Edward Turner Bennett (6 January 1797 – 21 August 1836) was an English zoologist and writer.
[1] Bennett was born at Hackney and practiced as a surgeon, but his chief pursuit was always zoology.
This in turn became the starting point of the Zoological Society of London, of which Bennett was Secretary from 1831 to 1836.
He also wrote, in conjunction with George Tradescant Lay, the section on Fishes in the Zoology of Beechey's Voyage (1839).
In 1835, he described a new species of African crocodile, Mecistops leptorhynchus, the validity of which was confirmed in 2018.