Species Named For Him
- Rare Hawaiian Goby Fish Sicydium stimpsoni Gill, 1860
- Eel Bathycongrus stimpsoni Fowler, 1934
- Sun Starfish Solaster stimpsoni
- Stimpson coastal shrimp Heptacarpus stimpsoni
- Fossil - small aquatic arthropod Acanthotelson stimpsoni Meek & Worthen
- Striped sunstar Solaster stimpsoni
- Clam Mercenaria stimpsoni
- Yellow Cone Conus stimpsoni Dall, 1902
- Eyespot Rock Shrimp Sicyonia stimpsoni Bouvier, 1905
- Nudibranch mollusc Coryphella stimpsoni (Verrill 1879)
- Gastropod Pteropurpura stimpsoni (A. Adams, 1863)
- Gastropod Turritellopsis stimpsoni (Dall, 1919)
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