John Read le Brockton Tomlin (15 August 1864 – 24 December 1954) was a British malacologist.[1] He was one of the founders of the Malacological Society of London and was president of the Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland on two separate occasions.[2]
Tomlin named more than a hundred taxa of gastropod molluscs, including:
- The family Abyssochrysoidea Tomlin, 1927
- The family Columbariidae Tomlin, 1928
He also named some scaphopods and bivalves.
- ^ Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009). 2,400 years of malacology, 6th ed., 830 pp. & 32 pp. [Annex of Collations]. American Malacological Society
- ^ "J. R. le B. Tomlin, 1864–1954". Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland. accessed 4 October 2010.