Liste over zoologiske autornavn

Liste over zoologiske autornavn er en oversikt over zoologiske autornavn med standardforkortelser.
 A 

 Abe – Tokiharu Abe (1911–1996)
 Able – Kenneth W. Able (f. 1945)
 Abbott – Charles Conrad Abbott (1843–1919)
 Acerbi – Giuseppe Acerbi (1773–1846) 
 Acero – Arturo Acero Pizarro (f. 1954)
 A. Adams – Arthur Adams (zoolog) (1820–1878)
 Agassiz – Louis Agassiz (1807–1873)
 A. Agassiz – Alexander Emanuel Agassiz (1835–1910)
 Aguilera – Orangel Antonio Aguilera Socorro
 D. R. de Aguilera – Dione Rodrigues de Aguilera
 Ahl – Jonas Nicolaus Ahl
 E. Ahl – Ernst Ahl (1898–1943)
 Ahlstrom – Elbert Halvor Ahlstrom (1910–1979)
 Ahnelt – Harald Ahnelt
 Aizawa – Masahiro Aizawa
 Akama – Alberto Akama
 Akihito – Akihito (f. 1933)
 Albert – James S. Albert
 Albertis – Luigi Maria d'Albertis (1841–1901)
 Alcock – Alfred William Alcock (1859–1933) 
 Alexander – Boyd Alexander (1873–1910)
 Alencar – José Eduardo de Alencar Moreira (f. 1953)
 Alfaro – Anastasio Alfaro (1865–1951)
 Alifanov – Vladimir R. Alifanov
 Allain – Ronan Allain (f. 1974)
 Allen – Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921)
 G.M. Allen – Glover Morrill Allen (1879–1942)
 G.R. Allen – Gerald R. Allen (f. 1942)
 Allioni – Carlo Allioni (1728–1804)
 Almeida-Toledo – Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo
 Amadon – Dean Amadon (1912–2003)
 Ambrosio – Alfredo Ambrosio
 Ameghino – Florentino Ameghino (1854–1911)
 K. Andersen – Knut Andersen
 T. Andersen – Trond Andersen
 Anderson – John Anderson (zoolog) (1833–1900) pattedyr, krypdyr fra Asia
 André – Jacques Ernest Edmond André (1844–1891)
 Andri(y)ashev – Anatoly Petrovich Andriashev (f. 1910)
 Angas – George French Angas (1822–1886)
 Annandale – Nelson Annandale (1876–1924)
 Antunes – Miguel Telles Antunes
 Apesteguía – Sebastián Apesteguía
 Appellöf – Adolf Appellöf (1857–1921) 
 Archbold – Richard Archbold (1907–1976)
 Arcucci – Andrea B. Arcucci
 Arrow – Gilbert John Arrow (1873–1948)
 Asano – Nagao Asano
 Atkinson – William Stephen Atkinson (1820–1876) 
 Aubé – Charles Aubé (1802–1869) 
 Audebert – Jean-Baptiste Audebert (1759–1800)
 Audubon – John James Audubon (1785–1851)
 Ausserer – Anton Ausserer (1907–1976)
 Ayling – Tony Ayling (f. 1947)
 Ayres – William Orville Ayres (1805–1887)
 Azuma – Yoichi Azuma

 B 

 Bachman – John Bachman (1790–1874)
 Bailey – Steven Bailey
 R. G. Bailey – Roland G. Bailey
 R. M. Bailey – Reeve Maclaren 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 (f. 1945)
 Balanov – Andrei A. Balanov
 C. C. Baldwin – Carole C. Baldwin
 W. J. Baldwin – Wayne J. Baldwin
 Z. H. Baldwin – Zachary Hayward Baldwin
 Ball – Valentine Ball (1843–1895)
 Balon – Eugene K. Balon
 Balouet – Jean Christophe Balouet ornitologi, paleontologi
 Balss – Heinrich Balss (1886–1957) 
 Balushkin – Arkadii Vladimirovich Balushkin
 Bandyopadhyay – Saswati Bandyopadhyay
 Bangs – Outram Bangs (1863–1932)
 Banks – Nathan Banks (1868–1953)
 Banks – Richard C. Banks (f. 1940)
 Bannerman – David Armitage Bannerman (1886–1979) ornitologyi
 Bannikov – Alexandre Fedorovich Bannikov
 Bansok – Ros Bansok
 Barbour – Thomas Barbour (1884–1946)
 F.K. Barker – Frederick Keith Barker ornitologi
 M.J. Barker – Michael J. Barker
 Barrett – Paul M. Barrett
 Barrows – Walter Bradford Barrows (1855–1923)
 Barsbold – Rinchen Barsbold paleontologi
 Bartenef – Aleksandr Nikolaevich Bartenev
 Bartlett – Edward Bartlett (1836–1908)
 A. D. Bartlett – Abraham Dee Bartlett (1812–1897)
 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 (zoolog) (1792–1880)
 Bemmel – Adriaan Cornelis Valentin van Bemmel
 Bendire – Charles Emil Bendire (1863–1940)
 Benitez – Hesquio Benitez 
 Bennett – Edward Turner Bennett (1797–1836)
 Bennett – Frederick Debell Bennett (1836–1897)
 Benson – Constantine Walter Benson (1909–1982)
 Benson – Robert Bernard Benson (1904–1967)
 Bent – Arthur Cleveland Bent (1866–1954)
 Benton – Michael Benton (f. 1939)
 Beresford – Pamela Beresford 
 Berg – Lev Berg (1876–1950)
 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 (f. 1849)
 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 paleontologi
 Bingham – Charles Thomas Bingham (1848–1908)
 Biswas – Biswamoy Biswas (1923–1994) 
 Blache – Jacques Blache (1922–1994)
 Black – Davidson Black (1884–1934)
 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)
 W. Blasius – Wilhelm Blasius (1845–1912)
 Bleeker – Pieter Bleeker (1819–1878)
 Bloch – Marcus Élieser Bloch (1723–1799)
 Blumenbach – Johann Friedrich Blumenbach (1752–1840)
 Blyth – Edward Blyth (1810–1873)
 Bocage – Jose Vicente Barboza 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) herpetologi
 Boheman – Karl Henrik Boheman (1796–1868)
 F. Boie – Friedrich Boie (1789–1870)
 H. Boie – Heinrich Boie (1794–1827)
 Boisduval – Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799–1879)
 Bolle – Carl Bolle (1821–1909) 
 Bolotsky – Yuri L. Bolotsky
 Bonaparte – Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1794–1857) ornitologi
 Bonaparte – José Bonaparte (f. 1928) søramerikanske dinosauruser
 Bond – James Bond (1900–1989) ornitologi
 Bonelli – Franco Andrea Bonelli (1784–1830)
 Bonhote – J. Lewis Bonhote (1875–1922)
 Bonnaterre – Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1752–1804)
 Borkhausen – Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760–1806)
 Borodin – Nikolai Andreyevich Borodin (f. 1861)
 Borsuk-Bialynicka – Maria Magdalena Borsuk-Białynicka
 Bosc – Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828)
 Boucard – Adolphe Boucard (1839–1905) 
 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)
 A. E. Brehm – Alfred Brehm (1829–1884)
 C. L. Brehm – Christian Ludwig Brehm (1787–1864)
 Bremer – Otto Vasilievich Bremer (f. 1873)
 Bremi-Wolf – Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf (1791–1857)
 Brett-Surman – Michael K. Brett-Surman (f. 1950)
 Brevoort – James Carson Brevoort (1818–1887)
 Brewster – William Brewster (ornitholog) (1851–1919) ornitologi
 Briggs – John Carmon Briggs (f. 1920)
 Brischke – Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke (1814–1897)
 Brisson – Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723–1806)
 Brittinger – Christian Casimir Brittinger (1795–1869)
 Brodkorb – Pierce Brodkorb ornitologi, paleontologi
 Brongniart – Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847) 
 C. Brongniart – Charles Jules Edme Brongniart (1859–1899)
 Bronn – Heinrich Georg Bronn (1800–1862)
 Brooke – Victor Brooke (1843–1891)
 Brookes – Joshua Brookes (1761–1833)
 W. S. Brooks – Winthrop Sprague Brooks (1887–1965)
 Broom – Robert Broom (1866–1951)
 Brown – Barnum Brown (1873–1963)
 Bruch – Carl Friedrich Bruch (1789–1851)
 Bruguière – Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749–1798)
 Brullé – Gaspard Auguste Brullé (1809–1873)
 Brundin – Lars Zacharias Brundin
 Brünnich – Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827) 
 Brusatte – Stephen L. Brusatte (f. 1984)
 H. Bryant – Henry Bryant (1820–1867) 
 W. E. Bryant – Walter E. Bryant
 Bücherl – Wolfgang Bücherl
 Buckland – William Buckland (1784–1856)
 Buffetaut – Eric Buffetaut
 Buller – Walter Buller (1838–1906)
 Bunzel – Emanuel Bunzel (f. 1828)
 Burchell – William John Burchell (1782–1863)
 Burge – Donald L. Burge
 Burmeister – Hermann Burmeister (1807–1892)
 Burnett – Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800–1835)
 Burton – Frederic Burton
 Burns – John McLauren Burns
 Butler – Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844–1925)
 Buttikofer – Johann Büttikofer (1850–1929)
 Buturlin – Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin (1872–1938)

 C 

 Cabanis – Jean Cabanis (1816–1906)
 Cabrera – Angel Cabrera (naturalist) (1879–1960)
 Caldwell – David Keller Caldwell (f. 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)
 Cantor – Theodore Edward Cantor (1809–1860)
 Carlson – Bruce A. Carlson
 Carpenter – Kenneth Carpenter (f. 1949)
 Carriker – Melbourne Armstrong Carriker Jr. (1879–1965)
 Carvalho – Ismar de Souza Carvalho
 Cassin – John Cassin (1813–1869)
 Castelnau – François Louis Nompar de Caumat de Laporte Castelnau (1810–1880)
 Cervigón – Fernando Cervigón (f. 1930)
 Chabanaud – Paul Chabanaud (1876–1959)
 Chamberlin – Ralph Vary Chamberlin (1879–1967)
 Chapin – James Chapin (1889–1964)
 Chapman – Frank Chapman (1864–1945) 
 Charig – Alan Jack Charig (1927–1997)
 Charpentier – Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847)
 Chasen – Frederick Nutter Chasen (1896–1942)
 Chatterjee – Sankar Chatterjee (f. 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 
 E. Clark – Eugenie Clark (f. 1922) fisk
 H. L. Clark – Hubert Lyman Clark (1870–1947) 
 J. M. Clark – James Michael Clark 
 Clements – Kendall D. Clements
 Clemmer – Glenn H. Clemmer
 Clerck – Carl Alexander Clerck (1709–1765)
 Cloward – Karen C. Cloward
 Cochran – Doris M. Cochran
 Cockerell – Theodore Dru Alison Cockerell (1866–1948)
 Colbert – Edwin Harris Colbert (1905–2001)
 Colston – Peter R. Colston (f. 1935)
 Compagno – Leonard J. V. Compagno
 Conci – Cesare Conci (f. 1920)
 Conde – Otto Conde (1905–1944)
 Conover – Henry Boardman Conover (1892–1950)
 Conrad – Timothy Abbott Conrad (1803–1877)
 Coombs – Walter P. Coombs, Jr.
 Cooper – James Graham Cooper (1830–1902)
 Cooper – William Cooper (concholog) (1798–1864)
 Cope – Edward Drinker Cope (1840–1897) 
 Coquerel – Charles Coquerel (1822–1867)
 Coria – Rodolfo Coria
 Cornalia – Emilio Cornalia (1824–1882)
 Cory – Charles B. Cory (1857–1921)
 Costa – Achille Costa (1823–1898)
 O.G. Costa – Oronzio Gabriele Costa (1787–1867) entomologi
 W.J.E.M. Costa – Wilson José Eduardo Moreira da Costa 
 Coues – Elliott Coues (1842–1899)
 Cramer – Pieter Cramer (1721–?1779) entomologi
 F. Cramer – Frank Cramer
 Crampton – William G. R. Crampton
 Cretzschmar – Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786–1845) 
 Crewe – Henry Harpur Crewe (1828–1883)
 Crotch – George Robert Crotch (1842–1874)
 Crowson – Roy Crowson (1914–1999)
 Currie – Philip J. Currie (f. 1949)
 Curry Rogers – Kristina Curry Rogers (f. 1974)
 Curtis – John Curtis (entomolog) (1791–1862)
 Cuvier – Georges Cuvier (1769–1832) virveldyr, paleontologi
 F. Cuvier – Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838)
 Czerkas – Stephen A. Czerkas

 D 

 da Costa – Emanuel Mendez da Costa (1717–1791)  
 da Silva – Maria Nazareth F. da Silva
 Dahl – Friedrich Dahl (1856–1929)
 Dahlbom – Anders Gustav Dahlbom (1808–1859)
 Dale – James Charles Dale (1792–1872)
 Dall – W.H. Dall (1845–1927)
 Dalla Torre – Karl Wilhelm von Dalla Torre (1850–1928)
 Dana – James Dwight Dana (1813–1895)
 Daudin – François Marie Daudin (1774–1804)
 David – Armand David (1826–1900)
 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, comte de Castelnau (1810–1880)
 de Filippi – Filippo de Filippi (1814–1867)
 de Geer – Charles De Geer (1720–1778)
 de Hann – Wilhem de Haan (1801–1855)
 de Kay – James Ellsworth De Kay (1792–1851)
 de Man – Johannes Govertus de Man (1850–1930)
 de Naurois – Abbé René de Naurois (b. 1906)
 de Nicéville – Lionel de Nicéville (1852–1901)
 Bory de Saint-Vincent – Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent (1780–1846)
 de Valai – Silvina de Valai
 de Vis – Charles Walter De Vis (1829–1915)
 de Winton – William Edward de Winton 
 Delacour – Jean Theodore Delacour (1890–1985) 
 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)
 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 
 Doherty – William Doherty (1857-1901)
 Dollman – Guy Dollman (1886–1942)
 Dollo – Louis Dollo (1857–1931)
 Donis., Donisthorpe – Horace Donisthorpe (1870–1951)
 Donovan – Edward Donovan (1768–1837)
 d'Orbigny – Alcide d'Orbigny (1802–1857)
 Dong – Zhiming Dong (f. 1937)
 Doria – Giacomo Doria (1840–1913)
 Doubleday – Henry Doubleday (1808–1875)
 Drury – Dru Drury (1725–1804) 
 du Bus de Gisignies – Bernard du Bus de Gisignies (1808–1874)
 du Chaillu – Paul Belloni Du Chaillu (1831–1903)
 C. F. Dubois – Charles Frédéric Dubois (1804–1867)
 Dufour – Léon Dufour (1780–1865)
 Duftschmid – Caspar Erasmus Duftschmid (1767–1821)
 Duméril – André Marie Constant Duméril (1774–1860)
 Dumont – Charles Dumont de Sainte Croix (1758–1830)
 Duncker – Paul Georg Egmont Duncker (1870–1953)
 Duponchel – Philogène Auguste Joseph Duponchel (1774–1846)
 Duvernoy – Georges Louis Duvernoy (1777–1855)
 Dwight – Jonathan Dwight (1858–1929)

 E 

 Earle – Sylvia A. Earle (f. 1935)
 Eaton – Jeffrey Glenn Eaton (f. 1948)
 Edwards – William Henry Edwards (1822–1909)
 Ehrenberg – Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795–1876)
 Eichwald – Karl Eichwald (1795–1876)
 Eigenmann – Carl H. Eigenmann (1863–1927)
 R.S. Eigenmann, R. Smith – Rosa Smith Eigenmann (1858–1947)
 Ekrem – Torbjørn Ekrem
 Ellerman – John Ellerman (1910–1973)
 Elliot – Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835–1915)
 Emery – Carlo Emery (1848–1925)
 A.R. Emery – Alan R. Emery
 Enslin – Eduard Enslin (1879–1970)
 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) 
 Evans - William Harry Evans (1876-1956)
 Evermann – Barton Warren Evermann (1853–1932)
 Eversmann – Eduard Friedrich Eversmann (1794–1860)
 Evseenko – Sergei Afanasievich Evseenko 
 Eyton – Thomas Campbell Eyton (1809–1880)

 F 

 Fabricius – Johann Christian Fabricius (1745–1808)
 Fairmaire – Leon Fairmaire (1820–1906)
 Falla – Robert Alexander Falla (1901–1979)
 Fallén – Carl Frederick Fallén (1764–1830)
 Feinberg – M. Norma Feinberg
 C. Felder – Cajetan Freiherr von Felder (1814–1894) sommerfugler
 R. Felder – Rudolf Felder (1842–1871) sommerfugler
 Fernandes-Matioli – Flora Maria de Campos Fernandes-Matioli
 Ferrari-Perez  – Fernando Ferrari-Perez (f. 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)
 G. Fischer, Fischer de Waldheim, Fischer von Waldheim – Johann Fischer von Waldheim (1771–1853)
 J. Fischer – Johann Baptist Fischer (f.1832)
 J. G. Fischer – Johann Gustav Fischer (1819–1889)
 Fitzinger – Leopold Fitzinger (1802–1884)
 J. H. Fleming – James Henry Fleming (1872–1940)
 Fleming – John Fleming (naturalist) (1785–1857)
 Fonscolombe – Baron Etienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyle Boyer de Fonscolombe (1772–1853)
 Forbes – Henry Ogg Forbes (1851–1932)
 Forel – Auguste-Henri Forel (1848–1931)
 Forsius – Runar Forsius (1884–1935)
 Forsskål – Peter Forsskål (1732–1763)
 Forsyth Major – Charles Immanuel Forsyth Major (1843–1923)
 Forster – Johann Reinhold Forster (1729–1798}
 Forster – Raymond Robert Forster (1922–2000) edderkopper
 C. A. Forster – Catherine A. Forster 
 G. Forster – Georg Forster (1754–1794)
 Förster – Arnold Förster (1810–1884)
 Fourmanoir – Pierre Fourmanoir (f. 1924)
 Fowler – Henry Weed Fowler (1879–1965)
 Fox – Wade Fox (1920–1964)
 Fraas – Eberhard Fraas (1862–1915)
 Franganillo-Balboa – Pelegrin Franganillo-Balboa (1873–1955)
 Franklin – James Franklin (naturforsker) (?1783–1834)
 Fraser – Louis Fraser (1810–1866)
 F. C. Fraser – Frederick C. Fraser
 Freyer – Christian Friedrich Freyer (1794 – 1885) entomologi, mest sommerfugler
 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)
 Fuessly, Füsslins – Johann Kaspar Füssli (1743–1786)

 G 

 Gadow – Hans Friedrich Gadow (1855–1928)
 Gahan – Charles Joseph Gahan (1862–1939)
 Gaimard – Joseph Paul Gaimard (1796–1858)
 F. Galton, Galton – Francis Galton (1822–1911)
 P. M. Galton – Peter Galton 
 Gambel – William Gambel (1823–1849)
 Gao – Keqin Gao (f. 1955)
 Garman – Samuel Garman (1846–1927)
 Garnot – Prosper Garnot (1794–1838)
 Garstang – Walter Garstang (1868–1949)
 Gaston – Robert Gaston (f. 1967)
 Gasparini – Zulma Brandoni de Gasparini
 Gauthier – Jacques Gauthier (f. 1948)
 Gegenbaur – Carl Gegenbaur (1825–1903)
 Gené – Giuseppe Gené (1800–1847)
 Geoffroy — Claude Joseph Geoffroy (1685–1752)
 Geoffroy — Étienne Louis Geoffroy (1725–1810)
 É. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772–1844)
 I. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire – Isidore Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1805–1861)
 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 ichthyology
 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)
 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) 
 A. A. Gould – Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866) 
 Gould – John Gould (1804–1881) fugler, pattedyr
 Grandidier – Alfred Grandidier (1836–1921)
 Granger – Walter W. Granger (1872–1941)
 Grant – Chapman Grant (1887–1983) herpetologi
 Grant – Ulysses S. Grant IV (1893–1977) malakologi, paleontologi
 Gravenhorst – Johann Ludwig Christian Gravenhorst (1777–1857) 
 G. R. Gray – George Robert Gray (1808–1872) entomologi, ornitologi
 J. E. Gray – John Edward Gray (1800–1875)
 Gregory – William K. Gregory (1876–1970)
 Greve – Lita Greve Jensen (f. 1937)
 Griffith – Edward Griffith (1790–1858)
 Grinnell – Joseph Grinnell (1877–1939)
 Griscom – Ludlow Griscom (1890–1959)
 Grobben – Karl Grobben (1854–1945)
 A. Grote, Grote – Augustus Radcliffe Grote (1841–1903) entomologi
 H. Grote – Hermann Grote ornitologi
 Grumm-Grzhimailo – G. E. Grumm-Grshimailo (1860—1936) entomologi
 Guenee, Guenée – Achille Guenée (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)
 J. H. Gurney Jr – John Henry Gurney Jr. (1848–1922)
 Gyllenhal – Leonard Gyllenhaal (1752–1840)

 H 

 Hablizl – Carl Ludwig Hablizl (1752–1821)
 Hadiaty – Renny Hadiaty
 Hadie – Wartono Hadie
 Haeckel – Ernst Haeckel (1834–1919)
 Haenni – Jean-Paul Haenni
 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 (1808–1860) herpetologi
 Hamilton, Hamilton-Buchanan – Francis Buchanan-Hamilton (1762–1829) 
 Hammer – William R. Hammer
 Hampson – George Francis Hampson (1860–1936)
 Handlirsch – Anton Handlirsch (1865–1935)
 Hansemann – Johann Wilhelm Adolf Hansemann (1784–1862)
 Hansen – Hans Jacob Hansen (1855–1936) arthropods
 Harcourt – Edward William Vernon Harcourt (1825–1891)
 Hardwicke – Thomas Hardwicke (1755–1835)
 Hardy – D. Elmo Hardy
 Harlan – Richard Harlan (1796–1843) 
 Harper – Francis Harper (1886–1972)
 Harris, M. Harris – Moses Harris (1734–1785)
 T.W. Harris – Thaddeus Williams Harris (1795–1856)
 Harrison – Colin James Oliver Harrison (1926 – 2003)
 Hartert – Ernst Hartert (1859–1933)
 Hartig – Theodor Hartig (1805–1880)
 Hartlaub – Gustav Hartlaub (1814–1900)
 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 
 Heaney – Lawrence Richard Heaney 
 Heckel – Johann Jakob Heckel (1790–1857)
 Heemstra – Phillip C. Heemstra
 Hellén – Wolter Edward Hellén (1890–1979)
 Hellmayr – Carl Edward Hellmayr (1878–1944)
 Hemprich – Wilhelm Hemprich (1796–1825)
 Henle – Friedrich Gustav Jakob Henle (1809–1885)
 Hennig – Willi Hennig
 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)
 Hertlein – Leo George Hertlein (1898–1972) malakologi, paleontologi
 Heude – Pierre Marie Heude (1836–1902)
 Heuglin – Theodor von Heuglin (1824–1876)
 Hewitson – William Chapman Hewitson (1806–1878)
 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)
 Hirohito – Hirohito (1901–1989)
 Hiyama – Yoshio Hiyama (f. 1909)
 Hodgson – Brian Houghton Hodgson (1800–1894)
 Hoese – Douglass F. Hoese
 Hoffmannsegg – Johann Centurius Hoffmannsegg (1766–1849)
 Hoffstetter – Robert Hoffstetter 
 Holbrook – John Edwards Holbrook (1794–1871)
 Holland – William Jacob Holland (1848–1932)
 Holm – Åke Holm (1909–1989)
 Holmberg – Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg (1852–1937)
 Holthuis – Lipke Bijdeley Holthuis (f.1921)
 Hombron – Jacques Bernard Hombron (1798–1852)
 Horner – Jack Horner (paleontolog) (f. 1946)
 Horsfield – Thomas Horsfield (1773–1859)
 Hose – Charles Hose (1863–1929)
 Houttuyn – Martinus Houttuyn (1720–1798)
 Howard – Hildegarde Howard (1901–1998)
 A. H. Howell – Arthur H. Howell (1872–1940)
 Hoyle – William Evans Hoyle (1855–1926)
 Hu – Yaoming Hu 
 Hübner – Jacob Hübner (1761–1826)
 Hubbs – Carl Leavitt Hubbs (1894–1979)
 Huene, von Huene – Friedrich von Huene (1875–1969)
 Hulke – John Whitaker Hulke (1830–1895)
 Hume – Allan Octavian Hume (1829–1912)
 Humphrey – Philip Strong Humphrey (f. 1926)
 Hunt – Adrian P. Hunt
 Hutt – Steve Hutt
 J.S. Huxley – Julian Sorell Huxley (1887–1975)
 T.H. Huxley – Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)
 Hwang – Sunny H. Hwang

 I 

 Ida – Hitoshi Ida (f. 1940)
 Iredale – Tom Iredale (1880–1972)
 Illiger – Johann Karl Wilhelm Illiger (1775–1813)
 Ivantsoff – Walter Ivantsoff
 Ivie – Wilton Ivie
 Iwai – Tamotsu Iwai

 J 

 Jacquin – Nicolaus Joseph von Jacquin (1727–1817)
 Jacquinot – Honoré Jacquinot (1815–1887)
 Jain – Sohan Lal Jain
 Jakowlew – Alexander Iwanowitsch Jakowlew (1863–1909)
 Jameson – Robert Jameson (1774–1854)
 Janensch – Werner Janensch (1878–1969)
 Janson – Oliver Erichson Janson (1850–1926)
 Jardine – William Jardine (1800–1874)
 Jebb – Matthew H. P. Jebb
 Jenkins – James Travis Jenkins (1876–1959)
 A. P. Jenkins – Aaron Peter Jenkins
 Jensen – James A. Jensen
 Jerdon – Thomas C. Jerdon (1811–1872)
 Q. Ji – Qiang Ji
 S. Ji – Shu-an Ji
 Jiménez de la Espada  – Marcos Jiménez de la Espada (1831–1898)
 Jocqué – Rudy Jocqué
 Johanson – Kjell Arne Johanson
 G. D. Johnson – G. David Johnson
 Jordan – David Starr Jordan (1851–1931)
 K. Jordan – Karl Jordan (1861 – 1959) 
 Jouanin – Christian Jouanin

 K 

 Karsch – Friedrich Karsch
 Katayama – Masao Katayama (f. 1912)
 Kaup – Johann Jakob Kaup (1803–1873)
 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)
 Kielan-Jaworowska – Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska (f. 1925)
 King – Philip Parker King (1793–1856)
 Kinnear – Norman Boyd Kinnear (1882–1957)
 Kirby – William Kirby (1759–1850)
 W. F. Kirby – William Forsell Kirby (1844–1912)
 Kirkaldy – George Willis Kirkaldy 
 Kirkland – James Ian Kirkland (f. 1954)
 Kittlitz – Heinrich von Kittlitz (1799–1874) 
 Kjaerandsen – Jostein Kjærandsen
 O. Kleinschmidt – Otto Kleinschmidt (1870–1954)
 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
 C. L. Koch – Carl Ludwig Koch (1778–1857)
 L. Koch – Ludwig Carl Christian Koch (1825–1908) 
 Koelz – Walter Norman Koelz (1895–1989)
 Kolbe – Hermann Julius Kolbe (1855–1939)
 Kollar – Vincenz Kollar (1797–1860)
 Konings -- Ad Konings 
 Konow – Friedrich Wilhelm Konow (1842–1908)
 Kotlyar – Aleksandr Nikolaevich Kotlyar
 Kotthaus – Adolf Kotthaus
 Kraglievich – Lucas Kraglievich
 Kraatz – Ernst Gustav Kraatz (1831–1909)
 Krauss – Friedrich von Krauss (1812–1890)
 Krauss – Hermann August Krauss (1848–1939) 
 Krabbe – Niels Krabbe (f. 1951)
 Krefft – Johann Ludwig Gerard Krefft(1830–1881)
 Kriechbaumer – Joseph Kriechbaumer (1819–1902)
 Krohn – August David Krohn (1803 – 1891) 
 Ksepka – Daniel T. Ksepka
 Kuhl – Heinrich Kuhl (1797–1821)
 Kuiter – Rudolf Herman Kuiter (f. 1943)
 Kulczynski – Wladislaus Kulczynski 
 Kuroda – Nagamichi Kuroda (1889–1978)
 Kurzanov – Sergei Mikhailovich Kurzanov

 L 

 L – Carl von Linné (1707–1778)
 Labillardière – Jacques Labillardière (1755–1834)
 Lacépède – Bernard Germain Étienne de la Ville, Comte de Lacépède (1756–1825)
 Lacordaire – Jean Theodore Lacordaire (1801–1870)
 Lafresnaye – Frédéric de Lafresnaye (1783–1861)
 Laicharting – Johann Nepomuk von Laicharting (1754–1797)
 Lamarck – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck (1744–1829)
 Lamanna – Matthew Carl Lamanna 
 Lambe – Lawrence Morris Lambe (1863–1919)
 Lambrecht – Kálmán Lambrecht
 Lameere – Auguste Lameere (1864–1942)
 Landbeck – Christian Ludwig Landbeck (1807–1890)
 Langer – Max Cardoso Langer
 Langston – Wann Langston, Jr. (f. 1921)
 Laporte – François Louis Nompar de Caumont de Laporte (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 
 Lawrence – George Newbold Lawrence (1806–1855)
 Laxmann – Erich Laxmann (1737–1796)
 Layard – Edgar Leopold Layard (1824–1900)
 LeConte – John Lawrence LeConte (1825–1883)
 Leach – William Elford Leach (1790–1836)
 Leach – Edwin S. Leach (1878–1971)
 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) 
 Le Leouff – Jean Le Leouff
 Lembeye – Juan Lembeye (1816–1889)
 Lepeletier – Amédée Louis Michel Lepeletier (1770–1845)
 Lesson – René Primevère Lesson (1794–1849)
 Le Souef – William Henry Dudley Le Souef (1856–1923)
 Lesueur – Charles Alexandre Lesueur (1778–1846)
 Leuckart - Rudolf Leuckart (1822–1898)
 Leussler – R. A. Leussler
 C.K. (also C.-K or C.) Li – Chuankui Li
 D.Q. (also D.-Q. or D.) Li – Daqing Li
 Lichtenstein – Martin Lichtenstein (1780–1857)
 Lienig – Madame Lienig (?-1855)
 Lilljeborg – Wilhelm Lilljeborg (1816–1908)
 Link – Johann Heinrich Friedrich Link (1767–1850)
 Linnaeus – Carl von Linné (Carolus Linnaeus) (1707–1778)
 Linsley – Earle Gorton Linsley (1910–2000)
 Lintner – Joseph Albert Lintner (1822–1898)
 Loche – Victor Loche (1806–1863)
 Lönnberg – Einar Lönnberg (1864–1942)
 Lowe – Richard Thomas Lowe (1802–1874)
 Lowe – Percy Lowe (1870–1948)
 Lü – Junchang Lü
 Lubbock – John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury (1834–1913)
 Lucas – Hippolyte Lucas (1814–1899)
 F.A. Lucas – Frederic Augustus Lucas (1852–1929)
 S.G. Lucas – Spencer G. Lucas 
 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 

 Mabille – Jules François Mabille (1831–1904)
 Mackovicky – Peter J. Mackovicky
 Macleay – William Sharp Macleay (1792–1865)
 Makela – Robert R. Makela (1940–1987)
 Malaise – René Malaise (1892–1978)
 Maleev – Evgenii Aleksandrovich Maleev (1915–1966)
 Mannerheim – Carl Gustaf von Mannerheim (1797–1854) – biller
 Mantell – Gideon Mantell (1790–1852)
 Marcus – Ernst Marcus (1856–1928)
 Marinescu – Florian Marinescu
 Marples – Brian J. Marples
 Marsh – Othniel Charles Marsh (1831–1899)
 Martill – David Michael Martill
 Martin – William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1798–1864) – mest pattedyr
 C. Martin – Claro Martin
 Martinez – Ruben D. Martinez
 Maryanska – Teresa Maryańska 
 Massy – Anne Letitia Massy
 Mateus – Octávio Mateus (f. 1975)
 Mathews – Gregory Mathews (1876–1949)
 Matley – Charles Alfred Matley (f. 1866)
 Matschie – Paul Matschie (1861–1926)
 Matsubara – Kiyomatsu Matsubara (1907–1968)
 Matsumura – Shonen Matsumura (1872–1960)
 Matsuura – Keiichi Matsuura
 Mayr – Ernst Mayr (1904–2005) – mest fugler, forhistoriske dyr
 G. Mayr – Gerald Mayr – mest fugler, forhistoriske dyr
 McCulloch – Alan Riverstone McCulloch (1885–1925)
 McLachlan – Robert McLachlan (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 Méhely (1862–1946)
 Meigen – Johann Wilhelm Meigen (1764–1845)
 Mello-Leitão – Cândido Firmino de Mello-Leitão (1886–1948)
 Menezes – Naercio Aquino de Menezes (b. 1937)
 Ménétries – Édouard Ménétries (1802–1861) 
 Merrem – Blasius Merrem (1761–1824)
 Merriam – Clinton Hart Merriam (1855–1942)
 Metschnikoff – Ilya Ilyich Mechnikov (1845–1916)
 Meyen – Franz Meyen (1804–1840)
 Meyer, von Meyer – Christian Erich Hermann von Meyer (1801–1869) – paleontologi
 A.B. Meyer – Adolf Bernhard Meyer (1840–1911)
 F.A. Meyer, Meyer – Friedrich Albrecht Anton Meyer (1768–1795) – fugler, aper
 Meyer de Schauensee – Rodolphe Meyer de Schauensee (1901–1984) – fugler
 Meyrick – Edward Meyrick (1854–1938) 
 Michener – Charles Duncan Michener (f. 1918)
 Middendorf, Midd. – Alexander von Middendorff (1815–1894)
 Midgley –  Steven Hamar Midgley
 Miles – Clifford Miles 
 Miller – Gerrit Smith Miller (1869–1956) – pattedyr
 A.H. Miller – Alden H. Miller
 J.F. Miller – John Frederick Miller (1759–1796) 
 L.H. Miller – Loye H. Miller – mest fugler, paleontologi
 R.R. Miller – Robert Rush Miller (1916–2003) – fisk
 Millet – Pierre-Aimé Millet (1783–1873)
 Milne-Edwards – Henri Milne-Edwards (1800–1885) – pattedyr, krepsdyr 
 A. Milne-Edwards – Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900) – fugler
 Milner – Angela C. Milner
 Miranda-Ribeiro – Alípio de Miranda Ribeiro (1874–1939)
 P. Miranda-Ribeiro – Paulo de Miranda Ribeiro (1901–1965)
 Mitchell – Thomas Mitchell (1792–1855)
 Mitchill – Samuel Latham Mitchill (1764–1831) – fisk
 Mitra – Tridib Ranjan Mitra
 Mizuno – Nobuhiko Mizuno 
 Mochizuki – Kenji Mochizuki
 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) – sommerfugler
 J.C. Moore – Joseph Curtis Moore (1914–1995)
 Mori – Tamezo Mori (?-1940)
 Moreno – Perito Francisco Moreno (1852–1919)
 Morrow – James Edwin Morrow, Jr. (f. 1918)
 Mortensen – Ole Theodor Jensen Mortensen (1868–1952)
 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) – mest fisk
 O. F. Müller – Otto Friedrich Müller (1730–1784) – entomologi, Skandinavia
 S. Müller – Salomon Müller (1804–1864) – mest faunaen i Indonesia
 Mulsant – Étienne Mulsant (1797–1880)
 Munday – Philip L. Munday
 Murphy – Robert Cushman Murphy (1887–1973)
 Murray – James A. Murray
 Muttkowski –  Richard Anthony Muttkowski (f. 1887)

 N 

 Nabokov – Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
 Naef – Adolf Naef (1883–1949) 
 Nagao – Takumi Nagao
 Naish – Darren Naish 
 J. F. Naumann – Johann Friedrich Naumann (1780–1857)
 Natterer – Johann Natterer (1787–1843)
 Navás – R. P. Longinos Navás (1858–1938)
 Nehring – Alfred Nehring (1845–1904)
 Nelson – Edward William Nelson (1855–1934) 
 Nessov – Lev Alexandrovich Nessov (1947–1995)
 Neumoegen – Berthold Neumoegen (f. 1895)
 Newman – Edward Newman (1801–1876)
 A. Newton – Alfred Newton (1829–1907)
 E. Newton – Edward Newton (1832–1897)
 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 (f. 1957)
 Norman – John Richardson Norman (1899–1944)
 D. Norman – David B. Norman (f. 1930)
 North – Alfred John North (1855–1917)
 Novas – Fernando Emilio Novas 
 Nowinski – Aleksander Nowiński 
 Nuttall – Thomas Nuttall (1786–1859)
 Nylander – William Nylander (1822–1899)

 O 

 Oberholser – Harry Church Oberholser (1870–1963)
 Oberthür – Charles Oberthür (1845–1924)
 Ochiai – Akira Ochiai (f. 1923)
 Ogilby – William Ogilby (1808–1873)
 J.D. Ogilby – James Douglas Ogilby (1853–1925)
 Ogilvie-Grant – William Robert Ogilvie-Grant (1863–1924)
 Ognev – Sergej Ognev (1886–1951)
 Oguma – Mamoru Oguma (1885–1971)
 Okamoto – Makoto Okamoto
 Oken – Lorenz Oken (1779–1851)
 Okumura – Teiichi Okumura
 Olfers – Ignaz von Olfers (1793–1872)
 Oliver – Walter Oliver (1883–1957)
 Olivi – Giuseppe Olivi (1769–1795)
 Olivier – Guillaume-Antoine Olivier (1756–1814)
 Olson – Storrs Olson
 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
 Ostrom – John Ostrom (1928–2005)
 Oudemans – Antoon Cornelis Oudemans (1858–1943)
 Oustalet – Emile Oustalet (1844–1905)
 Owen – Richard Owen (1804–1892)

 P 

 Packard – Alpheus Spring Packard (1839–1905)
 Pallas – Peter Simon Pallas (1741–1811)
 Palmer – Theodore Sherman Palmer (1868–1955)
 Panzer – Georg Wolfgang Franz Panzer (1755–1829) entomologi
 Papp – László Papp (f. 1946)
 Parenti – Lynne R. Parenti
 Parks – William Arthur Parks (1868–1939)
 Patzner – Robert A. Patzner
 Paul – Gregory S. Paul (f. 1954)
 Paykull – Gustaf von Paykull (1757 – 1826)
 Peale – Titian Peale (1799–1885)
 Pearson – Oliver Paynie Pearson (1915–2003)
 Pelzeln – August von Pelzeln (1825–1891)
 Pennant – Thomas Pennant (1726–1798)
 M. L. Penrith – Mary Louise Penrith (f. 1942)
 Perez-Moreno – Bernardino P. Pérez Moreno
 Perle – Altangerel Perle (f. 1945)
 Péron – François Péron (1775–1810) 
 Perty – Joseph Anton Maximillian Perty (1804–1884)
 Peters – Wilhelm Karl Hartwich Peters (1815–1883)
 D.S. Peters – Dieter Stefan Peters paleontologi, ornitologi
 J.L. Peters – James Lee Peters (1889–1952) ornitologi
 Petrunkevitch – Alexander Petrunkevitch (1875–1964)
 Philippi – Rodolfo Amando Philippi (1808–1904)
 Pickard-Cambridge – Octavius Pickard-Cambridge (1828–1917)
 Pilsbry – Henry Augustus Pilsbry (1862–1957)
 Platnick – Norman I. Platnick
 Pocock – Reginald Innes Pocock (1863–1947)
 Poda – Nikolaus Poda von Neuhaus (1723–1798) entomologi
 Poey – Felipe Poey (1799–1891)
 Poeppig – Eduard Friedrich Poeppig (1798–1868)
 Pol – Diego Pol
 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 

 Quatrefages – Jean Louis Armand de Quatrefages de Bréau (1810–1892)
 Quoy – Jean René Constant Quoy (1790–1869)

 R 

 Raath – Michael A. Raath
 Rachmatika – Ike Rachmatika
 Rackett – Thomas Rackett (1757–1841)
 Radcliffe – Lewis Radcliffe (1880–1950)
 Radde – Gustav Radde (1831–1903)
 Rafinesque – Constantine Samuel Rafinesque-Schmaltz (1783–1840)
 Raffles – Thomas Stamford Raffles (1781–1826)
 Rajasuriya – Arjan Rajasuriya
 Rambur – Jules Pièrre Rambur (1801–1870)
 Ramos – Robson Tamar da Costa Ramos
 E. P. Ramsay – Edward Pierson Ramsay (1842–1916)
 Rand – Austin L. Rand (1905–1982)
 Randall – John E. Randall (f. 1924)
 Rathbun – Mary Rathbun (1860–1943)
 Rathke – Martin Heinrich Rathke (1793–1860) 
 Ratzeburg – Julius Theodor Christian Ratzeburg (1801–1871)
 Rauhut – Oliver W. M. Rauhut
 Razoumowsky – Grigory Razumovsky (1759–1837)
 Reakirt – Tryon Reakirt 
 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 (f. 1919)
 Renyaan – Samuel J. Renyaan
 Retzius – Anders Jahan Retzius (1742–1821)
 Riabinin – Anatoly Nikolaevich Riabinin 
 Rich – Thomas Hewitt Rich
 P. Rich – see Vickers-Rich
 Richardson – John Richardson (1787–1865)
 Richmond – Charles Wallace Richmond (1868–1932)
 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
 Roberts – Austin Roberts (1883–1948)
 Robertson – David Ross Robertson (f. 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)
 Rohwer – Sievert Allen Rohwer (1887–1951)
 Roniewicz – Ewa Roniewicz
 Ross – Landon T. Ross (f.1942)
 Rossi – Pietro Rossi
 Rossignol – Martial Rossignol
 Rossman – Douglas Athon Rossman (f. 1936)
 Rothschild – Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild (1868–1937)
 Rottemburg – S.A. von Rottemburg (?)
 Roxas – Hilario Atanacio Roxas (f. 1896)
 Rozhdestvensky – Anatole Rozhdestvensky 
 Rudolphi – Karl Rudolphi (1771–1832)
 Rüppell – Eduard Rüppell (1794–1884)
 Russell – Dale Alan Russell (f. 1937)
 Ryder – John Adam Ryder (1852–1895)

 S 

 Sakamoto – Katsuichi Sakamoto
 Salgado – Leonardo J. Salgado
 Salter – John William Salter (1820–1869)
 Salvadori – Tommaso Salvadori (1835–1923)
 Salvin – Osbert Salvin (1835–1898)
 Samouelle – George Samouelle (1790–1846)
 Sampson – Scott D. Sampson 
 Sanborn – Colin Campbell Sanborn (1897–1962)
 Santschi – Felix Santschi (1872–1940) 
 G. O. Sars – Georg Sars (1837–1927)
 M. Sars – Michael Sars (1809–1869) 
 Satunin – Konstantin Alexeevitsch Satunin (1863–1915)
 Saunders – Howard Saunders (1835–1907)
 Saussure – Henri 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 (f. 1876)
 Say – Thomas Say (1787–1843)
 Schaum – Hermann Rudolf Schaum (1819–1865)
 Schinz – Heinrich Rudolf Schinz (1771–1861)
 Schiapelli – Rita Delia Schiapelli 
 Schiffermüller – Ignaz Schiffermüller (1727–1806) 
 Schiödte – Jörgen Matthias Christian Schiödte (1815–1884)
 Schlaikjer – Erich Maren Schlaikjer (f. 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 Schoepf (1752–1800)
 Schönherr – Carl Johan Schönherr (1772 – 1848)
 Schomburgk – Robert Hermann Schomburgk (1804–1865)
 Schrank – Franz von Paula 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)
 P. L. Sclater – Philip Sclater (1829–1913)
 W. L. Sclater – William Lutley Sclater (1863–1944)
 Scopoli – Giovanni Antonio Scopoli (1723–1788)
 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 (f. 1957)
 Serville – Jean Guillaume Audinet Serville (1775–1858)
 Sevastianov – Aleksandr Fiodorovich Sevastianov 
 Severtzov – Nikolai Alekseevich Severtzov (1827–1885)
 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)
 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 – George Gaylord Simpson (1902–1984)
 Skartveit - John Skartveit
 Slipinski – Stanislaw Adam Ślipiński
 Smith – Andrew Smith (zoolog) (1797–1872) Zoologi – Sør-Afrika
 Hamilton Smith – Charles Hamilton Smith (1776–1859)
 E. Smith – Edgar Albert Smith (1847–1916) malacologi
 F. Smith – Frederick Smith (entomolog) (1805–1879) entomologi
 J.E. Smith – James Edward Smith (1759–1828) sommerfugler
 J.L.B. Smith – James Leonard Brierley Smith (1897–1968) ichthyologi
 M.A. Smith – Malcolm Arthur Smith (1875–1958) herpetologi
 S.I. Smith – Sidney Irving Smith (1843–1926) Crustacea
 W.L. Smith – W. Leo Smith
 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)
 Spallanzani – Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729–1799)
 Sparrman – Anders Sparrman (1781–1826)
 Spencer – Walter Baldwin Spencer (1860–1929)
 Spinola – Maximilian Spinola (1780–1857)
 Spix – Johann Baptist von Spix (1781–1826)
 Stahnke – Herbert Ludwig Stahnke (f. 1902)
 Stainton – Henry Tibbats Stainton (1822–1892)
 Starks – Edwin Chapin Starks (1867–1932)
 Statius Muller – Philipp Ludwig Statius Muller (1725–1776)
 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)
 D. J. Stewart – Donald J. Stewart
 Stolzmann – Jean Stanislaus Stolzmann (1854–1928)
 Stoll – Caspar Stoll (f. 1795)
 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) entomologi
 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 (f. 1956)
 Sullivan – Robert M. Sullivan 
 Sulzer – Johann Heinrich Sulzer (1735–1813)
 Sundevall – Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801–1875)
 Swainson – William Swainson (1789–1855)
 Swann – Henry Kirke Swann (1871–1926)
 Swinhoe – Robert Swinhoe (1836–1877)
 Sykes – William Henry Sykes (1790–1872)
 Sæther – Ole Anton Sæther (f. 1936)

 T 

 Taczanowski – Wladyslaw Taczanowski (1819–1890)
 Talbot – Mignon Talbot (1869–1950)
 Taliev – Dmitrii Nikolaevich Taliev (1908–1952)
 Tang – Zhilu Tang
 Taquet – Philippe Taquet
 Taschenberg – Ernst Ludwig Taschenberg (1818–1898)
 Tate – George Henry Hamilton Tate (1894–1953)
 W. M. Tattersall – Walter Medley Tattersall (1882–1948) 
 Taylor – Edward Harrison Taylor (1889–1978)
 L. R. Taylor – Leighton R. Taylor
 Temminck – Coenraad Jacob Temminck (1778–1858)
 Templeton – Robert Templeton (1802–1892)
 Thayer – John Eliot Thayer (1862–1933)
 Theischinger – Günther Theischinger (f. 1940)
 Thiele – Johannes Thiele (1860–1935) 
 Thomas – Oldfield Thomas (1858–1929) 
 Thomson – Carl Gustaf Thomson (1824–1899)
 Thorell – Tord Tamerlan Teodor Thorell (1830–1901)
 Thunberg – Carl Peter Thunberg (1743–1828) entomologi
 Tjakrawidjaja – Agus Tjakrawidjaja
 Ticehurst – Claud Buchanan Ticehurst (1881–1941)
 Tidwell – Virginia Tidwell
 Timberlake – Philip H. Timberlake (1883–1981)
 Tischbein – Peter Friedrich Ludwig Tischbein (1813–1883)
 Todd – Walter Edmond Clyde Todd (1874–1969)
 Toledo-Piza – Mônica de Toledo-Piza Ragazzo 
 Tomes – Robert Fisher Tomes (1823–1904)
 Townsend – John Kirk Townsend (1809–1851)
 C. H. Townsend – Charles Haskins Townsend (1859–1944)
 Traill – Thomas Stewart Traill (1781–1862)
 Traylor – Melvin Alvah Traylor Jr. (f.1915)
 Treitschke — Georg Friedrich Treitschke (1776–1842)
 Trewavas – Ethelwynn Trewavas (1900–1993)
 Tristram – Henry Baker Tristram (1822–1906)
 Troschel – Franz Hermann Troschel (1810–1882)
 Trouessart – Édouard Louis Trouessart (1842–1927)
 True – Frederick W. True (1858–1914)
 Trybom – Filip Trybom (1850–1913)
 Tschudi – Johann Jakob von Tschudi (1818–1889)
 Tsogtbaatar – Khishigjaw Tsogtbaatar
 Tumanova – Tat'yana Alekseyevna Tumanova
 Turton – William Turton (1762–1835)
 Tutt – James William Tutt / J. W. Tutt (1858–1911)
 Tytler – Robert Christopher Tytler (1818–1872)

 U 

 Uhler – Philip Reese Uhler (1835–1913)

 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
 E. Verreaux – Edouard Verreaux (1810–1868)
 J. Verreaux – Jules Verreaux (1807–1873)
 Verrill – Addison Emery Verrill (1839–1926)
 Vickaryous – Matthew P. Vickaryous
 Vickers-Rich, P. Rich – Patricia Vickers-Rich (f. 1944)
 Vieillot – Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (1748–1831)
 Vieweg – C. F. Vieweg
 Vigors – Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785–1840)
 Villers – Charles Joseph de Villers (1726–1797)
 Vladykov – Vadim Dmitrij Vladykov (1898–1986)

 W 

 Wagler – Johann Georg Wagler (1800–1832)
 Wagner – Johann Andreas Wagner (1797–1861)
 Wahlberg – Johan August Wahlberg (1810–1859)
 Walbaum – Johann Julius Walbaum (1724–1799)
 Walch – Johann Ernst Immanuel Walch (1725–1778)
 Walckenaer – Charles Athanase Walckenaer (1771–1852)
 Walker – Edmund Murton Walker (1877–1969)
 A. Walker – Alick Donald Walker (1925–1999) paleontologi
 C.A. Walker – Cyril Alexander Walker paleontologi
 F. Walker – Francis Walker (entomolog) (1809–1874) entomologi
 Wall – Frank Wall (1868–1950)
 Wallace – Alfred Russel Wallace (1823–1913)
 Wallengren – Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren (1823–1894)
 Walsh – Benjamin Dann Walsh (1808–1869) 
 Waltl – Joseph Waltl (1805–1888)
 X.L. (also X.-L. or X.) Wang – Xiaolin Wang
 Y.Q. (also Y.-Q. or Y.) Wang – Yuanqing Wang
 Watabe – Mahito Watabe
 Waterhouse – George Robert Waterhouse (1801–1888)
 Watson – James D. Watson
 Weber – Hermann Weber (1899–1956)
 Wegrzynowicz – Piotr Węgrzynowicz
 Weigold – Hugo Weigold (1886–1973)
 Weishampel – David B. Weishampel (f. 1952)
 Welles – Samuel Paul Welles (1909–1997)
 Westwood – John Obadiah Westwood (1805–1893)
 Wetmore – Alexander Wetmore (1886–1978)
 Weyenbergh – Hendrik Weyenbergh Jr. (1842–1885)
 Wiedemann – Christian Wiedemann (1770–1840)
 Wied-Neuwied – Maximilian zu Wied-Neuwied (1782–1867)
 Wiegmann – Arend Friedrich August Wiegmann (1802–1841)
 Williams – James David Williams (f. 1941)
 Williamson – Thomas Edward Williamson
 Wilson – Alexander Wilson (1766–1813) ornitologi
 Wilson – Jeffrey A. Wilson paleontologi
 Wiman – Carl Wiman (1867–1944)
 Wingate – David B. Wingate (f. 1935)
 Winge – Herluf Winge (1857–1923)
 Wirjoatmodjo – Soetikno Wirjoatmodjo
 Wolf – Johann Wolf (1765–1824)
 Wolfe – Douglas Gerald Wolfe
 Wood – Charles Thorold Wood (1777–1852)
 Wood-Mason – James Wood-Mason (1846–1893)
 Woodhouse – Samuel Washington Woodhouse (1821–1904) 
 Woodward – Arthur Smith Woodward (1864–1944)
 Wroughton – R. C. Wroughton (1849–1921)

 X 

Xantus – John Xantus de Vesey (1825–1894)
Xu – Xing Xu

 Y 

 Yamaguchi, Yamaguti – Masao Yamaguchi
 Yamanoue – Yusuke Yamanoue
 Yang, Young – Yang Zhongjian (1897–1979)
 Yang – Yang Chi-kun
 Yarrell – William Yarrell (1784–1856)
 Yoseda – Kenzo Yoseda
 You – Hailu You
 Young – David Allan Young (1915–1991) Hemiptera særlig Cicadellidae

 Z 

 Zaddach – Ernst Gustav Zaddach (1817–1881)
 Zanno – Lindsay E. Zanno
 Zeledon – José Castulo Zeledón (1846–1923)
 Zeller – Philipp Christoph Zeller (1808–1883) 
 Zetterstedt – Johan Wilhelm Zetterstedt (1785–1874)
 B.K. (also B.-K. or B.) Zhang – Bao-kun Zhang
 F.C. (also F.-C. or F.) Zhang – Fucheng Zhang
 Zhao – Xijin Zhao 
 S. Zhou – Shiwu Zhou (f. 1940)
 Z.H. (also Z.-H. or Z.) Zhou – Zhonghe Zhou
 Zimmer – John Todd Zimmer (1889–1957)
 Zimmermann – Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743–1815)
 Zincken – Johann Leopold Theodor Friedrich Zincken (1770–1856)
 Zirngiebl – Lothar Zirngiebl (1902–1973)
 Zittel – Karl Alfred von Zittel (1839–1904)

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