{{short description|American malacologist (1936–2016)}} {{Infobox scientist | name = James Hamilton McLean | birth_date = {{Birth date|1936|6|17}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|2016|11|11|1936|6|17}} | fields = Malacology | workplaces = Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County | known_for = Marine gastropods; hydrothermal vent limpets | author_abbrev_bot = McLean }} '''James Hamilton McLean''' (17 June 1936 – 11 November 2016)<ref>Coan E. V., Kabat A. R. & Petit R. E. (15 February 2009) [http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.php ''2,400 years of Malacology''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111161316/http://www.malacological.org/publications/2400_malacology.php |date=2012-11-11 }} (6th Edition).</ref> was an American [[malacologist]] (a [[biologist]] who studies [[mollusk]]s). He specialized in [[marine (ocean)|marine]] [[gastropod]]s. He worked on many families of Eastern Pacific gastropods including the [[Fissurellidae]], [[Trochidae]], [[Turbinidae]] and [[Liotiidae]], and also investigated deep sea gastropods from [[hydrothermal vent]]s.<ref name="nhm.org"/>
McLean worked as a curator of the [[Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County]] from 1964 to 2001 and was a curator emeritus there until his death in November 2016.<ref name="nhm.org"/><ref>{{Cite web |title=James Hamilton McLean |url=https://bionomia.net/Q1680519 |access-date=2025-04-05 |website=bionomia.net |language=en}}</ref>
== Molluscs described == McLean, often together with other malacologists, described, according to the database [[WoRMS]], 385 new taxa.<ref name="nhm.org">(7 December 2007) {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/*/www.nhm.org/research/malacology/mclean.html |date=* |title=''James McLean: Emeritus Curator'' webpage }} from [[Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County]] website</ref>
At least 37 taxa were named for James McLean with the epithet ''macleani'' (according to WoRMS)
He named numerous taxa of marine [[gastropods]] including: * [[Clypeosectidae]] McLean, 1989, a family of [[hydrothermal vent]] limpets
== Bibliography == * Handbook, 1969, revised in 1978, ''Marine Shells of Southern California'' * Geiger D. L. & McLean J. H. (10 February 2010) "New species and records of [[Scissurellidae]] and [[Anatomidae]] from the Americas (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda)". ''Zootaxa'' '''2356''': 1-35, 24 plates. [http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2010/f/z02356p035f.pdf preview].
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* Note: the NHM info is still available here [http://www.nhm.org/site/research-collections/malacology/staff-biographies]
==Further reading== * DuShane H. (1967). "Biographical sketch. James H. McLean". ''News of the Western Association of Shell Clubs'' '''8'''(5): C15. * McLean J. H. (1998). "Up close and personal with AMU’s presidents". ''American Malacological Union News'' '''27'''(2): 4. * Groves L. (2001). "Jim McLean retires". ''Unitas Malacologica Newsletter'' '''17''': 4.
==External links== * [https://www.biotaxa.org/Zoosymposia/article/view/zoosymposia.13.1.4 Lindsey T. Groves, Daniel L. Geiger, Jann E. Vendetti, Egene V. Coan Biography: James Hamilton McLean: The master of the Gastropoda; Zoosymposia, vol. 13, 2019]
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