on the Falkland Islands who donated it to the Natural History Museum on the provision that it was put on public display. The squid was 8.62m in length and was the largest 'wet' specimen ever preserved at the NHM. As curator in charge of Cephalopoda it was my responsibility to design, manage and implement the preservation, storage and display of this enormous creature.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BSc. (Hons.), Cardiff University, Wales, 1998 - 2002

Employment history

    Academic

  • Senior Curator non-marine Mollusca and Cephalopoda, Natural History Museum, Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2015 - ongoing
  • Curator non-marine Mollusca and Cephalopoda, Natural History Museum, London, Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2015
  • Research assistant (Lower Vertebrates), Natural History Museum, London, Life Sciences, United Kingdom, 2003 - 2003
  • Assistant Curator, Grant Museum of Zoology, University College London, United Kingdom, 2002 - 2003
Projects

Grants

Great British Mollusca Types
Role: Principal investigator
Funding: John Ellerman Foundation
Total value £92,950 (to Museum £24,515.20)
Dates: 2016 - 2018

Fieldwork

United Kindgom
2013 - 2013.

Vietnam
2013 - on going.

Vietnam
2012 - on going.

Vietnam
2011 - on going.

Thailand & Vietnam
2007 - on going.

Professional activities

Committees

President, Malacological Society of London, 2021 - on going.

The Conchological Society of Great Britain and Ireland – Council Member (2015 – 2017), 2015 - on going.

Other, The Malacological Society of London – Awards Officer (2015 – 2021t), 2015 - 2021.

Memberships

Council member, 2011 - on going.

Member, The Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections, 2011 - on going.

Member, Natural Sciences Collections Association, 2003 - on going.

Editorships

Subject editor, Basteria, 2020 - on going.

Events

Conference Attendance

Organiser, Session chair, European Malacological Congress 2014, (Conference),

Organiser, Poster presentation, Session chair, Molluscan Forum 2014, (Conference),

Attendee/participant, Poster presentation, 7th Congress of the European Malacological Societies, (Conference),

Organiser, Session chair, Molluscan Forum 2013, (Conference),

Organiser, Session chair, Molluscan Forum 2012, (Conference),

Organiser, Molluscan Forum 2011, (Conference),

Internal Positions

Council Member, The Malacological Society of London, 2011 - on going.

Publications

Publications

preece R, White TS, Raheem D, Ketchum H, Ablett J, Taylor H, webb K, Naggs F (2022) William Benson and the golden age of malacology in British India Biography, illustrated catalogue and evaluation of his molluscan types. Tropical Natural History, Supplement 6 : 1 - 434.

Breure ASH, Ablett J (2022) Morelet’s contributions to malacology: further additions and corrections. Basteria, 86 (1) : 44 - 47.

Kadolsky D, Ablett J (2022) HELIX INCRASSATA KLEIN, 1853 (MAY) IS NOT A JUNIOR PRIMARY HOMONYM OF HELIX INCRASSATA REEVE, 1853 (FEBRUARY) (GASTROPODA: HELICOIDEA). Journal of conchology, 44 (3) : 227 - 230.

Páll-Gergely B, Ablett JD, Szabó M, Neubert E (2022) Revision of the “ Chloritis delibrata (Benson, 1836)” group (Gastropoda, Stylommatophora, Camaenidae). ZooKeys, 1086 : 1 - 31. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1086.77180

Kadolsky D, Ablett J (2022) HELIX INCRASSATA KLEIN, 1853 (MAY) IS NOT A JUNIOR PRIMARY HOMONYM OF HELIX INCRASSATA REEVE, 1853 (FEBRUARY) (GASTROPODA: HELICOIDEA). Journal of conchology, 44 (3) : 227 - 230.

Breure A, Ablett J (2021) Morelet’s contributions to malacology: additions and corrections. Basteria, 85 (2) : 157 - 161.

Breure A, Ablett J, Guillén AG, Lee H (2021) The rediscovery of Müller’s type material: resolution of the status of Buccinum zebra O.F. Müller, 1774, with additional notes on Buccinum fasciatum O.F. Müller, 1774 and Helix exilis O.F. Müller, 1774 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicidae, Ariophantidae). Basteria, 85 (2) : 109 - 115.

Szekeres M, Grego J, Pall-Gergely B, Ablett J (2021) Clausiliidae (Gastropoda: Pulmonata) from India, Myanmar, Pakistan and Sri Lanka in the collection of the Natural History Museum London. Journal of conchology, 44 (2) : 155 - 197.

Jirapatrasilp P, Ablett JD, Panha S, Sutcharit C (2021) Clarification on the name-bearing type designation of several cyclophorid species (Mollusca, Gastropoda) by H. H. Godwin-Austen (1915). ZooKeys, 1049 : 43 - 66. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1049.66842

Sutcharit C, Naggs F, Ablett JD, Sang PV, Van Hao L, Panha S (2021) Anatomical note on a tree snail Amphidromus (Amphidromus) cambojiensis (Reeve, 1860) from Vietnam (Eupulmonata: Camaenidae). Journal of Natural History, 55 (17-18) : 1059 - 1069. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2021.1933230

Jesus MD, Sales JBDL, Martins RS, Ready JS, Costa TAS, Ablett JD, Schiavetti A (null) Traditional Knowledge Aids Description When Resolving the Taxonomic Status of Unsettled Species Using Classical and Molecular Taxonomy: The Case of the Shallow-Water Octopus Callistoctopus furvus (Gould, 1852) From the Western Atlantic Ocean. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7 : doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.595244

Villanueva R, Laptikhovsky VV, Piertney SB, Fernández-Álvarez FÁ, Collins MA, Ablett JD, Escánez A (2020) Extended Pelagic Life in a Bathybenthic Octopus. Frontiers in Marine Science, 7 : doi: 10.3389/fmars.2020.561125

Breure ASH, Ablett J, Audibert C (2020) A proposed solution to a lengthy dispute: what is Leptinaria (uni)lamellata (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Achatinidae)?. Folia Conchyliologica, 58 : 23 - 31.

Páll-Gergely B, Sajan S, Tripathy B, Meng K, Asami T, Ablett JD (null) Genus-level revision of the Alycaeidae (Gastropoda, Cyclophoroidea), with an annotated species catalogue. ZooKeys, 981 : 1 - 220. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.981.53583

Salvador RB, Ablett JD (null) Type specimens of Streptaxidae from Henry C. Burnup in the collection of the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa. African Invertebrates, 61 (2) : 107 - 117. doi: 10.3897/afrinvertebr.61.58085

Neubert E, Breure ASH, Ablett JD, Bank RA (2020) The malacological contributions of Carl Georg Ludwig Pfeiffer (1805–1877): a bibliography, with a collation of the publication dates of the Malakozoologische Blätter. Archiv für Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology, 149 (1) : 75 - 102. doi: 10.1127/arch.moll/149/2020/75

Páll-Gergely B, Hunyadi A, Otani JU, Ablett JD, Schilthuizen M (2020) First record of striking sexual dimorphism in two terrestrial caenogastropods. Journal of Molluscan Studies, 86 (3) : 254 - 258. doi: 10.1093/mollus/eyaa005

Golikov AV, Ceia FR, Sabirov RM, Ablett JD, Gleadall IG, Gudmundsson G, Hoving HJ, Judkins H, Pálsson J, Reid AL, Rosas-Luis R, Shea EK, Schwarz R, Xavier JC (null) The first global deep-sea stable isotope assessment reveals the unique trophic ecology of Vampire Squid Vampyroteuthis infernalis (Cephalopoda). Scientific Reports, 9 (1) : doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-55719-1

BROOK FREDJ, Ablett JONATHAND (2019) Type material of land snails (Mollusca: Gastropoda) described from New Zealand by taxonomists in Europe and North America between 1830 and 1934, and the history of research on the New Zealand land snail fauna from 1824 to 1917. Zootaxa, 4697 (1) : 1 - 117. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4697.1.1

Sutcharit C, Naggs F, Ablett J, Sang PV, Hao LV, Panha S (2019) Notes on the sinistral helicoid snail Bertia cambojiensis (Reeve, 1860) from Vietnam (Eupulmonata, Dyakiidae). ZooKeys, 885 : 1 - 14. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.885.38980

von Oheimb KCM, von Oheimb PV, Hirano T, Do TV, Ablett J, Luong HV, Pham SV, Naggs F (null) Cryptic diversity of limestone karst inhabiting land snails (Cyclophorus spp.) in northern Vietnam, their evolutionary history and the description of four new species. PLOS ONE, 14 (10) : e0222163 - e0222163. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0222163

Sutcharit C, Ablett JD, Panha S (null) An annotated type catalogue of seven genera of operculate land snails (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 842 : 1 - 65. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.842.29243

BREURE ASH, ABLETT JD (null) An ironic twist of fate: replacement name for Stenogyra gracilenta Morelet, 1885, not Achatina gracilenta Morelet, 1867 (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Achatinidae). Zootaxa, 4418 (3) : 299 - 299. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4418.3.8

von Oheimb PV, von Oheimb KCM, Hirano T, Do TV, Luong HV, Ablett J, Pham SV, Naggs F (2018) Competition matters: Determining the drivers of land snail community assembly among limestone karst areas in northern Vietnam. Ecology and Evolution, 8 (8) : 4136 - 4149. doi: 10.1002/ece3.3984

Ablett J, Gallichan J, Holmes A, Oliver G, Rowson B, Salvador A, Turner J, Wood H (2018) Mollusca Types in Great Britain: founding a union database. Journal of Natural Science Collections, 6 : 15 - 30.

Breure ASH, Audibert C, Ablett J (2018) Pierre Marie Arthur Morelet (1809-1892) and his contributions to malacology. Netherlands Malacological Society : 1 - 544.

Książkiewicz-Parulska Z, Ablett JD (null) Microspatial distribution of molluscs and response of species to litter moisture, water levels and eutrophication in moist, alkaline ecosystems. Belgian Journal of Zoology, 147 (1) : doi: 10.26496/bjz.2017.3

Raheem DC, Backeljau T, Pearce-Kelly P, Taylor H, Fenn J, Sutcharit C, Panha S, von Oheimb KCM, von Oheimb PV, Ikebe C, Pall-Gergely B, Gargominy O, Hao LV, Sang PV, Tu DV, Phong DT, Naggs M, Ablett J, Mackenzie-Dodds JA, Wade CM, Naggs F (2017) An Illustrated Guide to the Land Snails and Slugs of Vietnam. :

Rowson B, Wood H, Ablett J, Gallichan J, Turner J, Holmes A, Oliver G, Salvador A (2017) Great British Mollusca Types Project: a union data database for the U.K.. Presented at NatSCA Conference & AGM 2017, Cambridge.

Breure ASH, Ablett J (2016) The ‘Demange drawings’: known and unknown malacological contribu- tions of Victor Demange (1870-1940). Folia Conchyliologica, 36 : 1 - 9.

Książkiewicz-Parulska Z, Ablett JD (2016) Investigating the influence of habitat type and weather conditions on the population dynamics of land snails Vertigo angustior Jeffreys, 1830 and Vertigo moulinsiana (Dupuy, 1849). A case study from western Poland. Journal of Natural History, 50 (27-28) : 1749 - 1758. doi: 10.1080/00222933.2016.1156178

Oheimb PV, Oheimb KCM, Ablett J, naggs FCN (2016) Convergent evolution of shell shape in Cyclophorus spp. (Caenogastropoda: Cyclophoridae) from Vietnam. Presented at Molluscan Forum.

Oheimb PV, Oheimb KCM, Ablett J, Naggs (2016) Vietnam's biodiverse limestone karst outcrops: Do they harbour cryptic Cyclophorus species. Presented at World Congress of Malacology.

Oheimb PV, Oheimb KCM, Ablett J, Naggs (2016) Diversity and distribution of door snails around the Red River in Vietnam. Presented at World Congress of Malacology.

Oheimb PV, Oheimb KCM, Ablett J, Naggs F (2016) Community assembly among limestone karst areas – Insights from Vietnamese land snails. Presented at Molluscan Forum.

Panha S, Sutcharit C, Ablett J, Tongkerd P, Naggs F (null) Illustrated type catalogue of Amphidromus Albers, 1850 in the Natural History Museum, London, and descriptions of two new species. ZooKeys, 492 : 49 - 105. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.492.8641

Páll-Gergely B, Hunyadi A, Ablett J, Văn Lương H, Naggs F, Asami T (null) Systematics of the family Plectopylidae in Vietnam with additional information on Chinese taxa (Gastropoda, Pulmonata, Stylommatophora). ZooKeys, 473 : 1 - 118. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.473.8659

Breure ASH, Ablett JD (null) Annotated type catalogue of the Megaspiridae, Orthalicidae, and Simpulopsidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 470 : 17 - 143. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.470.8548

Walker A, Ablett J, Sykes D, Rücklin M, Breure ASH (2014) Using micro-CT for 3D visualisations of terrestrial snail soft tissue anatomy. Presented at Molluscan Forum 2014.

Panha S, Nantarat N, Sutcharit C, Tongkerd P, Ablett J, Naggs F (null) An annotated catalogue of type specimens of the land snail genus Cyclophorus Monfort, 1810 (Caenogastropoda, Cyclophoridae) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 411 : 1 - 56. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.411.7258

Raheem DC, Ablett J, Taylor H, Preece RC, Aravind NA, Naggs FC (2014) A Systematic Revision of the Land Snails of the Western Ghats of India. Chulalongkorn University : 1 - 294.

Breure A, Ablett J (null) Annotated type catalogue of the Bulimulidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 392 : 1 - 367. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.392.6328

Oheimb, PT , Heiler CM, Ablett J, Naggs FC (2013) Terrestrial gastropods of Vietnam. Patterns of Diversity and Distribution’ Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution Meeting. Presented at Southeast Asian Gateway Evolution Meeting.

Ablett J (2012) Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857: The Giant Squid. Preservation & Display. Presented at Molluscan Forum 2012.

Ablett J (2012) The Giant Squid, Architeuthis dux Steenstrup, 1857 (Mollusca: Cephalopoda): The Making of an Iconic Specimen. NatSCA News, 23 : 16 - 20.

Breure A, Ablett J (null) Annotated type catalogue of the Bothriembryontidae and Odontostomidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London. ZooKeys, 182 : 1 - 70. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.182.2720

Breure ASH, Ablett JD (2011) Annotated type catalogue of the Amphibulimidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Orthalicoidea) in the Natural History Museum, London.. ZooKeys, 1 - 52. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.138.1847

Gower DJ, Ablett JD (2006) Counting ventral scales in Asian anilioid snakes. HERPETOLOGICAL JOURNAL, 16 (3) : 259 - 263.

Gower DJ, Ablett JD (2002) Scale surface micro- ornamentation in some burrowing snakes. The Annual Symposium of Vertebrate Palaeontology and Comparative Anatomy, 18 - 18.