herpetologist

From Ancient Greek ἑρπετόν (herpetón, “creeping animal, reptile, especially a snake”) + -ologist.

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Already, Griffith has observed several amphibian extinctions. Pretty much every herpetologist working out in the field has watched several.

2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 1, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

One who studies reptiles and amphibians; a reptile and amphibian specialist.

herpetólogu

one who studies reptiles, a reptile specialist


zoologist

/zəʊˈɒləd͡ʒɪst/


ornithologist

Mr. Worple in his spare time was what is known as an ornithologist. He had written a book called American Birds, and was writing another, to be called More American Birds.

Many of these classic methods are still used, with some modern improvements. For example, with the aid of special microphones and automated sound detection software, ornithologists recently reported […] that pine siskins (Spinus pinus) undergo an irregular, nomadic type of nocturnal migration.

2013 January 1, Paul Bartel, Ashli Moore, “Avian Migration: The Ultimate Red-Eye Flight”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 2016-03-05, pages 47–48:

A person who studies or practices ornithology.


entomologist

The noted entomologist Charles W. Woodworth suggested the use of Drosophila melanogaster for genetic studies.

DENR entomologists recall that beetle infestation of the agohos is similar to another which killed thousands of pine trees in Benguet in 1981.

1989, The Philippine Lumberman, volume 35:

Colorado stood at the brink of an outbreak that another Forest Service entomologist would dub “Beetlegeddon.”

2012, Michael Lanza, Before They're Gone: A Family's Year-Long Quest to Explore America's Most Endangered National Parks, page 104:


acarologist

Claparẻde draws and describes a lance-shaped hair on the tarsus of the first leg of the male which other acarologists have not seen.

This would be an interesting field of study offering immense scope to acarologists in the developing world.

1989, G. P. ChannaBasavanna, Neelu Nangia, “14.1 Acarology in Developing Countries - Glimpses and Prospects”, in G. P. ChannaBasavanna, C. A. Viraktamath, editors, Progress in Acarology, Volume 2, E. J. Brill, page 469:

2011, Andrew Nikiforuk, Empire of the Beetle, David Suzuki Foundation, Greystone Books, page 41,
One acarologist wrote several years ago that mites dwell "in a strange and beautiful world where a meter amounts to a mile and yesterday was years ago."

A specialist in acarology - the study of ticks and mites.


ichthyologist

An expert in ichthyology: one who studies fishes. [from 18th c.]


cryptozoologist

From crypto- + zoologist or cryptozoology + -ist.

(cryptozoology) One who studies cryptozoology.


osteologist

The skeleton is an adult male who was buried with his hands bound together under his pelvis. It is suggested this unusual position means he could have been murdered or executed. [...] We hope our osteologists will be able to shed more light on this potentially gruesome death.

2020 July 29, “Neolithic skeleton among finds unearthed at HS2 site”, in Rail, page 17:

A scientist or physician whose speciality is osteology.


lepidopterist

Someone who studies lepidoptery; someone who studies butterflies and moths.


neurotoxicologist

A toxicologist who specializes in neurotoxicology.


behaviorist

One who studies behavior of humans or animals.


primatologist

primatolog

scientist whose speciality is primatology


coleopterist

Recently, another coleopterist collected Brachys barberi—more typically a southwestern species—on Quercus harvardii (shinnery oak) at this spot.

2022 May 14, Ted C. MacRae, Cupressaceae:


neuroscientist

Most neuroscientists would be very sceptical of claims that consciousness of any sort could exist independently of a living brain. There is a growing consensus that consciousness, like life, weather, and cricket, is just another part of the natural world – albeit one that is reluctant to divulge its secrets. But it is unwise to dismiss reports of near-death experiences, which are usually reported after traumatic life-threatening events such as heart attacks.

2013 August 23, Anil Seth, “Near-death experience”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 11, page 20:

A scientist whose speciality is neuroscience.

neurocientífic

scientist whose specialty is neuroscience


neurochemist

A researcher or other professional in the field of neurochemistry


cynologist

Buffon's table is here reproduced as it was a sincere attempt towards laying a foundation upon which cynologists might work out the origin of breeds and their varieties and the analysis of dog groups.

1948, Clifford L.B. Hubbard, Dogs In Britain, MacMillan & Co:


zooarcheologist

Alternative spelling of zooarchaeologist


oologist

a person who studies or specializes in oology


zoarchaeologist

/ˌzəʊɑːkiːˈɒlədʒɪst/

From zo- + archaeologist, omitting the superfluous -o- (unnecessary because archaeologist begins with a vowel).

Full membership finally grew to include Vaughn M. Bryant, Jr., Thomas R. Hester, Marvin Rowe (professor of chemistry, Texas A&M University), Harry J. Shafer, D. Gentry Steele (professor of anthropology, physical anthropologist, and zoarchaeologist Texas A&M University), and Peter W. Van Arsdale.

1999, O. W. Hampton, Culture of Stone: Sacred and Profane Uses of Stone Among the Dani, page xxiv:

(rare) Alternative spelling of zooarchaeologist


paleozoologist

Any zoologist whose speciality is paleozoology


archeozoologist

Alternative spelling of archaeozoologist


coleopterologist

A person who studies or practices coleopterology (the study of beetles).


zoopsychologist

One who studies or practices zoopsychology.


hymenopterologist

Many other cases could be cited, but these, I think, will do to show the difficulty of the study of the Pompilidae, and how deficient our generic definitions must be when our most able hymenopterologists are so easily led astray by superficial resemblances.

1900, The Canadian Entomologist, volume 32, page 153:


collembologist

The capture is apparently lower in the tropics, at least from what I have experienced as a collembologist.

2013, Eduardo H Rapoport, Areography: Geographical Strategies of Species, page 179:

One who studies springtails (hexapods of the subclass Collembola).


phthirapterist

An entomologist who studies the Phthiraptera, or lice.


tardigradologist

Accordingly, requests for specimens were sent to all European tardigradologists.

1977, The Wasmann Journal of Biology - Volumes 35-36:

Unfortunately, extenuating circumstances kept the tardigradologists from meeting in 1983, ...

1987, Roberto Bertolani, Biology of Tardigrades, page 13:

The designation of 'amateur tardigradologist' does not, in any way, infer inferior quality work -- it should be remembered that the early microscopists and many of the great scientists of the past were amateurs by today's criteria.

1994, Ian M. Kinchin, The biology of tardigrades, →ISBN, page 139:

This is probably more an artefact of where marine tardigradologists have been working and collecting rather than any zoogeographic pattern.

2000, Records of the South Australian Museum - Volumes 33-35, page 84:

A biologist who specializes in studying tardigrades.


chiropterist

A zoologist who studies bats (Chiroptera).


hemipterist

An entomologist who studies hemipterans.


hymenopterist

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My collecting partner for this trip was long-time friend and hymenopterist Mike Arduser.

(entomology) An entomologist who studies hymenopterans.


staphylinidologist

An entomologist who studies staphylinid beetles.


paleornithologist

A paleontologist who studies fossil birds.


amphipodologist

A biologist who specialises in crustacea of the order Amphipoda


herper

(colloquial) A herpetologist, or reptile enthusiast.


ornithologer

So although Galen ſaith that it is harder, than that of the Partridg, Pigeon, or Henne, &c; yet where he ſpeakes of meats of good and bad juyce, he affirmeth the former, as alſo that it’s neither thin nor groſſe, and Savonarola preferreth it before the Buſtard or Thruſh, ſo Bapt Fier. Yet the Ornithologer and Volateranus deny it.

1661, Robert Lovell, Πανζωορυκτολογια. Sive Panzoologicomineralogia. Or a Compleat History of Animals and Minerals, […], Oxford, Oxon: […] Hen: Hall, for Jos: Godwin, page 134:

You see, he had killed hundreds and hundreds of them, and that ’s the way to find out about birds. That ’s the way people does that writes books about birds, and loves them so that they ’ll go hungry and tired and take any amount of trouble to find a new bird and kill it. Their name is ornithologers, and I could have been an ornithologer myself, because I always loved birds and creatures; […]

1893 December, Huck Finn [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, in Mary Mapes Dodge, editor, St. Nicholas: An Illustrated Magazine for Young Folks, volume XXI, number 2, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co.; London: T[homas] Fisher Unwin, chapter V, page 124, column 2:

Funeral services for Richard A. Herbert, 53, nationally-known ornithologer, will be held tomorrow at 2:30 p. m. in St. Anne’s Episcopal Church, Middletown, with a memorial service next Tuesday in Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, New York.

1960 April 12, “[Obituary] Richard A. Herbert”, in Journal-Every Evening, volume 28, number 87, Wilmington, Del., page thirty-five, column 6:

Ornithologers meet / FOND DU LAC — The Wisconsin Society for Ornithology will sponsor it s^([sic]) annual swan trip Sunday.

1980 April 12, Leisure & Home (The Post-Crescent), Appleton, Wis., page 11, column 2: