Vieillot is commemorated in the binomials of a number of birds, such as Lybius vieilloti (Vieillot's Barbet) and Saurothera vieilloti (the Puerto Rican Lizard-Cuckoo).
Barbet Schroeder | Great Barbet | Vieillot's Barbet | Matt Barbet | Malabar Barbet | Grey-throated Barbet | Double-toothed Barbet |
Other birds described by Vieillot in the same issue include the Black-chested Buzzard-eagle, the Mindanao Wrinkled Hornbill, the Speckled Teal the Ringed Teal and the South American Snipe
It is named after the Portuguese naturalist and explorer José Alberto de Oliveira Anchieta.
It is Zambia's only endemic bird and appears on the new 1 kwacha coin.
Slender Sheartail Doricha enicura (Vieillot, 1818), Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras.
In the same year, he discovered Bonelli's Eagle (Hieraaetus fasciatus) that was likewise named by Vieillot in 1822.
Louis Jean Pierre Vieillot (10 May 1748, Yvetot – 1831, Rouen) was a French ornithologist.
Pinicola Vieillot, 1808 (Aves, Fringillidae) makes the name Pinicola Brébisson, 1818 a junior homonym and therefore unavailable for a genus of Xyelidae (Insecta, Hymenoptera).