Biological Species
Twinleaf, Jeffersonia diphylla
A subspecies of the Midland shooting star, Dodecatheon meadia jeffersoni
Giant Ground Sloth, Megalonyx jeffersonii
Jefferson Mammoth, Mammuthus jeffersonii (sometimes demoted to the sub-species, Mammuthus columbi jeffersoni).
An early mammal, Baioconodon jeffersoni
The earliest known squirrel, Douglassia jeffersoni
Traversodont (an early cynodont), Boreogomphodon jeffersoni
Jefferson salamander, Ambystoma jeffersonianum
Blue Ridge Seal salamander, Desmognathus jeffersoni
A subspecies of the American badger, Taxidea taxus jeffersoni
A crawfish, Orconectes jeffersoni
Two parastitic ‘worms’, Rhipodocotyle jeffersoni and Pararhipidocotyle jeffersoni
Jefferson’s short-nosed scorpion fly, Brachypanorpa jeffersoni (endangered)
A jumping spider, Dendryphantes jeffersoni
A bryozoan (coral-like creature), Floridinella jeffersoni
A jellyfish relative, Dicodonium jeffersoni
A fungus, Triphragmiopsis jeffersoniae
Part of this list was reprinted, with permission, from A Passion for Nature: Thomas Jefferson and Natural History by Keith Thomson
