Aquestes abreviatures són utilitzades en taxonomia animal que és la part de la zoologia que s'ocupa de la classificació i la denominació de les espècies. Figuren a continuació de la nomenclatura binomial i fan referència a la persona a la qual s'atribueix la primera descripció de l'espècie. A diferència de la botànica, en zoologia una mateixa abreviació pot referir-se a més d'un zoòleg.
A A. Milne-Edwards Alphonse Milne-Edwards (1835–1900) A. Nichols - Albert Russell Nichols (1859-1933) A. P. Jenkins - Aaron Peter Jenkins A. Smith – Andrew Smith (1797–1872) A. Walker - Alick Donald Walker (1925–1999) A.A. Gould - Augustus Addison Gould (1805–1866)
Abe - Tokiharu Abe (1911–1996) Able - Kenneth W. Able Abbott - Charles Conrad Abbott (1843–1919) Acerbi - Giuseppe Acerbi (1773–1846) Acero - Arturo Acero Pizarro (1954) A. Adams - Arthur Adams (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 Albert - James S. Albert Albertis - Luigi Maria d'Albertis (1841–1901) Alcock - Alfred William Alcock (1859–1933) Alencar - José Eduardo de Alencar Moreira (1953) Alexander - Boyd Alexander (1873–1910) Alfaro - Anastasio Alfaro (1865–1951) Alifanov - Vladímir Alifànov Allain - Ronan Allain (1974) Allen – Joel Asaph Allen (1838–1921) G. M. Allen - Glover Morrill Allen (1879–1942) Allioni - Carlo Allioni (1728–1804) Almeida - Lurdes Foresti de Almeida Toledo Amadon - Dean Amadon (1912–2003) Ameghino – Florentino Ameghino (1854–1911) K. Andersen - Knud Andersen (1867–1918) Anderson - John Anderson (1833–1900) - Mamífers asiàtics i rèptils André - Jacques Ernest Edmond André (1844–1891) Andrews – Charles William Andrews (1866–1924) Andriàixev - Anatoli Petróvitx Andriàixev (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 - C. Aubé Audebert - Jean-Baptiste Audebert (1759–1800) Audouin – Jean Victoire Audoin (1797–1841) Audubon - John James Audubon (1785–1851) Ausserer - Anton Ausserer (1907–1976) Ayling - Tony Ayling (1947) Ayres - William Orville Ayres (1805–1887)
B B.K. Zhang - Bao-kun Zhang
Bachman - John Bachman (1790–1874) 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 (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 Balss - Heinrich Balss (1886–1957) Balushkin - Arkadii Vladimirovich Balushkin Bandyopadhyay - Saswati Bandyopadhyay Bangs - Outram Bangs (1863–1932) Banks - Richard C. Banks Bannerman - David Armitage Bannerman (1886–1979) Bànnikov - Aleksandr Fiódorovitx Bànnikov Bansok - Ros Bansok Barbour - Thomas Barbour (1884–1946) Barker - Michael J. Barker Barrett - Paul M. Barrett Barrows - Walter Bradford Barrows (1855–1923) Bartlett - Edward Bartlett (1836–1908) A. D. Bartlett - Abraham Dee Bartlett (1812–1897) Barton - Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815) Bartsch – Paul Bartsch (1871-1960) 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) Beadnell – Hugh John Llewellyn Beadnell (1874–1944) Bean - Tarleton Hoffman Bean (1846–1916) Beavan - Reginald C. Beavan (1841–1870) Bechstein - Johann Matthäus Bechstein (1757–1822) Beddome - Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911) Behr - Hans Herman 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) 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 (1939) Beresford - Pamela Beresford Berg - Lev Berg (1876-1950) Berla - Herbert Franzioni Berla (1912–1985) Berland - Lucien Berland (1888–1962) Berlepsch - Hans von Berlepsch (1850–1915) Berlioz - Jacques Berlioz (1891–1975) Berthold - Arnold Adolph Berthold (1803-1861) Bertkau - Philip Bertkau (1849-1894) 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) Bingham - Charles Thomas Bingham (1848-1908) Biswas - Biswamoy Biswas (1923–1994) Blache - Jacques Blache (1922–1994) Black - Davidson Black (1884–1934) 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 Elieser 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) Bogert - Charles Mitchill Bogert (1908–1992) Boheman - Karl Henrik Boheman (1796–1868) F. Boie - Friedrich Boie (1789-1870) H. Boie - Heinrich Boie (1794–1827) Boisduval - Jean Baptiste Boisduval (1799–1879) Boitard – Pierre Boitard (1789–1859) Bolle - Carl Bolle (1821–1909) Bolotsky - Iuri L. Bolotski Bonaparte - Charles Lucien Jules Laurent Bonaparte (1794–1827) Bonaparte – Charles Lucien Bonaparte (1803–1857) Bonelli - Franco Andrea Bonelli (1784–1830) Bonhote - J. Lewis Bonhote (1875–1922) Bonnaterre - Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre (1747–1804) Borkh. - Moritz Balthasar Borkhausen (1760–1806) Borodin - Nikolai Andreyevich Borodin (1861)
Borojevic – Radovan Borojevic (1940) Borsuk - Maria Magdalena Borsuk-Białynicka Bory - Jean Baptiste Bory de Saint-Vincent Bosc - Louis Augustin Guillaume Bosc (1759–1828) Boscà - Eduard Boscà i Casanovas (1843-1924) Boucard - Adolphe Boucard (1839-1905) Boulenger - George Albert Boulenger (1858–1937) Bourcier - Jules Bourcier (1797–1873) Boury-Esnault – Nicole Boury-Esnault (1942) 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) Bremi-Wolf - Johann Jacob Bremi-Wolf (1791–1857) Brett - Michael K. Brett-Surman (1950) Brevoort - James Carson Brevoort (1818–1887) Brewster - William Brewster (ornithologist) (1851–1919) Brischke - Carl Gustav Alexander Brischke (1814–1897) Brisson – Mathurin Jacques Brisson (1723–1806) Brittinger - Christian Casimir Brittinger (1795–1869) Brongniart - Alexandre Brongniart (1770–1847) C. Brongniart - Charles Jules Edme Brongniart (1859–1899) Broili – Ferdinand Broili (1874–1946) 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 (1866–1851) Brown – Barnum Brown (1873–1963) Bruch - Carl Friedrich Bruch (1789–1851) Bruguière - Jean Guillaume Bruguière (1749–1798) Brullé - Gaspard Auguste Brullé (1809–1873) Brünnich – Morten Thrane Brünnich (1737–1827) 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 (1828) Burchell - William John Burchell (1782–1863) Burge - Donald L. Burge
Burmeister – Karl Hermann Konrad Burmeister (1807–1892) Burnett – Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1800–1835) Burns - John McLauren Burns Butler - Arthur Gardiner Butler (1844–1925) Buttikofer - Johann Büttikofer (1850–1929) Buturlin - Sergei Aleksandrovich Buturlin (1872–1938) Buttikofer - Johann Büttikofer (1850–1929)
C C. Felder - Cajetan Freiherr von Felder (1814–1894) C. H. Townsend - Charles Haskins Townsend (1859–1944) C. L. Koch - Carl Ludwig Koch (1778–1857) C. Martin - Claro Martin C.Grant - Chapman Grant (1887–1983) herpetología
A. Cabrera - Angel Cabrera (1879–1960) Cabanis - Jean Louis Cabanis (1816–1906) Caldwell - David Keller Caldwell (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) Campbell - Jonathan A. Campbell Campos - Diógenes de Almeida Campos Canestrini – Giovanni Canestrini (1835–1900) Cantor - Theodore Edward Cantor (1809–1860) Carlson - Bruce A. Carlson Carpenter - Kenneth Carpenter (1949) Carter – Herbert James Carter (1858–1940) Carvalho - Ismar de Souza Carvalho Cassin - John Cassin (1813–1869) Castellanos - Zulma Ageitos de Castellanos (1922-2010) Castelnau - Francis de Laporte de Castelnau (1810–1880) Cervigón - Fernando Cervigón (1930) Chabanaud - Paul Chabanaud (1876–1959) Chamberlin - Ralph Vary Chamberlin (1879–1967) Chapin - James Chapin (1889–1964) Chapman - Ralph E. Chapman Charig - Alan Jack Charig (1927–1997) Charpentier - Toussaint de Charpentier (1779–1847) Chasen - Frederick Nutter Chasen (1896–1942) Chatterjee - Sankar Chatterjee (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 (1922) 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 Colbert – Edwin Harris Colbert (1905–2001) Collett - Robert Collett (1842-1913) Colston - Peter Colston Compagno - Leonard J. V. Compagno Conci - Cesare Conci (born 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 (conchologist) (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) W.J.E.M. Costa - Wilson José Eduardo Moreira da Costa Coues - Elliott Coues (1842-1899) Cramer - Pieter Cramer (1721–c. 1779) Cretzschmar - Philipp Jakob Cretzschmar (1786–1845) Crusafont – Miquel Crusafont i Pairó (1910–1983) Crewe - Henry Harpur Crewe (1828–1883) Crotch - George Robert Crotch (1842-1874) Crowson - Roy Crowson (1914–1999) Currie - Philip J. Currie (1949) Curry Rogers - Kristina Curry Rogers (1974) Curtis - John Curtis (entomologist) (1791–1862) F. Cuvier – Frédéric Cuvier (1773–1838) Cuvier – Georges Cuvier (1769–1832)