Outline of zoology

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The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to zoology:

Zoology – the biological discipline which involves the study of animals.

Essence of zoology

• Animal
• Fauna

Branches of zoology

History of zoology

Animals (by common name)

Some well-known types of animals, listed by their common names:

General zoology concepts

• taxonomy
• the clade
• monophyly
• polyphyly
• speciation
• isolating mechanisms
• concept of species
  • the phenetic species concept
  • the biological species concept
  • the recognition species concept
  • the ecological species concept
  • the pluralistic species concept

Notable zoologists

In alphabetical order by surname:

• Louis Agassiz (malacology, ichthyology)
• Aristotle
• Pierre Joseph Bonnaterre
• Archie Carr (Herpetology, esp. sea turtles)
• Archie Carr III, (wild mammals)
• Eugenie Clark (Ichthyology)
• Jeff Corwin (most animals)
• Georges Cuvier (founder of comparative morphology)
• Charles Darwin (formulated modern theory of evolution)
• Richard Dawkins (ethology)
• Dian Fossey (primatology)
• Birutė Galdikas (primatology)
• Jane Goodall (primatology)
• Arthur Davis Hasler (limnology, ichthyology, salmon homing)
• Victor Hensen (planktology)
• Libbie Hyman (invertebrate zoology)
• Steve Irwin (herpetology)
• William Kirby (father of entomology)
• Hans-Wilhelm Koepcke (ornithology, herpetology)
• Carolus Linnaeus (father of systematics)
• Konrad Lorenz (ethology)
• David W. Macdonald (wild mammals)
• Ernst Mayr (evolutionary biologist)
• Desmond Morris (ethology)
• Ron Nowak (wild mammals)
• Richard Owen (proposed archetypes for major groups of organisms)
• Roger Tory Peterson (ornithology)
• William Emerson Ritter (marine biology)
• Thomas Say (entomology)
• Jakob von Uexküll (animal behavior, invertebrate zoology)
• Ernest P. Walker (wild mammals)
• E. O. Wilson (entomology, founder of sociobiology)
• more...

Zoology lists

• Lists of animals
• Ant genera (alphabetical)
  • British ant species (common names)
  • Non-endemic ant species introduced to Great Britain and Ireland
  • Myrmecology topics
• Amblypygid genera
• Birds
  • Santa Cruz County, California
  • Sibley-Monroe Checklist:
    • 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 • 13 • 14 • 15 • 16 • 17 • 18
• Domesticated animals
• Cat breeds
• Dog breeds
• Freshwater aquarium fish species
• Horse breeds
• Marine reptiles
• Externally visible animal parts
• Endangered species in the U.S.
• Category:Lists of individual animals

Further reading

• Tree of Life Project
• Animal Diversity Web - University of Michigan's database of animals, showing taxonomic classification, images, and other information.
• ARKive - multimedia database of worldwide endangered/protected species and common species of UK.
• Scientific American Magazine (December 2005 Issue) - Getting a Leg Up on Land About the evolution of four-limbed animals from fish.

See also

• List of Russian zoologists

External links

• A Study Guide to Invertebrate Zoology ~ at Wikibooks
• An online encyclopedia of zoology
• Online Dictionary of Invertebrate Zoology
• An online dissection pictures of animals
• Dictionary.com's discussion of pronunciation