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Anatoli Bogdanov

Anatoli Petrovich Bogdanov (1834–1896), Russian zoologist and anthropologist

Anna Morgan

Ann Haven Morgan (born "Anna" 1882–1966), American zoologist and ecologist

Bartsch

Paul Bartsch (1871–1960), German-American biologist, zoologist and malacologist

Böhm's Bee-eater

The name of this bird commemorates the German zoologist Richard Böhm.

Bötticher

Hans von Boetticher (1886–1958), German zoologist who worked on ornithology and entomology

Brimley's chorus frog

Brimley's chorus frog (Pseudacris brimleyi) is a species of frog in the Hylidae family, endemic to the United States, and is named for North Carolina zoologist C.S. Brimley.

Cabestana

Cabestana waterhousei (A. Adams & Angas, 1864) : synonym of Cabestana tabulata (Menke, 1843)

Calabresi

Enrica Calabresi (1891–1944), Italian zoologist, herpetologist, and entomologist

Coral catshark

The coral catshark was first described by an anonymous author, usually referred to English zoologist Edward Turner Bennett, in the 1830 Memoir of the Life and Public Services of Sir Thomas Stamford Raffles.

Des Morris

:For the British ethnologist and zoologist, see Desmond Morris

Diesing

Karl Moriz Diesing (1800-1867), an Austrian naturalist and zoologist

Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest

Eugène Anselme Sébastien Léon Desmarest (1816–1889) was a French zoologist and entomologist son of Anselme Gaëtan Desmarest (1734–1838).

Expedition Linné

Expedition Linné is a 2007 documentary film made for the 300th anniversary of the birth of Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist Carl Linnaeus.

Feliks Paweł Jarocki

Feliks Paweł Jarocki (Pacanów, 14 January 1790 - 25 March 1865, Warsaw) was a Polish zoologist and entomologist.

Fermín Zanón Cervera

Fermín Zanón Cervera (1875–1944) was a Spanish zoologist, born in Godelleta, Valencia.

Fritz Schaudinn

In 1898 with zoologist Fritz Römer (1866-1909), he participated on a scientific trip to Svalbard.

Gloger's rule

It was named after the zoologist Constantin Wilhelm Lambert Gloger, who first remarked upon this phenomenon in 1833 in a review of covariation of climate and avian plumage color.

Goeldi

Émil Goeldi (1859–1917), Swiss-Brazilian naturalist and zoologist, father of Oswaldo Goeldi

Goeze

Johann August Ephraim Goeze, (1731–1793), a German zoologist from Aschersleben.

Guam Rail

Zoologist Bob Beck, a Guam Department of Agriculture Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources wildlife supervisor, is credited with leading the efforts to capture the remaining wild Guam rails, Micronesian Kingfishers and other native birds to save them from extinction.

Gustav Tornier

Gustav Tornier (Dombrowken (today Dąbrowa Chełmińska, Poland), 9 May 1858 - Berlin, 25 April 1938) was a German zoologist and herpetologist.

Heinrich Balss

Heinrich Balss (3 June 1886 – 17 September 1957) was a German zoologist, specialising in Crustacea, especially decapods.

Historia naturalis palmarum

Historia naturalis palmarum was based on Martius' travels in Brazil and Peru with zoologist Johann Baptist von Spix from 9 December 1817 to 1820.

Howard Parshley

Howard Madison Parshley (1884, Hallowell, Maine – 19 May 1953) was an American zoologist, a specialist on the Heteroptera who also wrote more broadly on genetics, reproduction and human sexuality.

Iain Hamilton

Iain Douglas-Hamilton (born 1942), zoologist known for his study of elephants

Kate Charlton-Robb

Kate Charlton-Robb, born in Mornington Peninsula is an Australian zoologist, molecular genetist, researcher of Monash University, who, along with colleagues, declared in 2011 a new species of Tursiops genera, and formally named Tursiops australis.

Kuhli loach

The kuhli loach was originally described as Cobitis kuhlii by Achille Valenciennes in 1846 to commemorate Heinrich Kuhl's work as a naturalist and zoologist.

Lewis County, New York

Clinton Hart Merriam (December 5, 1855 – March 19, 1942) was an American zoologist, ornithologist, entomologist, ethnographer, and naturalist.

Louis Michel Français Doyère

Louis Michel Français Doyère (born 28 January 1811 in Saint-Michel-des-Essartiers; died 1863 in Corsica) was a French zoologist and agronomist.

Ludwik Sitowski

Ludwik Sitowski (born 1880 - 1947) was a Polish zoologist.

Night shark

The first scientific description of the night shark was published by Cuban zoologist Felipe Poey in 1868, as part of a series of papers entitled Repertorio fisico-natural de la isla de Cuba.

Ormia ochracea

The female is attracted by the song of the male cricket and deposits larvae on or around him, as was discovered in 1975 by the zoologist William H. Cade.

Otto Antonius

Otto Antonius (21 May 1885 in Vienna - 9 April 1945 in Vienna) was director of the Tiergarten Schönbrunn in Vienna, zoologist, palaeontologist and co-founder of the modern zoological biology.

Paul Möhring

Paul Heinrich Gerhard Möhring (also Paul Mohr; 21 July 1710, Jever – 28 October 1792) was a German physician, botanist and zoologist.

Peder Severin Krøyer

He was raised by Gjesdal's sister, Bertha Cecilie (born 1817) and brother-in-law, the Danish zoologist Henrik Nikolai Krøyer, after his mother was judged unfit to care for him.

Pictet

François Jules Pictet de la Rive (1809 - 1872), Swiss zoologist and palaeontologist

Radiospongilla sceptroides

It was described as Spongilla sceptroides by Scottish-born Australian zoologist William A. Haswell in 1883, who discovered it growing on submerged wood in a pond in the vicinity of Brisbane.

Rainer Schulin

Rainer Schulin (* July 22, 1952) is a German zoologist, forest scientist and professor of soil protection at the ETH Zurich.

Richard C. Banks

(born April 19, 1931) is an American author, ornithologist and Emeritus Research Zoologist on staff with the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center run by the U.S. Geological Survey and stationed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC.

Robert Higgins

Robert P. Higgins (born 1932), systematic invertebrate zoologist and ecologist

Sang Nila Utama

Another view is given by a zoologist John Harrison who speculated that the animal was either the Golden Cat, based on his study of clues from the Malay Annals.

Schrenk

Leopold von Schrenck (1826–1894), Russian-born Baltic-German zoologist, geographer, and ethnographer; brother of Alexander von Schrenk

Science Week Ireland

The guest lecturers include Professor Aubrey Manning, a distinguished zoologist and broadcaster, Gerry Johnston, director of Special Effects Ireland, Dr. Cynthia Breazeal, Associate Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stephen Attenborough of Virgin Galactic and Patrick Collison, Irish Young Scientist of the Year winner 2005.

Swinnerton Ledge

In association with the names of geologists grouped in this area, named by the United Kingdom Antarctic Place-Names Committee (UK-APC) after Henry H. Swinnerton (1876–1966), British zoologist and paleontologist, Professor of Geology, University college of Nottingham (later Nottingham University), 1912–46; President, Geological Society, 1938-40.

Trimeresurus purpureomaculatus andersoni

The specific name, andersonii, is in honor of Scottish zoologist John Anderson, who worked in India 1864-1886 and was the first curator of the Indian Museum in Calcutta (now called Kolkata).

Wickler

Wolfgang Wickler, German zoologist, behavioral researcher and publicist

William Mackintosh

William M'Intosh (also spelt McIntosh; 1838-1931), Scottish physician and marine zoologist

Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club

In 1856, the botanist George Bentham (who lived at Pontrilas) was an honorary member, as were the geologists the Rev. Peter Bellinger Brodie, William Henry Fitton, Leonard Horner, Sir Charles Lyell, Sir Roderick Murchison, Prof. John Phillips, and the Rev. Prof. Adam Sedgwick, the botanist John Lindley, the naturalist Sir William Jardine, and the zoologist Prof. Robert E. Grant.

Xenophrys lekaguli

The specific name commemorates Thai zoologist and conservationist Dr Boonsong Lekagul.


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