The specific name, "hamiltonii", is in honor of Scottish botanist and ichthyologist Francis Hamilton. Myers worked closely with fellow ichthyologist and Stanford Natural History Museum curator, Margaret Hamilton Storey. Dutch ichthyologist Pieter Bleeker described the sicklefin weasel shark in 1852. The specific epithet honors ichthyologist Herbert R. Axelrod. Also killed was Rafael Antonio Curra, a Venezuelan ichthyologist and university professor. The submersible's pilot, Archibald "Jock" Menzies, and ichthyologist Robert Meek survived. It was described in 2018 and named in honor of ichthyologist Eugenie Clark. It is absent from Borneo, which ichthyologist Tyson R. Roberts considers "surprising". They visited aquariums, went diving in Hawaii and received in-house lectures from an ichthyologist. He was also honoured by the ichthyologist Decio Vinciguerra, who named a catfish after him. American ichthyologist Leonard Peter Schultz described the cardinal tetra in 1956 as "Cheirodon axelrodi". Carl reunites with his friend and former student, ichthyologist Dr. David Reed. Herre, an American ichthyologist working in the Philippines. The generic name honours the American ichthyologist David Starr Jordan (1851-1931). Tyson Royal Roberts is an American ichthyologist.