Taxa Named in Honor
Taxa named in honor of Joseph Thomson include:
- African gazelle, Eudorcas thomsonii, known as Thomson's gazelle
- freshwater snail Limnotrochus thomsoni E. A. Smith, 1880
- land snail Achatina thomsoni E. A. Smith, 1880 is a synonym of Achatina spekei Dohrn
- freshwater bivalve Unio thomsoni E. A. Smith, 1880 is a synonym of Grandideriera burtoni (Woodward, 1859)
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