# 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 von 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 – Viktor Ivanovič Močul'skij (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)