title: Abbreviazioni standard degli autori zoologi
text: # 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.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 Jean 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)
  