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)
• 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)

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

Voci correlate

• Codice internazionale di nomenclatura zoologica
• Abbreviazioni standard degli autori botanici
• Abbreviazioni standard degli autori micologi
• Lista di aracnologi

Altri progetti

Altri progetti

• Wikimedia Commons

• Wikimedia Commons contiene immagini o altri file su lista dei nomi degli autori zoologi

Collegamenti esterni

• 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).