Jan Versluys

Jan Versluys (1 September 1873 in Groningen – 22 January 1939 in Vienna) was a Dutch zoologist.

He studied biology at the University of Amsterdam, and afterwards participated on a scientific voyage to the Caribbean aboard the vessel Chazalie.

In 1898 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Giessen, then in 1899/1900 served as an assistant to Max Carl Wilhelm Weber on the Siboga Expedition to the Netherlands East Indies.

As a result of the mission, he published a monograph on Gorgonians, titled "Die Gorgoniden der Siboga-Expedition".

[1] Versluys is known to have corresponded with, and had visited American paleontologist Barnum Brown in 1904.