Abbreviazioni standard degli autori zoologi

Questa lista elenca, in ordine alfabetico, i nomi degli autori che si ritrovano nella nomenclatura binomiale delle specie animali da loro descritte in accordo alle regole del Codice internazionale di nomenclatura zoologica:

A

A.A.Gould - Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866) concologo, malacologo
A.Adams – Arthur Adams (1820–1878) principalmente animali marini
A.Agassiz, A.Ag. – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (1835–1910) principalmente animali marini
A.Alexander – Annie Montague Alexander (1867–1950) paleontologo
A.Allen – Arthur Augustus Allen (1885–1964) ornitologo
A.B.Meyer - Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840–1911) primati, ornitologo, entomologo (principalmente Wallacea)
A.D.Bartlett – Abraham Dee Bartlett (1812–1897) zoologo generale (principalmente vertebrati)
A.E.Brehm – Alfred Edmund Brehm (1829–1884) zoologia generale
A.Grandidier - Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921)
A.Grote, Grote - Augustus Radcliffe Grote (1841–1903) entomologo
A.H.Miller – Alden H. Miller
A.L.Adams – Andrew Leith Adams (1827–1882) paleontologo dei vertebrati
A.Milne-Edwards – Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900) ornitologo
A.Newton - Alfred Newton (1829–1907)
A.P.Jenkins – Aaron Peter Jenkins
A.R. Emery - Alan R. Emery
A.Walker – Alick Donald Walker (1925–1999) paleontologo
Abbott, C.C.Abbott – Charles Conrad Abbott (1843–1919) zoologo generale
Abe – Tokiharu Abe (1911–1996)
Abeille de Perrin, Ab. – Elzéar Abeille de Perrin (1843–1910)
Able – Kenneth W. Able (nato 1945)
Acerbi – Giuseppe Acerbi (1773–1846)
Acero – Arturo Acero Pizarro (nato 1954)
Adams, Ad. – Charles Baker Adams (1814–1853) malacologo
Agassiz, Ag., L.Ag., Agass. – Louis Agassiz (1807–1873) ittiologo, paleontologo
Agenjo – Ramon Agenjo Cecilia (1908–1984)
Aguilera – Orangel Antonio Aguilera Socorro
Ahl, E.Ahl – Ernst Ahl (1898–1943) erpetologo, ittiologo
Ahlquist – Jon Edward Ahlquist (verso la fine del XX secolo)
Ahlstrom – Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom (1910–1979)
Ahnelt – Harald Ahnelt
Aizawa – Masahiro Aizawa
Akama – Alberto Akama
Akihito – Imperatore Akihito del Giappone (nato 1933)
Albert – James S. Albert
Albertis – Luigi Maria d'Albertis (1841–1901)
Alcock – Alfred William Alcock (1859–1933)
Aldrovandi, Aldr. – Ulisse Aldrovandi (1522–1605)
Alencar – José Eduardo de Alencar Moreira (nato 1953)
Alexander, B.Alexander – Boyd Alexander (1873–1910) ornitologo
Alfaro – Anastasio Alfaro (1865–1951)
Alifanov – Vladimir R. Alifanov
Allain – Ronan Allain (nato 1974)
Allen, J.A.Allen – Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921) ornitologo, mammiferi americani
Allioni – Carlo Allioni (1728–1804)
Allman, Allm. – George James Allman (1812–1898)
Almeida-Toledo – Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo
Alströmer – Claes Alströmer (1736–1794), un pupillo di Linneo
Amadon – Dean Amadon (1912–2003)
Ambrosio – Alfredo Ambrosio
Ameghino – Florentino Ameghino (1854–1911)
Amyot – Charles Jean-Baptiste Amyot (1799–1866) entomologo
Ancey – César Marie Félix Ancey (1860–1906)
Anderson, J.Anderson – John Anderson (1833–1900) mammiferi e rettili asiatici
André – Jacques Ernest Edmond André (1844–1891)
Andriyashev, Andriashev, Andrijaschew – Anatoly Petrovich Andriashev (1910–2009)
Angas – George French Angas (1822–1886)
Annandale – Nelson Annandale (1876–1924)
Anthony – Harold Elmer Anthony (1890–1970)
Antunes – Miguel Telles Antunes (nato 1937)
Apesteguía – Sebastián Apesteguía
Appellöf – Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921)
Archbold – Richard Archbold (1907–1976)
Archer – William Archer (1830?–1897) microorganismi
Arcucci – Andrea B. Arcucci
Arrow – Gilbert John Arrow (1873–1948)
Artedi, Arctaedius, Art. – Peter Artedi (1705–1735)
Asano – Nagao Asano
Ashmead – William Harris Ashmead (1855–1908)
Asso – Ignacio Jordán Claudio de Asso y del Rio (1742–1814)
Atkinson – William Stephen Atkinson (1820–1876)
Aubé, Aub. – Charles Aubé (1802–1869)
Audebert, Audeb. – Jean-Baptiste Audebert (1759–1800)
Audubon, Audub. – John James Audubon (1785–1851)
Aurivillius, P.Aurivillius, Auriv. – Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius (1853–1928) entomologo
Ausserer, Auss. – Anton Ausserer (1907–1976)
Ayling – Tony Ayling (nato 1947)
Ayres, W.O.Ayres – William Orville Ayres (1805–1887) ittiologo
Azara, Az. – Félix de Azara (1746–1821)
Azuma – Yoichi Azuma

B

B./B.K./B.-K.Zhang – Bao-kun Zhang
Baba – Kikutarō Baba (1905-2001)
Bachman – John Bachman (1790–1874)
Bailey – Steven Bailey
Baillon – Louis Antoine Francois Baillon (1778–1851)
Baird – Spencer Fullerton Baird (1823–1887)
Baker – Edward Charles Stuart Baker (1864–1944)
Bakker – Robert T. Bakker (nato 1945)
Balanov – Andrei A. Balanov
Balbiani - Édouard-Gérard Balbiani (1823-1899)
Ball – Valentine Ball (1843–1895)
Balon – Eugene K. Balon
Balouet – Jean-Christophe Balouet ornitologo, paleontologo
Balss – Heinrich Balss (1886–1957)
Balushkin – Arkadii Vladimirovich Balushkin
Bandyopadhyay – Saswati Bandyopadhyay
Bangs – Outram Bangs (1863–1932) vertebrati (principalmente uccelli e mammiferi)
Banks – Nathan Banks (1868–1953) entomologo
Bannerman – David Armitage Bannerman (1886–1979) ornitologo
Bannikov – Alexandre Fedorovich Bannikov
Bansok Ros Bansok
Barbour – Thomas Barbour (1884–1946)
Barnes & McDunnough – James Halliday McDunnough (1877–1962)
Barrett – Paul M. Barrett
Barrows – Walter Bradford Barrows (1855–1923)
Barsbold – Rinchen Barsbold paleontologo (principalmente dinosauri teropodi)
Bartenef – Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev
Bartlett – Edward Bartlett (1836–1908) ornitologo
Barton – Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815)
Baskin – Jonathan N. Baskin
Batchelder – Charles Foster Batchelder (1856–1954)
Bate – Charles Spence Bate (1819–1889)
Bates – George Latimer Bates (1863–1940)
Bateson – William Bateson (1861–1926)
Bean – Tarleton Hoffman Bean (1846–1916)
Beavan – Reginald C. Beavan (1841–1870)
Bechstein – Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757–1822)
Beddome – Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911)
Bedriaga – Jacques von Bedriaga (1854–1906)
Behr – Hans Hermann Behr (1818–1904)
Bell – Thomas Bell (1792–1880)
Bemmel – Adriaan Cornelis Valentin van Bemmel
Bendire – Charles Emil Bendire (1863–1940)
Benitez – Hesquio Benitez
Bennett – Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836) zoologo generale
Benson – Constantine Walter Benson (1909–1982) ornitologo
Bent – Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866–1954)
Benton – Michael J. Benton (nato 1939)
Beresford – Pamela Beresford
Berg – Leo Semenovich Berg (1876–1950)
Bergh – Ludwig Rudolph Sophus Bergh (1824–1909)
Berkenhout – John Berkenhout (1726–1791)
Berla – Herbert Franzioni Berla (1912–1985)
Berland – Lucien Berland (1888–1962)
Berlepsch – Hans von Berlepsch (1850–1915)
Berlioz – Jacques Berlioz (1891–1975)
Berry – Samuel Stillman Berry (1887–1984)
Berthold – Arnold Adolph Berthold (1803–1861)
Bertkau – Philipp Bertkau (1849-1894)
Bezzi – Mario Bezzi (1868–1927) entomologo
Bianco – Pier Giorgio Bianco
Bibron – Gabriel Bibron (1806–1848)
Bigot – Jacques-Marie-Frangile Bigot (1818–1893)
Bilek – Alois Bilek (1909–1974)
Billberg – Gustaf Johan Billberg (1772–1844)
Billings – Elkanah Billings (1820–1876) paleontologo
Bingham – Charles Thomas Bingham (1848–1908)
Biswas – Biswamoy Biswas (1923–1994)
Blache – Jacques Blache (1922–1994)
Black – Davidson Black (1884–1934)
Blackburn – Thomas Blackburn (1844–1912) entomologo
Blackwall – John Blackwall (1790–1881)
Blainville – Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850)
Blanchard – Charles Émile Blanchard (1819–1900)
Blanford – William Thomas Blanford (1832–1905)
Blasius – Johann Heinrich Blasius (1809–1870) zoologo generale (principalmente vertebrati)
Blatchley – Willis Blatchley (1859–1940)
Bleeker – Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878)
Bloch – Marcus Elieser Bloch (1723–1799)
Blumenbach – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840)
Blyth – Edward Blyth (1810–1873)
Bocage – José Vicente Barbosa du Bocage (1823–1907)
Bocourt – Marie Firmin Bocourt (1819–1904)
Boddaert – Pieter Boddaert (1730–1795/96)
Boettger – Oskar Boettger (1833–1910)
Boetticher – Hans von Boetticher (1886–1958)
Bogert – Charles Mitchill Bogert (1908–1992) erpetologo
Bohadsch – Johann Baptist Bohadsch (1724–1768) zoologo marino
Boheman – Karl Henrik Boheman (1796–1868)
Boisduval – Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Dechauffour de Boisduval (1799–1879) entomologo e botanico
Bolle – Carl Bolle (1821–1909)
Bolotsky – Yuri L. Bolotsky
Bolton – Barry Bolton - entomologo
Bonaparte – Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1794–1857) ornitologo
Bond – James Bond (ornitologo) (1900–1989) ornitologo
Bond – Jason Bond aracnologo
Bonelli – Franco Andrea Bonelli (1784–1830) ornitologo, entomologo
Bonhote – J. Lewis Bonhote (1875–1922)
Bonnaterre – Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1747–1804)
Borkhausen – Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760–1806)
Born – Ignaz von Born (1742–1791)
Borodin – Nikolai Andreyevich Borodin (1861–1937)
Borsuk-Bialynicka – Maria Magdalena Borsuk-Białynicka
Bory de Saint-Vincent – Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1780–1846)
Bosc – Louis-Augustin Bosc d'Antic (1759–1828)
Boucard – Adolphe Boucard (1839–1905)
Bouček – Zdeněk Bouček - entomologo
Boulenger – George Albert Boulenger (1858–1937)
Bourcier – Jules Bourcier (1797–1873)
Bouvier – Eugène Louis Bouvier (1856–1944)
Bowdich – Thomas Edward Bowdich (1791–1824)
Bowerbank – James Scott Bowerbank (1797–1877)
Brandt – Johann Friedrich von Brandt (1802–1879)
Brauer – Friedrich Moritz Brauer (1832–1904)
Braun - Annette Frances Braun (1884 – 1978) entomologa
Bremer – Otto Vasilievich Bremer (died 1873))
Bremi-Wolf – Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf (1791–1857)
Brèthes - Jean Brèthes (1871-1928) entomologo
Brett-Surman – Michael K. Brett-Surman (nato 1950)
Brevoort – James Carson Brevoort (1818–1887)
Brewster – William Brewster (ornitologo) (1851–1919) ornitologo
Briggs – John Carmon Briggs (1920-)
Brischke – Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke (1814–1897)
Brisson – Mathurin-Jacques Brisson (1723–1806)
Brittinger – Christian Casimir Brittinger (1795–1869)
Brodkorb – Pierce Brodkorb ornitologo, paleontologo
Brongniart – Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847) paleontologo
Bronn – Heinrich Georg Bronn (1800–1862)
Brooke – Victor Brooke (1843–1891)
Brookes – Joshua Brookes (1761–1833) zoologo generale
Broom – Robert Broom (1866–1951)
Brown – Barnum Brown (1873–1963)
Bruand - Charles Théophile Bruand d'Uzelle (1808–1861) entomologo
Bruch – Carl Friedrich Bruch (1789–1851)
Bruguière – Jean-Guillaume Bruguière (1749–1798)
Brullé – Gaspard Auguste Brullé (1809–1873)
Brünnich – Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827)
Brusatte – Stephen L. Brusatte (1984-)
Brusina – Spiridione Brusina (1845-1909)
Bücherl – Wolfgang Bücherl
Buckland – William Buckland (1784–1856)
Buffetaut – Eric Buffetaut
Buller – Walter Buller (1838–1906)
Bunzel – Emanuel Bunzel (1828-)
Burchell – William John Burchell (1782–1863)
Burge – Donald L. Burge
Burmeister – Hermann Burmeister (1807–1892)
Burn – Robert Burn (1937- ) malacologo
Burnett – Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800–1835)
Burns – John McLauren Burns
Burton – Frederic Burton
Bush – Katharine Jeanette Bush (1855–1937)
Butler – Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844–1925)
Büttikofer – Johann Büttikofer (1850–1929)
Buturlin – Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin (1872–1938)

C

C.A.Forster - Catherine A. Forster
C.A.Walker – Cyril Alexander Walker paleontologo
C.Abbott – Charles Abbot (1761–1817) entomologo
C.Alexander, Alexander – Charles Paul Alexander (1889–1981) entomologo
C.Aurivillius – Carl Wilhelm Samuel Aurivillius (1854–1899)
C.Brongniart – Charles Jules Edmée Brongniart (1859–1899) paleontologo, entomologo
C.C.Baldwin – Carole C. Baldwin
C.Felder - Cajetan Freiherr von Felder (1814–1894) Lepidoptera
C.G.Thomson, Thomson – Carl Gustaf Thomson (1824–1899) entomologo, in particolare insetti svedesi
C.H.Townsend – Charles Haskins Townsend (1859–1944) zoologo marino
C.L.Brehm – Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787–1864) ornitologo
C.L.Koch - Carl Ludwig Koch (1778–1857)
C.K.Li (anche C.-K.Li o C.Li) - Chuankui Li
C.Martin – Claro Martin
C.T.Wood, Wood – Charles Thorold Wood (1777–1852) ornitologo
Cabanis – Jean Cabanis (1816–1906)
Cabrera – Ángel Cabrera (naturalista) (1879–1960)
Caldwell – David Keller Caldwell (nato 1928)
Calman – William Thomas Calman (1871–1952)
Calvert – Philip Powell Calvert (1871–1961)
Calvo – Jorge Calvo
Cambiaso – Andrea Cambiaso
Camerano – Lorenzo Camerano (1856–1917)
Camp – Charles Lewis Camp (1893–1975)
Campos – Diógenes de Almeida Campos
Canestrini – Giovanni Canestrini (1835–1900)
Cano - Gavino Cano (1862-1895) carcinologo
Cantor, Cant. – Theodore Edward Cantor (1809–1860)
Caradja – Aristide Caradja (1861–1955)
Carlson – Bruce A. Carlson
Carpenter – Kenneth Carpenter (nato 1949)
Carr – Archie Carr (1909–1987)
Carriker – Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr. (1879–1965)
Carter – Henry John Carter (1813–1895)
Carus – Julius Victor Carus (1823-1903)
Carvalho – Ismar de Souza Carvalho
Casey – Thomas Lincoln Casey, Jr. (1857–1925) entomologo
Cassin – John Cassin (1813–1869)
Castelnau – Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810–1880)
Cervigón – Fernando Cervigón (nato 1930)
Chabanaud – Paul Chabanaud (1876–1959)
Chamberlin – Ralph Vary Chamberlin (1879–1967)
Chambers, V.T. Chambers - Vactor Tousey Chambers (1830-1883) entomologo
Chapin – James Chapin (1889–1964)
Chapman – Frank Chapman (1864–1945)
Charig – Alan Jack Charig (1927–1997)
Charitonov – Dmitry Evstratievich Kharitonov (1896-1970)
Charpentier – Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847)
Chasen – Frederick Nutter Chasen (1896–1942)
Chatterjee – Sankar Chatterjee (nato 1947)
Cherrie – George Kruck Cherrie (1865–1946)
Chiaie – Stefano Delle Chiaje (1794–1860)
Chiappe – Luis M. Chiappe
Children – John George Children (1777–1852)
Christ – Johann Ludwig Christ (1739–1813)
Chun – Carl Chun (1852–1914)
Chure – Daniel Joseph Chure
Clapp – Cornelia Clapp (1849–1934)
Clark - Benjamin Preston Clark (1860–1939) entomologo
Clemens – James Brackenridge Clemens
Clements – Kendall D. Clements
Clemmer – Glenn H. Clemmer
Clench – Harry Kendon Clench (1925-1979) entomologo
Clench – William J. Clench (1897-1984) malacologo
Clerck – Carl Alexander Clerck (1709–1765)
Cloward – Karen C. Cloward
Cobbold – Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828–1886)
Cocchi - Igino Cocchi (1827-1913) paleontologo
Cochran – Doris M. Cochran (1898–1968)
Cockerell – Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948)
Coimbra-Filho – Adelmar Faria Coimbra-Filho
Colbert – Edwin Harris Colbert (1905–2001)
Colston – Peter R. Colston (nato 1935)
Common - Ian Francis Bell Common (1917-2006) entomologo
Compagno – Leonard J. V. Compagno (nato 1979)
Conci – Cesare Conci (nato 1920)
Conde – Otto Conde (1905–1944)
Conover – Henry Boardman Conover (1892–1950)
Conrad – Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803–1877)
Coombs – Walter P. Coombs, Jr.
Cooper, J.G. Cooper – James Graham Cooper (1830–1902) zoologo generale, in particolare ornitologo
Cooper, W. Cooper – William Cooper (malacologo) (1798–1864) malacologo
Cope – Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897)
Coquerel – Charles Coquerel (1822–1867)
Coria – Rodolfo Coria (nato 1959)
Cornalia – Emilio Cornalia (1824–1882)
Cory – Charles B. Cory (1857–1921)
Costa – Achille Costa (1823–1898) entomologo, in particolare Neuroptera
Coues – Elliott Coues (1842–1899)
Cramer – Pieter Cramer (1721 – c. 1779) entomologo
Crampton – William G. R. Crampton
Cresson – Ezra Townsend Cresson, Jr. (1876–1948) Diptera
Cresson – Ezra Townsend Cresson (Senior) (1838–1926) Hymenoptera
Cretzschmar – Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786–1845)
Crewe – Henry Harpur Crewe (1828–1883)
Crotch – George Robert Crotch (1842–1874)
Crowson – Roy Crowson (1914–1999)
Crusafont – Miquel Crusafont i Pairó (1910–1983)
Currie – Philip J. Currie (nato 1949)
Curry Rogers – Kristina Curry Rogers (nato 1974)
Curtis, Curt. – John Curtis (1791–1862) entomologo
Cuvier – Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) zoologia dei vertebrati, paleontologo
Czerkas – Stephen A. Czerkas

D

D.B.Adams – Daniel B. Adams (fl.1979) paleontologo
D.J.Stewart - Donald J. Stewart
D.Norman, anche D. B. Norman - David B. Norman (nato 1952)
D.q (anche D.-q o D.Li) - Daqing Li
D.R.de Aguilera – Dione Rodrigues de Aguilera
D.S. Peters - Dieter Stefan Peters paleontologo, inclusi gli uccelli
da Costa – Emanuel Mendez da Costa (1717–1791) malacologo
da Silva – Maria Nazareth F. da Silva (anni 1990-)
Dahl – Friedrich Dahl (1856–1929)
Dahlbom – Anders Gustaf Dahlbom (1806–1859)
Dale – James Charles Dale (1792–1872)
Dall – William Healey Dall (1845–1927)
Dalla Torre – Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre (1850–1928)
Dana – James Dwight Dana (1813–1895)
Darwin – Charles Darwin (1809–1882)
Daudin – Francois-Marie Daudin (1774–1804)
David – Armand David (1826–1900)
Dawkins – Richard Dawkins (nato 1941)
de Azevedo – Sérgio Alex Kugland de Azevedo
de Beaufort – Lieven Ferdinand de Beaufort (1879–1968)
de Blainville – Henri Marie Ducrotay de Blainville (1777–1850)
de Castelnau – François Louis de la Porte, Conte di Castelnau (1810–1880)
de Filippi – Filippo de Filippi (1814–1867)
de Geer, De Geer – Charles De Geer (1720–1778)
de Haan – Wilhem de Haan (1801–1855)
De Kay, DeKay, Dekay – James Ellsworth De Kay (1792-1851)
de Man – Johannes Govertus de Man (1850–1930)
de Naurois – René de Naurois (nato 1906)
de Nicéville – Lionel de Nicéville (1852–1901)
De Pourtalès – Louis François de Pourtalès (1824–1880)
de Valai – Silvina de Valai
De Vis – Charles Walter De Vis (1829–1915)
de Winton – William Edward de Winton (1856–1922)
Desjardins - Julien Desjardins (1799-1840)
Delacour – Jean Theodore Delacour (1890–1985)
Della Valle - Antonio Della Valle (1850-1835) ascidiologo, carcinologo
Denis – Michael Denis (1729–1800)
Depéret – Charles Depéret (1854–1929)
Deppe – Ferdinand Deppe (1794–1861)
Des Murs – Marc Athanese Parfait Oeillet Des Murs (1804–1878)
Desfontaines – René Louiche Desfontaines (1750–1833)
Desmarest – Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1784–1838)
Deville, E. Deville – Émile Deville
Diard – Pierre-Médard Diard (1794–1863)
Dieffenbach – Ernst Dieffenbach (1811–1855)
Dingus – Lowell Dingus
Distant – William Lucas Distant (1845–1922)
Djakonov – Alexander Michailovitsch Djakonov (1886–1956)
Dobson – George Edward Dobson (1844–1895)
Döderlein – Petar Döderlein (1809–1895)
Dodson – Peter Dodson (fl. 1980s-present)
Doherty – William Doherty (1857–1901)
Doleschall - Carl Ludwig Doleschall (1827-1859) aracnologo, entomologo
Dollman – Guy Dollman (1886–1942)
Dollo – Louis Dollo (1857–1931)
Domergue - Charles Domergue (1914–2008)
Dong – Zhiming Dong (nato 1937)
Donisthorpe, Donis. – Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951)
Donovan – Edward Donovan (1768–1837)
d'Orbigny – Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny (1802–1857)
Doria – Giacomo Doria (1840–1913)
Doubleday – Henry Doubleday (1808–1875)
Douglas – John William Douglas (1814–1905)
Douvillé - Henri Douvillé (1846-1937)
Drenowsky – Alexander Kirilow Drenowski (1879–1967)
Druce - Herbert Druce (1846-1913) entomologo
Drury – Dru Drury (1725–1804) entomologo
du Bus de Gisignies – Bernard Aimé Léonard du Bus de Gisignies (1808–1874)
du Chaillu – Paul Du Chaillu (1831–1903)
Dubois, C. F. Dubois – Charles Frédéric Dubois (1804–1867)
Dufour – Léon Jean Marie Dufour (1780–1865)
Dufresne – Louis Dufresne
Duftschmid – Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid (1767–1821)
Dumbleton - Lionel Jack Dumbleton (1905-1976) entomologo
Duméril – André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860)
Duméril – Auguste Duméril (1812-1870)
Dumont – Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix (1758–1830)
Duncker – Paul Georg Egmont Duncker (1870–1953)
Duponchel – Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel (1774–1846)
Durrell – Gerald Durrell (1925–1995)
Duvernoy – Georges Louis Duvernoy (1777–1855)
Dwight – Jonathan Dwight (1858–1929)
Dyar – Harrison Gray Dyar, Jr. (1866–1929)

E

E.Adams – Edward Adams (1824–1856)
E.Clark – Eugenie Clark (nato 1922) ittiologo
È.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844)
E.Newton - Edward Newton (1832–1897)
E.O.Wilson – Edward Osborne Wilson (nato 1929)
E.Saunders - Edward Saunders (1848–1910) entomologo (principalmente Coleoptera, Hemiptera, Hymenoptera)
E.A. Smith - Edgar Albert Smith (1847–1916) malacologo
E.Verreaux - Édouard Verreaux (1810–1868)
Earle - Sylvia Alice Earle (nato 1935)
Eaton - Jeffrey Glenn Eaton (nato 1948)
Edwards - William Henry Edwards (1822–1909)
Ehrenberg - Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876)
Eichwald - Karl Eichwald (1795–1876)
Eigenmann - Carl H. Eigenmann (1863–1927)
Ellerman - John Ellerman (1910–1973)
Elliot - Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835–1915)
Emery - Carlo Emery (1848–1925)
Enslin - Eduard Enslin (1879–1970)
Er.Marcus – Ernst Marcus (1893–1968)
Erdős - Jozsef Erdős
Erichson - Wilhelm Ferdinand Erichson (1809–1848)
Erxleben - Johann Christian Polycarp Erxleben (1744–1777)
Eschmeyer - William N. Eschmeyer
Eschscholtz - Johann Friedrich von Eschscholtz (1793–1831)
Esper - Eugen Johann Christoph Esper (1742–1810)
Ev.Marcus – Eveline Du Bois-Reymond Marcus (1901-1990)
Evermann - Barton Warren Evermann (1853–1932)
Eversmann - Eduard Friedrich Eversmann (1794–1860)
Evseenko - Sergei Afanasievich Evseenko
Eyton - Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809–1880)

F

F./F.C./F.-C.Zhang – Fucheng Zhang
F.A. Lucas - Frederic Augustus Lucas (1852–1929)
F.A.Meyer, F.A.A.Meyer, Meyer - Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer (1768–1795) ornitologo, primati
F.Bennett – Frederick Debell Bennett (1836–1897)
F.Boie – Friedrich Boie (1789–1870) zoologo generale (principalmente ornitologo, entomologo)
F.C.Fraser - Frederick C. Fraser
F.Cramer – Frank Cramer
F.Cuvier – Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838)
F.Galton, Galton - Francis Galton (1822–1911)
F.K.Barker – Frederick Keith Barker ornitologo
F.Smith - Frederick Smith (1805–1879) entomologo
F.Walker – Francis Walker (1809–1874) entomologo
Fabre - Jean-Henri Casimir Fabre (1823–1915)
Fabricius - Johan Christian Fabricius (1745–1808)
Fåhraeus - Olof Immanuel von Fåhraeus (1796–1884)
Fahringer - Josef Fahringer (1876–1950)
Fairmaire - Leon Fairmaire (1820–1906)
Falla - Robert Alexander Falla (1901–1979)
Fallén - Carl Frederick Fallén (1764–1830)
Feinberg - M. Norma Feinberg
Fenwick - Jack Fenwick
Fernandes-Matioli - Flora Maria de Campos Fernandes-Matioli
Ferrari-Perez - Fernando Ferrari-Perez (morto 1927)
Ferraris - Carl J. Ferraris, Jr.
Férussac - Jean Baptiste Louis d'Audebard Férussac (1745–1815)
Filhol - Henri Filhol (1843–1902)
Finsch - Otto Finsch (1839–1917)
Fioroni - Pio Fioroni (1933–2003)
Fisher - Warren Samuel Fisher (1878–1971)
Fitch - Asa Fitch (1809–1879)
Fitzinger - Leopold Fitzinger (1802–1884)
Fleming - John Fleming (naturalista) (1785–1857)
Fonscolombe - Etienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe
Forbes - Edward Forbes (1815–1854)
Forbes - Henry Ogg Forbes (1851–1932)
Forel - Auguste-Henri Forel (1848–1931)
Forsius - Runar Forsius (1884–1935)
Forsskål - Peter Forsskål (1732–1763)
Förster - Arnold Förster (1810–1884)
Forster - Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798)
Forsyth Major - Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843–1923)
Fourmanoir - Pierre Fourmanoir (nato 1924)
Fowler - Henry Weed Fowler (1879–1965)
Fox - Wade Fox (1920–1964)
Fraas - Eberhard Fraas (1862–1915)
Framenau - Volker Framenau (nato 1965) aracnologo
Franganillo - Pelegrín Franganillo Balboa (1873–1955)
Franklin - James Franklin (naturalista) (c. 1783 – 1834)
Fraser - Louis Fraser (1810–1866)
Freyer - Christian Friedrich Freyer (1794–1885) Entomologo, principalmente Lepidoptera
Friedmann - Herbert Friedmann (1900–1987)
Frivaldszky - Imre Frivaldszky (1799–1870)
Frohawk - Frederick William Frohawk (1861–1946)
Fruhstorfer - Hans Fruhstorfer (1866–1922)
Fürbringer - Max Fürbringer (1846–1920)
Füssli, Fuessly, Füsslins - Johann Kaspar Füssli (1743–1786)

G

G.D.Johnson – G. David Johnson
G.Fischer, Fischer de Waldheim, Fischer von Waldheim - Johann Fischer von Waldheim (1771–1853)
G.Forster - Georg Forster (1754–1794)
G.Grandidier - Guillaume Grandidier (1873–1957)
G.M.Allen – Glover Morrill Allen (1879–1942) principalmente mammiferi
G.Mayr – Gerald Mayr vertebrati preistorici, principalmente uccelli
G.O.Sars - Georg Ossian Sars (1837–1927)
G.R.Allen – Gerald R. Allen (nato 1942) paleontologo
G.R.Gray - George Robert Gray (1808–1872) entomologo, ornitologo
Gadow - Hans Friedrich Gadow (1855–1928)
Gahan - Charles Joseph Gahan (1862–1939)
Gaimard - Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858)
Galiano - María Elena Galiano (?–2000) aracnologa
Gambel - William Gambel (1823–1849)
Gao - Keqin Gao (nato 1955)
Garman - Samuel Garman (1846–1927)
Garnot - Prosper Garnot (1794–1838)
Garstang - Walter Garstang (1868–1949)
Gasparini - Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini
Gaston - Robert Gaston (nato 1967)
Gauthier - Jacques Gauthier (nato 1948)
Gegenbaur - Carl Gegenbaur (1825–1903)
Gené - Giuseppe Gené (1800–1847)
Gentili, Gentili-Poole - Patricia Gentili-Poole entomologa
Georgi - Johann Gottlieb Georgi (1729–1802)
Germar - Ernst Friedrich Germar (1786–1853)
Gerstäcker - Carl Eduard Adolph Gerstäcker (1828–1895)
Gertsch - Willis J. Gertsch (1906–1998)
Gervais - Paul Gervais (1816–1879)
Géry - Jacques Géry ittiologo
Geyer - Carl Geyer (1796 – 1841) entomologo
Geyer - Charles Andreas Geyer (1809–1853)
Giglioli - Enrico Hillyer Giglioli (1845–1909)
Gilbert - Charles Henry Gilbert (1859–1928)
Gilchrist - John Dow Fisher Gilchrist (1866–1926)
Gill - Theodore Nicholas Gill (1837–1914)
Gillette - David D. Gillette
Gilmore - Charles W. Gilmore (1874–1945)
Girard - Charles Frédéric Girard (1822–1895)
Giraud - Joseph Etienne Giraud (1808–1877)
Girault - Alec Arsène Girault entomologo
Gloger - Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger (1803–1863)
Gmelin - Johann Friedrich Gmelin (1748–1804)
Godart - Jean Baptiste Godart (1775–1825)
Godefroit - Pascal Godefroit
Godman - Frederick DuCane Godman (1834–1919)
Goeze - Johann August Ephraim Goeze (1731–1793)
Göhlich - Ursula Bettina Göhlich
Goldfuss - Georg August Goldfuss (1782–1848)
Goode - George Brown Goode (1851–1896)
Gosse - Philip Henry Gosse (1810–1888)
Gould - John Gould (1804–1881) uccelli e mammiferi
Grandin - Temple Grandin 1947-
Granger - Walter W. Granger (1872–1941)
Grant - Chapman Grant (1887–1983) erpetologo
Grant - Ulysses S. Grant IV (1893–1977) malacologo, paleontologo
Gravenhorst - Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst (1777–1857)
Green - Edward Ernest Green (1861–1949)
Gregory - William K. Gregory (1876–1970)
Griffith - Edward Griffith (1790–1858)
Grimpe - Georg Grimpe, 1889–1936
Grinnell - Joseph Grinnell (1877–1939)
Griscom - Ludlow Griscom (1890–1959)
Grobben - Karl Grobben (1854–1945)
Grube - Adolph Eduard Grube (1812–1880) zoologo
Grumm-Grzhimailo - G. E. Grumm-Grshimailo (1860—1936) entomologo
Guenee, Guenée - Achille Guénée (1809–1880)
Guerin, Guérin-Méneville - Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville (1799–1874)
Güldenstädt - Johann Anton Güldenstädt (1745–1781)
Gunnerus - Johann Ernst Gunnerus (1718–1773)
Gunter - Gordon P. Gunter (1909–1998)
Günther - Albert C. L. G. Günther (1830–1914)
Gurney - John Henry Gurney (1819–1890)
Gyllenhaal - Leonard Gyllenhaal (1752–1840)

H

H.Adams – Henry Adams (1813–1877) malacologo
H.Alexander – Horace Alexander (1889–1989) ornitologo
H.Allen – Harrison Allen (1841–1897) Chiroptera
H.Boie – Heinrich Boie (1794–1827) zoologo generale (principalmente erpetologo)
H.Bryant – Henry Bryant (1820–1867) zoologo generale (principalmente uccelli)
H.Grote - Hermann Grote ornitologo
H.L.Clark – Hubert Lyman Clark (1870–1947) echinodermi
H.M.Smith - Hobart Muir Smith (nato 1912) erpetologo
H.Saunders, Saunders - Howard Saunders (1835–1907) ornitologo
H.Weber, Weber – Hermann Weber (1899–1956)
Habe – Tadashige Habe (nato 1916)
Hablitz – Carl Ludwig von Hablitz (1752–1821)
Hachisuka – Masauyi Hachisuka
Hadiaty – Renny Hadiaty
Hadie – Wartono Hadie
Haeckel – Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919)
Hagen – Hermann August Hagen (1817–1893)
Hahn – Carl Wilhelm Hahn (1786–1835)
Haldeman – Samuel Stehman Haldeman (1812–1880)
Haliday – Alexander Henry Haliday (1807–1870)
Hallowell – Edward Hallowell (erpetologo) (1808–1860)
Hamilton Smith - Charles Hamilton Smith (1776–1859)
Hamilton, Hamilton-Buchanan – Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829)
Hammer – William R. Hammer
Hampson – George Francis Hampson (1860–1936)
Handlirsch – Anton Handlirsch (1865–1935)
Hanley – Sylvanus Charles Thorp Hanley (1819–1899)
Hansemann – Johann Wilhelm Adolf Hansemann (1784–1862)
Hansen – Hans Jacob Hansen (1855–1936)
Harcourt – Edward William Vernon Harcourt (1825–1891)
Hardwicke – Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835)
Harlan – Richard Harlan (1796–1843)
Harper – Francis Harper (1886–1972)
Harris, M.Harris – Moses Harris (1734–1785) entomologo
Harrison – Colin James Oliver Harrison (1926–2003)
Hartert – Ernst Hartert (1859–1933)
Hartig – Theodor Hartig (1805–1880)
Hartlaub – Gustav Hartlaub (1814–1900)
Hassall – Arthur Hill Hassall (1817–1894)
Hatcher – John Bell Hatcher (1861–1904)
Hatschek – Berthold Hatschek (1854–1941)
Haubold – Hartmut Haubold
Haworth – Adrian Hardy Haworth (1767–1833)
Hay – William Perry Hay (1872–1947)
Head – Jason J. Head
Heads – Sam W. Heads
Heaney – Lawrence Richard Heaney
Heckel – Johann Jakob Heckel (1790–1857)
Heemstra – Phillip C. Heemstra
Heider - Karl Heider (1856-1935)
Hellén – Wolter Edward Hellén (1890–1979)
Hellmayr – Carl Edward Hellmayr (1878–1944)
Hemprich – Wilhelm Hemprich (1796–1825)
Henle – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885)
Henshaw – Henry Wetherbee Henshaw (1850–1930)
Hentz – Nicholas Marcellus Hentz (1797–1856)
Herbst – Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743–1807)
Herdman – William Abbott Herdman (1858–1924)
Hering – Erich Martin Hering (1893–1967)
Hermann – Johann Hermann (1738–1800)
Herre – Albert William Christian Theodore Herre (1869–1962)
Herrich-Schäffer – Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer (1799–1874) entomologo
Hershkovitz – Philip Hershkovitz (1909–1997)
Hertlein – Leo George Hertlein (1898–1972)
Heude – Pierre Marie Heude (1836–1902)
Heuglin – Theodor von Heuglin (1824–1876)
Heuvelmans – Bernard Heuvelmans (1916–2001)
Hewitson – William Chapman Hewitson (1806–1878)
Heydenreich – Gustav Heinrich Heydenreich (metà del XIX secolo)
Heymons – Richard Heymons (1867–1943)
Hildebrand – Samuel Frederick Hildebrand (1883–1949)
Hilgendorf – Franz Martin Hilgendorf (1839–1904)
Hilsenberg – Carl Theodor Hilsenberg (1802–1824)
Hinton – Martin Hinton (1883–1961)
Hinton - Howard Everest Hinton (1912-1977) entomologo
Hirohito – Imperatore Shōwa Hirohito del Giappone (1901–1989)
Hirst – Arthur Stanley Hirst (1883–1930) aracnologo, britannico
Hirst – David B. Hirst aracnologo, australiano
Hiyama – Yoshio Hiyama (nato 1909)
Hodgson – Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894)
Hoese – Douglass F. Hoese
Hoffmannsegg – Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849)
Hoffstetter – Robert Hoffstetter (XIX secolo)
Holbrook – John Edwards Holbrook (1794–1871)
Holland – William Jacob Holland (1848–1932)
Holmberg – Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (1852–1937)
Holmgren – August Emil Holmgren (1829–1888)
Holthuis – Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis (1921–2008)
Hombron – Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852)
Horn – George Henry Horn (1840–1897)
Horner – Jack Horner (paleontologo) (nato 1946)
Horsfield – Thomas Horsfield (1773–1859)
Horváth – Géza Horváth (1847–1937)
Hose – Charles Hose (1863–1929)
Houttuyn – Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798)
Howard – Hildegarde Howard (1901–1998)
Howell, A.H.Howell – Arthur H. Howell (1872–1940)
Hoyle – William Evans Hoyle (1855–1926)
Hu – Yaoming Hu
Hubbs – Carl Leavitt Hubbs (1894–1979)
Hübner – Jacob Hübner (1761–1826)
Huene, von Huene – Friedrich von Huene (1875–1969)
Huey Laurence Markham Huey (1892–1963)
Hulke – John Whitaker Hulke (1830–1895)
Hume – Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912)
Humphrey – Philip Strong Humphrey (nato 1926)
Hunt – Adrian P. Hunt
Hutt – Steve Hutt
Hwang – Sunny H. Hwang

I

I.Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire - Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861)
Ida - Hitoshi Ida (nato 1940)
Illiger - Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813)
Imhoff - Ludwig Imhoff (1801–1868) entomologo
Iredale - Tom Iredale (1880–1972)
Irwin - Steve Irwin (1962–2006)
Ivantsoff - Walter Ivantsoff
Ivie - Michael Aaron Ivie
Ivie - Wilton Ivie
Iwai - Tamotsu Iwai

J

J.A. Wilson – Jeffrey A. Wilson paleontologo
J.A.Allen – John A. Allen malacologo
J.Abbott – John Abbot (1751–1841) entomologo, ornitologo
J.Bonaparte – José Bonaparte (nato 1928) paleontologo (dinosauri del Sud America)
J.C.Moore – Joseph Curtis Moore (1914–1995) roditori
J.D.Ogilby – James Douglas Ogilby (1853–1925) ittiologo
J.E.Gray - John Edward Gray (1800–1875)
J.E.Smith - James Edward Smith (1759–1828) Lepidoptera
J.F.Miller – John Frederick Miller (1759–1796) principalmente vertebrati
J.F.Naumann - Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780–1857)
J.Fischer - Johann Baptist Fischer (morto 1832)
J.G.Fischer - Johann Gustav Fischer (1819–1889)
J.H.Fleming - James Henry Fleming (1872–1940)
J.H.Gurney Jr - John Henry Gurney Jr. (1848–1922)
J.L.B.Smith - James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897–1968) ittiologo
J.L.Peters - James Lee Peters (1889–1952) ornitologo
J.M.Ayres – José Márcio Ayres (1954–2003) primati
J.M.Clark – James Michael Clark
J.N.Ahl, Ahl – Jonas Nicolaus Ahl
J.S.Huxley – Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975) zoologo generale
J.Verreaux - Jules Verreaux (1807–1873)
Jacobs – Jean-Charles Jacobs (1821–1907) entomologo (Diptera, Hymenoptera)
Jacobson - Georgij Georgievič Jacobson (1871–1926) entomologo
Jacquin – Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817) principalmente taxa dell'America tropicale
Jacquinot – Honoré Jacquinot (1815–1887) principalmente zoologo marino
Jain – Sohan Lal Jain paleontologo dei vertebrati
Jakowlew – Alexander Iwanowitsch Jakowlew (1863–1909)
James – Helen F. James (paleo) ornitologo
Jameson – Robert Jameson (1774–1854) zoologo generale
Janensch – Werner Janensch (1878–1969) paleontologo dei vertebrati (sauropodi dell'Africa Orientale)
Janson – Oliver Erichson Janson (1850–1926) entomologo (Coleoptera)
Jardine – William Jardine (1800–1874) zoologo generale
Jebb – Matthew H. P. Jebb
Jeffreys – John Gwyn Jeffreys (1809–1885)
Jenkins – James Travis Jenkins (1876–1959)
Jensen – James A. Jensen (1918–1998) paleontologo dei vertebrati
Jerdon – Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872) zoologo generale (Asia Meridionale)
Jiménez de la Espada – Marcos Jiménez de la Espada (1831–1898) zoologo dei vertebrati
Jocqué – Rudy Jocqué
Johnston – George Johnston (naturalista)
Jordan – David Starr Jordan (1851–1931) ittiologo
Jordan - Heinrich Ernst Karl Jordan (1861–1959) entomologo
Jouanin – Christian Jouanin

K

K.Andersen – Knud Andersen (1867-1918)
K.Jordan – Karl Jordan (1861–1959) entomologo (Coleoptera, Lepidoptera, Siphonaptera)
Karsch - Ferdinand Karsch (1853-1936)
Katayama - Masao Katayama (nato 1912)
Kaup - Johann Jakob Kaup (1803–1873)
Kay - E. Alison Kay (1928–2008) malacologa
Keferstein - Wilhelm Moritz Keferstein (1833–1870)
Kelaart - Edward Frederick Kelaart (1819–1860)
Kellner - Alexander Wilhelm Armin Kellner
Kennedy - Clarence Hamilton Kennedy (1879–1952)
Kennicott - Robert Kennicott (1835–1866)
Kerr - Robert Kerr (1755–1813)
Kessler - Karl Fedorovich Kessler (1815–1881)
Keulemans - John Gerrard Keulemans (1842–1912)
Keyserling - Eugen von Keyserling (1833–1889)
Kieffer - Jean-Jacques Kieffer (1857–1925)
Kielan-Jaworowska - Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (nato 1925)
King - Phillip Parker King (1793–1856)
Kinnear - Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882–1957)
Kirby - William Kirby (1759–1850)
Kirkaldy - George Willis Kirkaldy
Kirkland - James Ian Kirkland (nato 1954)
Kitchener - Darrell John Kitchener (nato 1943)
Kittlitz - Friedrich Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1871)
Kloss - Cecil Boden Kloss (1877–1949)
Klotzsch - Johann Friedrich Klotzsch (1805–1860)
Klug - Johann Christoph Friedrich Klug (1775–1856)
Kner - Rudolf Kner (1810–1868)
Knoch - August Wilhelm Knoch (1742–1818)
Kobayashi - Yoshitsugu Kobayashi
Koelz - Walter Norman Koelz (1895–1989)
Kolbe - Hermann Julius Kolbe (1855–1939)
Kollar - Vincenz Kollar (1797–1860)
Konings -- Ad Konings
Kono - Hiromichi Kōno (1905–1963)
Konow - Friedrich Wilhelm Konow (1842–1908)
Kotlyar - Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kotlyar
Kotthaus - Adolf Kotthaus
Kraatz - Ernst Gustav Kraatz (1831–1909)
Krabbe - Niels Krabbe (nato 1951)
Kraglievich - Lucas Kraglievich
Krauss - Friedrich von Krauss (1812–1890)
Krauss - Hermann August Krauss (1848–1939)
Krefft - Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft (1830–1881)
Kriechbaumer - Joseph Kriechbaumer (1819–1902)
Kristensen - Niels Peder Kristensen (1943-2014) entomologo
Krohn - August David Krohn (1803–1891)
Kropotkin - Peter Kropotkin (1842–1921)
Ksepka - Daniel T. Ksepka
Kuhl - Heinrich Kuhl (1797–1821)
Kuiter - Rudolf Herman Kuiter (nato 1943)
Kulczynski - Wladislaus Kulczynski
Kuroda - Nagamichi Kuroda (1889–1978)
Kurzanov - Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov

L

L.H.Miller – Loye H. Miller paleontologo, principalmente uccelli
L.Koch - Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825–1908)
L.Martin – Larry Martin (nato 1943) paleontologo
L.R.Taylor – Leighton R. Taylor
Labillardière - Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834)
Lacépède - Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Conte di Lacépède (1756–1825)
Lacordaire - Jean Theodore Lacordaire (1801–1870)
Lafresnaye - Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783–1861)
Laicharting - Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting (1754–1797)
Lamanna - Matthew Carl Lamanna
Lamarck - Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829)
Lambe - Lawrence Morris Lambe (1863–1919)
Lambrecht - Kálmán Lambrecht
Lameere - Auguste Lameere (1864–1942)
Lamouroux - Jean Vincent Félix Lamouroux (1779-1825)
Landbeck - Christian Ludwig Landbeck (1807–1890)
Langer - Max Cardoso Langer
Langston - Wann Langston, Jr. (1921-2013)
Laporte - Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810–1880)
Lapparent, de Lapparent - Albert-Félix de Lapparent (1905–1975)
Larson - Helen K. Larson
Latham - John Latham (1740–1837)
Latreille - Pierre André Latreille (1762–1833)
Laurenti - Joseph Nicolai Laurenti (1735–1805)
Laurillard – Charles Léopold Laurillard (1783–1853)
Lavocat - René Lavocat (1909-2007) paleontologo
Lawrence - George Newbold Lawrence (1806–1895)
Laxmann - Erik Laxmann (1737–1796)
Layard - Edgar Leopold Layard (1824–1900)
Le Leouff - Jean Le Leouff
Le Souef - William Henry Dudley Le Souef (1856–1923) e Albert Sherbourne Le Souef (1877-1951) (fratelli)
Lea - Arthur Mills Lea (1868–1932)
Leach - Edwin S. Leach (1878–1971)
Leach - William Elford Leach (1790–1836)
LeConte - John Lawrence LeConte (1825–1883)
Lee - Yuong-Nam Lee
Leech - John Henry Leech (1862–1900)
Lehtinen - Pekka T. Lehtinen
Leidy - Joseph Leidy (1823–1891)
Leisler - Johann Philipp Achilles Leisler (1771–1813)
Lembeye - Juan Lembeye (1816–1889)
Lendzion - Kazimiera Lendzion
Lepeletier - Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier (1770–1845) entomologo
Lesson - René-Primevère Lesson (1794–1849)
Lesueur - Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778–1846)
Leuckart - Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898)
Leussler - R. A. Leussler
Lichtenstein - Martin Lichtenstein (1780–1867)
Lilljeborg - Wilhelm Lilljeborg (1816–1908)
Lindl. - John Lindley (1799–1865)
Link - Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1850)
Linnaeus - Carlo Linneo (1707–1778)
Linsley - Earle Gorton Linsley (1910–2000)
Lintner - Joseph Albert Lintner (1822–1898)
Ljungh - Sven Ingemar Ljungh (1757–1828)
Lo Bianco - Salvatore Lo Bianco (1860-1910)
Loche - Victor Loche (1806–1863)
Lönnberg - Einar Lönnberg (1864–1942)
Lowe - Percy Lowe (1870–1948)
Lowe - Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874)
Lü (also J.C.Lü, J.-C.Lü or J.Lü) - Junchang Lü
Lubbock - John Lubbock, I barone Avebury (1834–1913)
Lucas - Hippolyte Lucas (1814–1899)
Lull - Richard Swann Lull (1867–1957)
Lund - Peter Wilhelm Lund (1801–1880)
Lütken - Christian Frederik Lütken (1827–1901)
Lydekker - Richard Lydekker (1849–1915)
Lyon - Marcus Ward Lyon (1875–1942)

M

M.A.Smith - Malcolm Arthur Smith (1875–1958) erpetologo
M.Archer – Michael Archer (nato 1945) mammiferi, paleontologo
M.Fischer - Maximilian Fischer (nato 1929)
M.J.Barker – Michael J. Barker
M.L.Penrith - Mary Louise Penrith (nata 1942)
M.Sars - Michael Sars (1809–1869)
Mabille – Jules François Mabille (1831–1904)
Mackovicky – Peter J. Mackovicky
Makela – Robert R. Makela (1940–1987)
Malaise – René Malaise (1892–1978)
Maleev – Evgenii Aleksandrovich Maleev (1915–1966)
Mannerheim – Carl Gustaf Mannerheim (naturalista) (1797–1854)
Mantell – Gideon Mantell (1790–1852)
Marchi - Pietro Marchi (1833-1923) elmintologo, entomologo
Marhsall – Thomas Ansell Marshall (1827–1903)
Marinescu – Florian Marinescu (biologo)
Markevich – Aleksandr Prokofyevich Markevich (1905–1999)
Marples – Brian John Marples (1907-1997)
Marsh – Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899)
Marshall – Guy Anstruther Knox Marshall (1871–1959)
Martill – David Michael Martill
Martin – William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1798–1864) principalmente mammiferi
Martinez – Ruben D. Martinez
Marvin – Nigel Marvin (nato 1960)
Maryanska – Teresa Maryańska
Mason – Francis Mason (1799–1874)
Massy – Anne Letitia Massy
Mateus – Octávio Mateus (nato 1975)
Mathews – Gregory Mathews (1876–1949)
Matley – Charles Alfred Matley (nato 1866)
Matschie – Paul Matschie (1861–1926)
Matsubara – Kiyomatsu Matsubara (1907–1968)
Matsumura – Shōnen Matsumura (1872–1960)
Matsuura – Keiichi Matsuura
Maynes - Gerald Michael Maynes (nato ?)
Mayr – Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) vertebrati, principalmente uccelli
McCook - Henry Christopher McCook (1837–1911)
McCoy – Clarence John "Jack" McCoy (1935–1993) erpetologo
McCulloch – Alan Riverstone McCulloch (1885–1925) ittiologo
McLachlan – Robert Mac Lachlan (1837–1904)
Meade-Waldo – Edmund Meade-Waldo (1855–1934)
Mearns – Edgar Alexander Mearns (1856–1916)
Meek – Seth Eugene Meek (1859–1914)
Meguro – Katsusuke Meguro
Méhely – Lajos Méhelÿ (1862–1953)
Meigen – Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764–1845)
Mello-Leitão – Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (1886–1948)
Melsheimer – Frederick Ernst Melsheimer (1782–1873)
Ménétries – Édouard Ménétries (1802–1861)
Menezes – Naercio Aquino de Menezes (nato 1937)
Merrem – Blasius Merrem (1761–1824)
Merrett – Nigel Merrett
Merriam – Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942)
Mertens – Robert Mertens (1894-1975)
Metcalfe – John William Metcalfe (1872–1952)
Metschnikoff, Mechnikov – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845–1916)
Meyen – Franz Meyen (1804–1840)
Meyer de Schauensee - Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901–1984) ornitologo
Meyer, von Meyer – Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869) paleontologo
Meyrick – Edward Meyrick (1854–1938) entomologo
Michener – Charles Duncan Michener (nato 1918)
Middendorf, Midd. – Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894)
Midgley – Steven Hamar Midgley
Miles – Clifford Miles
Miller – Gerrit Smith Miller (1869–1956) mammiferi
Millet – Pierre-Aimé Millet (1783–1873)
Milne-Edwards – Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885) mammiferi e crostacei
Milner – Angela C. Milner
Minet - Joël Minet entomologo
Miranda-Ribeiro – Alípio de Miranda Ribeiro (1874–1939)
Mitchell – Thomas Mitchell (esploratore) (1792–1855)
Mitchill – Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764–1831)
Mitra – Tridib Ranjan Mitra
Mizuno – Nobuhiko Mizuno
Mochizuki – Kenji Mochizuki
Mocquard - François Mocquard (1834–1917)
Mocsáry – Alexander Mocsáry (1841–1915)
Mohr – Erna Mohr (1894–1968)
Molina – Juan Ignacio Molina (1740–1829)
Molnar – Ralph E. Molnar
Mondolfi – Edgardo Mondolfi (1918–1999)
Montagu – George Montagu (1753–1815)
Moore – Frederic Moore (1830–1907) Lepidoptera
Moreno – Perito Francisco Moreno (1852–1919)
Morì – Tamezo Mori (died 1940)
Morley – Claude Morley (1874–1951)
Morrow – James Edwin Morrow, Jr. (nato 1918)
Mortensen – Ole Theodor Jensen Mortensen (1868–1952)
Möschler – Heinrich Benno Möschler (1831–1888)
Motschulsky – Victor Ivanovitsch Motschulsky (1810–1871)
Mourer-Chauviré – Cécile Mourer-Chauviré
Moyer – Jack T. Moyer (1929–2004)
Muche – Werner Heinz Muche (1911–1987)
Müller – Johannes Peter Müller (1801–1858) principalmente ittiologo
Mulsant – Étienne Mulsant (1797–1880)
Munday – Philip L. Munday
Murphy – Robert Cushman Murphy (1887–1973)
Murray – J. A. Murray (naturalista)
Muttkowski – Richard Anthony Muttkowski (nato 1887)

N

Nabokov - Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
Naef - Adolf Naef (1883–1949)
Nagao - Takumi Nagao
Naish - Darren Naish
Natterer - Johann Natterer (1787–1843)
Navás - R. P. Longinos Navás (1858–1938)
Nees - Christian Gottfried Daniel Nees von Esenbeck (1776–1858) entomologo
Nehring - Alfred Nehring (1845–1904)
Nelson - Edward William Nelson (1855–1934)
Nesov, Nessov - Lev Alexandrovich Nesov (1947–1995)
Netting - M. Graham Netting (1904-1996) erpetologo
Neumoegen - Berthold Neumoegen (morto 1895)
Newman - Edward Newman (1801–1876)
Nichols - Albert Russell Nichols (1859–1933)
Nichols - John Treadwell Nichols (1883–1958)
Nielsen - Cesare Nielsen (1898–1984)
Nikolskii - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Nikolskii (1858–1942)
Nilsson - Sven Nilsson (1787–1883)
Nitsche - Heinrich Nitsche (1845–1902)
Noble - Gladwyn Kingsley Noble (1894–1940)
Nopcsa - Franz Nopcsa von Felső-Szilvás (1877–1933)
Norell - Mark A. Norell (nato 1957)
Norman - John Richardson Norman (1899–1944)
North - Alfred John North (1855–1917)
Novas - Fernando Emilio Novas
Nowinski - Aleksander Nowiński
Nuttall - Thomas Nuttall (1786–1859)
Nutting - Charles Cleveland Nutting (1858–1927)
Nylander - William Nylander (1822–1899)

O

O.Costa, O.G.Costa – Oronzio Gabriele Costa (1787–1867) entomologo e zoologia generale
O.F.Müller – Otto Friedrich Müller (1730–1784) insetti, fauna della Scandinavia
O.Kleinschmidt - Otto Kleinschmidt (1870–1954)
Oberholser – Harry Church Oberholser (1870–1963)
Oberthür – Charles Oberthür (1845–1924)
Obraztsov – Nicholas Sergeyevich Obraztsov (nato 1906)
Ochiai – Akira Ochiai (nato 1923)
Ochsenheimer - Ferdinand Ochsenheimer (1767–1822)
Ogilby – William Ogilby (1808–1873) zoologo generale
Ogilvie-Grant – William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924)
Ognev – Sergej Ognew (1886–1951)
Oguma – Mamoru Oguma (1885–1971)
Okamoto – Makoto Okamoto
Oken – Lorenz Oken (1779–1851)
Okumura – Teiichi Okumura
Olfers – Ignaz von Olfers (1793–1872)
Oliv., Olivier – Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756–1814)
Oliver – Walter Oliver (1883–1957)
Olivi – Giuseppe Olivi (1769–1795)
Olson – Storrs Olson (nato 1944)
Oppel – Nicolaus Michael Oppel (1782–1820)
Ord – George Ord (1781–1866)
Osbeck – Pehr Osbeck (1723–1805)
Osborn – Henry Fairfield Osborn (1857–1935)
Osgood – Wilfred Hudson Osgood (1875–1947)
Osi – Attila Ősi
Osmólska – Halszka Osmólska (died 2008)
Osthelder – Ludwig Osthelder (1877–1954)
Ostrom – John Ostrom (1928–2005)
Oudemans – Anthonie Cornelis Oudemans (1858–1943)
Oustalet – Émile Oustalet (1844–1905)
Owen – Richard Owen (1804–1892)

P

P.L.S.Müller, Müller – Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725–1776) uccelli, insetti, alcuni mammiferi, ecc.
P.L.Sclater - Philip Sclater (1829–1913)
P.M.Galton - Peter Galton
P.Miranda-Ribeiro – Paulo de Miranda Ribeiro (1901–1965)
P.P.Li (anche P.-P.Li o P.Li) - Pipeng Li
P.Rich – si veda Vickers-Rich
Packard - Alpheus Spring Packard (1839–1905)
Palisot de Beauvois - Ambroise Marie François Joseph Palisot, barone di Beauvois (1752–1820)
Pallas - Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811)
Palmer - Theodore Sherman Palmer (1868–1955)
Panceri - Paolo Panceri (1833-1877)
Panzer - Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (1755–1829)
Parenti - Lynne R. Parenti
Parks - William Arthur Parks (1868–1939)
Pascoe - Francis Polkinghorne Pascoe (1813–1893)
Patzner - Robert A. Patzner
Paul - Gregory S. Paul (nato 1954)
Peale - Titian Peale (1799–1885)
Pearson - Oliver Paynie Pearson (1915–2003)
Pease - William Harper Pease (1824–1871)
Pelzeln - August von Pelzeln (1825–1891)
Pennant - Thomas Pennant (1726–1798)
Perez-Moreno - Bernardino P. Pérez Moreno
Perle - Altangerel Perle (nato 1945)
Péron - François Péron (1775–1810)
Perty - Joseph Anton Maximillian Perty (1804–1884)
Peters - Wilhelm Peters (1815–1883)
Petrunkevitch - Alexander Petrunkevitch (1875–1964)
Pfeffer - Georg Johann Pfeffer (1854–1931)
Philippi - Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808–1904)
Pic - Maurice Pic (1866–1957)
Pickard-Cambridge - Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917)
Pierce - Frank Nelson Pierce (1861–1943)
Pilsbry - Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957)
Platnick - Norman I. Platnick
P. L. Sclater - Philip Lutley Sclater (1829 - 1913)
Pocock - Reginald Innes Pocock (1863–1947)
Poda - Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus (1723–1798)
Poeppig - Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798–1868)
Poey - Felipe Poey (1799–1891)
Pol - Diego Pol
Poli – Giuseppe Saverio Poli (1746–1825)
Pollen - François Paul Louis Pollen (1842–1886)
Pollini - Ciro Pollini (1782–1833)
Pomel - Auguste Pomel (1821–1898)
Pompeckj - Josef Felix Pompeckj (1867–1930)
Pontoppidan - Erik Pontoppidan (1698–1764)
Pope - Clifford Hillhouse Pope (1899–1974)
Potts - Thomas Henry Potts (1824–1888)
Pouyaud - Laurent Pouyaud
Powell - Jaime Eduardo Powell
Pruvot-Fol - Alice Pruvot-Fol (1873–1972)
Przewalski - Nikolai Przhevalsky (1839–1888)
Pucheran - Jacques Pucheran (1817–1894)
Purcell - William Frederick Purcell (1866–1919)

Q

Q.Ji – Qiang Ji
Quatrefages - Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810–1892)
Quoy - Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869)

R

R.Anderson – Rudolph Martin Anderson (1876–1961) mammiferi
R.Banks – Richard C. Banks (nato 1940)
R.Benson – Robert Bernard Benson (1904–1967)
R.Felder - Rudolf Felder (1842–1871) Lepidoptera
R.G.Bailey – Roland G. Bailey
R.M.Bailey – Reeve Maclaren Bailey
R.R.Forster - Raymond Robert Forster (1922–2000) ^[1]
R.R.Miller – Robert Rush Miller (1916–2003) ittiologo
R.S.Eigenmann, R. Smith - Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858–1947)
R.Watson – Ronald E. Watson
R. B. Watson - Robert Boog Watson (1823-1910)
Raath – Michael A. Raath
Rachmatika – Ike Rachmatika
Rackett – Thomas Rackett (1757–1841)
Radcliffe – Lewis Radcliffe (1880–1950)
Radde – Gustav Radde (1831–1903)
Raffles – Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781–1826)
Rafinesque – Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (1783–1840)
Rainbow – William Joseph Rainbow (1856–1919)
Rajasuriya – Arjan Rajasuriya
Rambur – Jules Pièrre Rambur (1801–1870)
Ramos – Robson Tamar da Costa Ramos
Ramsay, E.P.Ramsay – Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842–1916)
Rand – Austin L. Rand (1905–1982)
Randall – John Ernest Randall (1924-2020) ittiologo
Ranzani - Camillo Ranzani (1775-1841)
Rathbun – Mary Rathbun (1860–1943)
Rathke – Martin Heinrich Rathke (1793–1860)
Ratzeburg – Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg (1801–1871)
Rauhut – Oliver W. M. Rauhut
Raven - Robert John Raven (nato 1960) aracnologo
Razoumowsky – Grigory Razumovsky (1759–1837)
Reakirt – Tryon Reakirt (1844 – dopo il 1871)
Rebel – Hans Rebel (1861–1940)
Reboleira – Ana Sofia Reboleira (1980-)
Regan – C. Tate Regan (1878–1943)
Regel – Eduard August von Regel (1815–1892)
Régimbart – M. Régimbart
Reichenbach – Ludwig Reichenbach (1793–1879)
Reichenow – Anton Reichenow (1847–1941)
Reig – Osvaldo Alfredo Reig (1929–1992)
Reinhardt – Johannes Theodor Reinhardt (1816–1882)
Reinhart – Roy Herbert Reinhart (nato 1919)
Renyaan – Samuel J. Renyaan
Retzius – Anders Jahan Retzius (1742–1821)
Riabinin – Anatoly Nikolaevich Riabinin
Rich – Thomas Hewitt Rich
Richardson – John Richardson (naturalista) (1787–1865)
Richmond – Charles Wallace Richmond (1868–1932)
Richmond – Neil D. Richmond (1912-1992) zoologo dei mammiferi, erpetologo
Ride - William David Lindsay Ride (1926-2011)
Ridgway – Robert Ridgway (1850–1929)
Riggs – Elmer Samuel Riggs (1869–1963)
Riley – Joseph Harvey Riley (1873–1941)
Ripley – Sidney Dillon Ripley (1913–2001)
Ris – Friedrich Ris (1867–1931)
Risso – Antoine Risso (1777–1845)
Rivero – Juan A. Rivero (II metà del XX secolo)
Roberts – Austin Roberts (1883–1948)
Robertson – David Ross Robertson (nato 1946)
Robinson – Herbert Christopher Robinson (1874–1929)
Robison – Henry W. Robison
Robson – Guy Coburn Robson (1888–1945)
Röding – Peter Friedrich Röding (1767–1846)
Roewer – Carl Friedrich Roewer (1881–1963)
Rogenhofer – Alois Friedrich Rogenhofer (1832–1890)
Rogers – Julia Ellen Rogers (1866–1958)
Roger – Julius Roger (1819–1865)
Rohde – Klaus Rohde (nato 1932)
Rohwer – Sievert Allen Rohwer (1887–1951)
Rondelet – Guillaume Rondelet (1507–1566)
Roniewicz – Ewa Roniewicz
Rossi – Pietro Rossi (1738–1804)
Rossignol – Martial Rossignol
Rossman – Douglas Athon Rossman (nato 1936)
Rothschild – Walter Rothschild, II barone Rothschild (1868–1937)
Roxas – Hilario Atanacio Roxas (nato 1896)
Rozhdestvensky – Anatole Rozhdestvensky
Rudolphi – Karl Rudolphi (1771–1832)
Rüppell – Eduard Rüppell (1794–1884)
Russell – Dale Alan Russell (nato 1937)
Ryder – John Adam Ryder (1852–1895)

S

S.Anderson – Steven Clement Anderson (nato 1936) erpetologo
S.Aurivillius – Sven Magnus Aurivillius (1892–1928) zoologo marino
S.G. Lucas - Spencer G. Lucas
S.I.Smith - Sidney Irving Smith (1843–1926) Crustacea
S.Ji – Shu-an Ji
S.Müller – Salomon Müller (1804–1864) principalmente fauna dell'Indonesia
S.Q.Lü (also S.-Q.Lü or S.Lü) - Shunqin Lü
S.Zhou – Shiwu Zhou (nato 1940)
Sakamoto - Katsuichi Sakamoto
Salgado - Leonardo J. Salgado
Salman - Ibrahim Nabil Salman (1992-)
Salmoni - Dave Salmoni
Salter - John William Salter (1820–1869)
Salvadori - Tommaso Salvadori (1835–1923)
Salvin - Osbert Salvin (1835–1898)
Samouelle - George Samouelle (1790–1846)
Sampson - Scott Sampson
Sanborn - Colin Campbell Sanborn (1897–1962)
Santschi - Felix Santschi (1872–1940)
Satunin - Konstantin Alexeevitsch Satunin (1863–1915)
Saunders, W.Saunders - William Wilson Saunders (1809–1879) entomologo (principalmente Hymenoptera e Lepidoptera)
Saussure - Henri Louis Frédéric de Saussure (1829–1905)
Savi - Paolo Savi (1798–1871)
Savigny - Marie Jules César Savigny (1777–1851)
Saville-Kent - William Saville-Kent (1845–1908)
Savornin - Justin Savornin (nato 1876)
Say - Thomas Say (1787–1843)
Schaum - Hermann Rudolph Schaum (1819–1865)
Schiapelli - Rita Delia Schiapelli
Schiffermüller - Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727–1806) naturalista
Schinz - Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1771–1861)
Schiödte - Jørgen Matthias Christian Schiødte (1815–1884)
Schlaikjer - Erich Maren Schlaikjer (nato 1905)
Schlegel - Hermann Schlegel (1804–1884)
Schmidt - Karl Patterson Schmidt (1890–1957)
Schnabl - Johann Andreas Schnabl (1838–1912)
Schneider - Johann Gottlob Schneider (1750–1822)
Schoepf(f) - Johann David Schoepff (1752–1800)
Schomburgk - Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865)
Schönherr - Carl Johan Schönherr (1772–1848)
Schrank - Franz Paula von Schrank (1747–1835)
Schreber - Johann Christian Daniel von Schreber (1739–1810)
Schren(c) k - Leopold von Schrenck (1824–1896)
Schultz - Leonard Peter Schultz (1901–1986)
Schulze - Franz Eilhard Schulze (1840–1921)
Schumacher - Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher (1757–1830)
Scopoli - Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788)
Scott - John Scott (1823–1888)
Scudder - Samuel Hubbard Scudder (1837–1911)
Seebohm - Henry Seebohm (1832–1895)
Seeley - Harry Govier Seeley (1839–1909)
Selby - Prideaux John Selby (1788–1867)
Sélys - Edmond de Sélys Longchamps (1813–1900)
Semenov-Tian-Shanskii - Andrei Semenov-Tian-Shanskii (1866–1942)
Sereno - Paul Sereno (nato 1957)
Serville - Jean Guillaume Audinet Serville (1775–1858)
Sevastianov - Aleksandr Fiodorovich Sevastianov
Severtzov - Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (1827–1885)
Sharp - David Sharp (1840-1922) entomologo
Sharpe - Richard Bowdler Sharpe (1847–1909)
Shaw - George Shaw (1751–1813)
Shelley - George Ernest Shelley (1840–1910)
Shen - Shen Kuo (1031–1095)
Shuckard - William Edward Shuckard (1803–1868)
Sichel - Frédéric Jules Sichel (1802–1868)
Sick - Helmut Sick (1910–1991)
Sideleva - Valentina Grigorievna Sideleva
Siebold - Karl Theodor Ernst von Siebold (1804–1885)
Silvestri - Filippo Silvestri (1876–1949)
Simon - Eugène Simon (1848–1924)
Simpson - Adrian Simpson (1988)
Simpson - George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984)
Slipinski - Stanislaw Adam Ślipiński
Slosson - Annie Trumbull Slosson (1838–1926) entomologo
Smith - Andrew Smith (1797–1872) Africa Meridionale
Snellen von Vollenhoven - Samuel Constantinus Snellen von Vollenhoven (1816–1880)
Snethlage - Emilia Snethlage (1868–1929)
Snodgrass - Robert Evans Snodgrass (1875–1962)
Soeroto - Bambang Soeroto
Sollas - William Johnson Sollas (1849–1936)
Sowerby, Sby. - George Brettingham Sowerby I (1788–1854)
Spallanzani - Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799)
Sparrman - Anders Sparrman (1781–1826)
Speidel - Wolfgang Speidel entomologo
Spencer - Alison Louise (nata 1993)
Spencer - Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929)
Spinola - Maximilian Spinola (1780–1857)
Spix - Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826)
Stahnke - Herbert Ludwig Stahnke (nato 1902)
Stainton - Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822–1892)
Starks - Edwin Chapin Starks (1867–1932)
Statius Müller/Muller - see P.L.S.Müller
Staudinger - Otto Staudinger (1830–1900)
Stebbing - Thomas Stebbing (1835–1926)
Steenstrup - Japetus Steenstrup (1813–1897)
Steere - Joseph Beal Steere (1842–1940)
Stein - Johann Philip Emil Friedrich Stein (1816–1882)
Steindachner - Franz Steindachner (1834–1919)
Stejneger - Leonhard Hess Stejneger (1851–1943)
Stephens - James Francis Stephens (1792–1852)
Sternberg - Charles Hazelius Sternberg (1850–1943)
Sternberg - Charles Mortram Sternberg (1885–1981)
Stimpson - William Stimpson (1832–1872) naturalista americano
Stirling - Edward Charles Stirling (1848–1919) antropologo australiano
Stoll - Caspar Stoll (died 1791)
Stolzmann - Jean Stanislaus Stolzmann (1854–1928)
Storr - Gottlieb Conrad Christian Storr (1749–1821)
Stovall - John Willis Stovall (1891–1953)
Strand - Embrik Strand (1876–1953)
Strauch - Alexander Strauch (1832–1893)
Streets - Thomas Hale Streets (1847–1925)
Stresemann - Erwin Stresemann (1889–1972)
Strickland - Hugh Edwin Strickland (1811–1853)
Stritt - Walter Stritt (1892–1975)
Ström - Hans Ström (1726–1797)
Stromer - Ernst Stromer (1870–1952)
Struhsaker - Paul J. Struhsaker
Su - Su Song (1020–1101)
Such - George Such (1798–1879)
Suckley - George Suckley (1830–1869)
Sues - Hans-Dieter Sues (nato 1956)
Sullivan - Robert M. Sullivan
Sulzer - Johann Heinrich Sulzer (1735–1813)
Sundevall - Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801–1875)
Swainson - William Swainson (1789–1855)
Swann - Harry Kirke Swann (1871–1926)
Swinhoe - Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877)
Swinhoe - Charles Swinhoe (1838-1923) entomologo e ornitologo
Sykes - William Henry Sykes (1790–1872)

T

T.H.Huxley – Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895) zoologo generale
T.W.Harris – Thaddeus Williams Harris (1795–1856)
Taczanowski – Władysław Taczanowski (1819–1890)
Talbot – Mignon Talbot (1869–1950)
Taliev – Dmitrii Nikolaevich Taliev (1908–1952)
Tang – Zhilu Tang
Taquet – Philippe Taquet (nato 1940)
Taschenberg – Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg (1818–1898)
Tate – George Henry Hamilton Tate (1894–1953)
Tattersall, W.M. Tattersall – Walter Medley Tattersall (1882–1948)
Taylor – Edward Harrison Taylor (1889–1978) erpetologo, ittiologo
Temminck – Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778–1858)
Templeton – Robert Templeton (1802–1892)
Thayer – John Eliot Thayer (1862–1933)
Theischinger – Günther Theischinger (nato 1940)
Theobald, W. Theob. – William Theobald (1829–1908)
Thiele – Johannes Thiele (1860–1935)
Thomas – Oldfield Thomas (1858–1929)
Thomson, J. Thomson – James Thomson (entomologo) (1828–1897) entomologo, principalmente Coleoptera e Hymenoptera
Thorell – Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (1830–1901)
Thunberg – Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828)
Ticehurst – Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881–1941)
Tidwell – Virginia Tidwell
Tillyard – Robert John Tillyard (1881–1937)
Timberlake – Philip H. Timberlake (1883–1981)
Tinbergen – Nikolaas Tinbergen (1907–1988)
Tischbein – Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein (1813–1883)
Tjakrawidjaja – Agus Tjakrawidjaja
Todd – Walter Edmond Clyde Todd (1874–1969)
Tokioka – Takasi Tokioka (1913–2001)
Toledo-Piza – Mônica de Toledo-Piza Ragazzo
Tomes – Robert Fisher Tomes (1823–1904)
Tortonese - Enrico Tortonese (1911–1987) ittiologo
Townsend – John Kirk Townsend (1809–1851) ornitologo, principalmente uccelli terrestri
Toxopeus – Lambertus Johannes Toxopeus (1894–1951) entomologo
Traill – Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862)
Traylor – Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. (nato 1915)
Trewavas – Ethelwynn Trewavas (1900–1993)
Tristram – Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906)
Troschel – Franz Hermann Troschel (1810–1882)
Trouessart – Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842–1927)
Troughton - Ellis Le Geyt Troughton (1893-1974)
True – Frederick W. True (1858–1914)
Trybom – Filip Trybom (1850–1913)
Tryon – George Washington Tryon (1838–1888) malacologo
Tschudi – Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818–1889)
Tsogtbaatar – Khishigjaw Tsogtbaatar
Tullgren - Albert Tullgren (1874-1958) zoologo e aracnologo
Tumanova – Tat'yana Alekseyevna Tumanova
Tunstall – Marmaduke Tunstall (1743–1790)
Turner – Alfred Jefferis Turner (1861–1947) entomologo
Turner - Charles Henry Turner (1867 – 1923) entomologo
Turton – William Turton (1762–1835)
Tutt – J. W. Tutt (1858–1911)
Tytler – Robert Christopher Tytler (1818–1872)

U

Uhler - Philip Reese Uhler (1835–1913)
Uvarov - Boris Petrovič Uvarov (1889–1970)

V

Vaillant - Léon Vaillant (1834–1914)
Valenciennes - Achille Valenciennes (1794–1865)
Van Denburgh - John Van Denburgh (1872–1924)
Van Duzee - Edward Payson Van Duzee (1861–1940)
Vander Linden - Pierre Léonard Vander Linden (1797–1831)
Varricchio - David J. Varricchio
Verrill - Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926)
Vickaryous - Matthew P. Vickaryous
Vickers-Rich, P. Rich - Patricia Vickers-Rich (nato 1944)
Vieillot - Louis Pierre Vieillot (1748–1831)
Viette - Pierre Viette (1921-2011) (entomologo francese)
Vieweg - C. F. Vieweg
Vigors - Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840)
Villers - Charles Joseph de Villers (1724–1810)
Vink - Cor Vink (aracnologo neozelandese)
Vladykov - Vadim Dmitrij Vladykov (1898–1986)
von Blomberg - Ernst Freiherr von Blomberg (1821–1903)

W

W.Abbott, Abbott – William Louis Abbott (1860–1936) principalmente ornitologo
W.Alexander – Wilfred Backhouse Alexander (1885–1965) entomologo, ornitologo
W.Anderson – William Anderson (1750–1778) zoologia generale
W.Blasius – August Wilhelm Heinrich Blasius (1845–1912) ornitologo
W.E.Bryant – Walter E. Bryant
W.F.Kirby - William Forsell Kirby (1844–1912)
W.Horn – Walther Hermann Richard Horn (1871–1939)
W.J.Baldwin – Wayne J. Baldwin
W.J.E.M. Costa – Wilson José Eduardo Moreira da Costa
W.L.Sclater - William Lutley Sclater (1863–1944)
W.L. Smith - W. Leo Smith
W.M.Chapman – Wilbert McLeod Chapman (1910–1970)
W.S.Brooks – Winthrop Sprague Brooks (1887–1965)
Waal - Frans de Waal (1948-) primatologo, etologo
Wade - Edward O. Z. Wade (1940-) erpetologo
Waga - Antoni Stanislaw Waga (?-?) erpetologo
Wagenaar-Hummelinck - Pieter Wagenaar-Hummelinck (?-?) zoologo
Wager - Vincent Athelstan Wager (1904-?) erpetologo
Wagler – Johann Georg Wagler (1800–1832) erpetologo, ornitologo
Wagner – Johann Andreas Wagner (1797–1861) zoologo
Wagner - Mary H. Wagner (?-) ittiologa
Wagner - Philipp Wagner (?-) erpetologo
Wagner - Wladimir Alexandrowitch Wagner (1849-1934) aracnologo
Wagner - Rudolf Wagner (1805-1864) anatomo-fisiologo
Wahlberg – Johan August Wahlberg naturalista
Wahlgren - Einar Wahlgren (morto nel 1906)
Waite - Edgar Ravenswood Waite (1866-1928) erpetologo, ittiologo
Wake - David Burton Wake (1936-) erpetologo
Wake - Marvalee H. Wake (?-?) erpetologo
Walbaum – Johann Julius Walbaum (1724–1799) ittiologo
Walch – Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch (1725–1778) naturalista
Walckenaer – Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852) entomologo, naturalista
Walcott – Charles Doolittle Walcott (1850-1927) paleontologo
Waldheim – Gotthelf Fischer von Waldheim (1771-1853) naturalista, paleontologo, anatomista
Waldock – Julianne M. Waldock (?-?) aracnologa
Walker – Alick Donald Walker (1925-1999) paleontologo
Walker – Anne L. Walker (?-?) aracnologa
Walker – Charles Frederic Walker (1904-1979) erpetologo
Walker – Edmund Murton Walker (1877–1969) entomologo
Walker – Francis Walker (1809-1874) entomologo
Walker – H.J. Walker (?-) ittiologo
Walker – James M. Walker (?-?) (morto nel 1997) erpetologo
Walker – Warren Franklin Walker (?-?) erpetologo
Wall – Frank Wall (1868–1950) erpetologo
Wall Gonzáles - Víctor Manuel Wall-González (morto nel 2000) aracnologo
Wallace – Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913) naturalista
Wallace – Howard K. Wallace (?-?) aracnologo
Wallach – Van Stanley Bartholomew Wallach (1947-) erpetologo
Wallengren – Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren (1823–1894) entomologo
Waller – Horace Waller (1833-1896) zoologo
Wallich – George Charles Wallich (1815-1899) biologo marino
Walsh – Benjamin Dann Walsh (1808–1869)
Walsingham – Thomas de Grey, VI barone Walsingham (1843–1919)
Waltl – Joseph Waltl (1805–1888)
Watabe – Mahito Watabe
Waterhouse – George Robert Waterhouse (1801–1888)
Watson – James D. Watson (nato 1928)
Weber – Max Carl Wilhelm Weber (1852–1937) zoologo generale, principalmente vertebrati
Wegrzynowicz – Piotr Węgrzynowicz
Weigold – Hugo Weigold (1886–1973)
Weishampel – David B. Weishampel (nato nel 1952)
Welles – Samuel Paul Welles (1909–1997)
West – Rick West aracnologo
Westwood – John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893)
Wetmore – Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978)
Weyenbergh – Hendrik Weyenbergh Jr. (1842–1885)
Wheeler – William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937)
Whitaker – Joseph Whitaker ornitologo
White - Francis Buchanan White (1842-1894) entomologo
Whitley - Gilbert Percy Whitley (1903-1975) ittiologo
Wiedemann – Christian Rudolph Wilhelm Wiedemann (1770–1840)
Wied-Neuwied – Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782–1867)
Wiegmann – Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (1802–1841)
Williams – James David Williams (nato nel 1941)
Williamson – Thomas Edward Williamson
Wilson – Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) ornitologo
Wiman – Carl Wiman (1867–1944)
Wingate – David B. Wingate (nato 1935)
Winge – Herluf Winge (1857–1923)
Wirjoatmodjo – Soetikno Wirjoatmodjo
Wolfe – Douglas Gerald Wolfe
Wood, W.Wood – William Wood (zoologo) (1774–1857) entomologo
Woodhouse – Samuel Washington Woodhouse (1821–1904)
Wood-Mason – James Wood-Mason (1846–1893)
Woodward – Arthur Smith Woodward (1864–1944)
Wroughton – R. C. Wroughton (1849–1921)
Wucherer – Otto Eduard Heinrich Wucherer (1820-1873) parassitologo
Wülker – Gerhard Wülker (1885-1930) malacologo
Wunderlich – Jörg Wunderlich (?-) aracnologo
Wurmb – Friedrich von Wurmb (1742-1781) naturalista
Wüster – Wolfgang Wüster (?-?) (fl. 2010) erpetologo
Wutke – Maria Regina Caldatto Wutke o Maria Regina Caldatto Wutke Hanss (morta nel 1980) zoologa
Wygodzinsky – Petr Wolfgang Wygodzinsky (1916-1987) entomologo
Wyman – Jeffries Wyman (1814-1874) naturalista, zoologo
Wynn – Addison H. Wynn (?-) erpetologo
Wynne-Edwards – Vero Copner Wynne-Edwards (1906-1997) zoologo
Wytsman – Philogène Auguste Galilée Wytsman (1866-1925) entomologo, ornitologo

X

X.L.Wang, X.-L.Wang, X.Wang - Xiaolin Wang
Xantus - John Xantus de Vesey (1825–1894)
Xu - Xing Xu

Y

Y.Q.Wang, Y.-Q.Wang, Y.Wang - Yuanqing Wang
Y.Y.Lu (anche Y.-Y.Lu o Y.Lu) - Yuyan Lu
Yamaguchi, Yamaguti - Masao Yamaguchi
Yamanoue - Yusuke Yamanoue
Yang, Young - Zhongjian Yang (1897–1979)
Yarrell - William Yarrell (1784–1856)
Yoseda - Kenzo Yoseda
You - Hailu You
Young - David Allan Young (1915–1991) Hemiptera, specialmente Cicadellidae

Z

Z./Z.H./Z.-H.Zhou – Zhonghe Zhou
Z.H.Baldwin – Zachary Hayward Baldwin
Zaddach – Ernst Gustav Zaddach (1817–1881)
Zagulajev, Zagulayev – Aleksei Konstantinovich Zagulajev (1924–2007)
Zanno – Lindsay E. Zanno
Zeledon – José Castulo Zeledón (1846–1923) ornitologo
Zeller – Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808–1883) entomologo
Zetterstedt – Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785–1874)
Zhao – Xijin Zhao
Zimmer – John Todd Zimmer (1889–1957)
Zimmermann – Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743–1815)
Zincken – Julius Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken (1770–1856)
Zirngiebl – Lothar Zirngiebl (1902–1973)
Zittel – Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839–1904)

Note

^ Elogio funebre per Forster (archiviato dall'url originale l'8 agosto 2013).

Bibliografia

Official Lists and Indexes of Names and Works in Zoology, International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature, 1987, ISBN 0853010048
Official Lists and Indexes of Names and Works in Zoology, Supplement 1986-2000, International Commission for Zoological Nomenclature, marzo 2001, ISBN 0853010072

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International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, su iczn.org.
Scarab Workers World Directory, su www-museum.unl.edu. URL consultato il 7 settembre 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale il 15 aprile 2012).
World Diptera Systematists Home Page, su hbs.bishopmuseum.org.
Zoonomen (Ornithologie), su zoonomen.net.
www.natuurcijfers.nl/namen/auteursnamen.htm, su natuurcijfers.nl. URL consultato il 7 settembre 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale il 10 febbraio 2005).
Biographical Etymology of Marine Organism Names, su tmbl.gu.se. URL consultato il 7 settembre 2012 (archiviato dall'url originale il 16 maggio 2011).

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