Thomas Rymer Jones, FRS (1810 – 10 October 1880) was an English surgeon, academic and zoologist.
Jones was the son of a captain in the Royal Navy and he studied at Guy's Hospital in Paris.
In 1838, at the meeting of the British Association at Newcastle, he was the sole opponent of Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg, who maintained the polygastric nature of certain infusoria.
Jones's General Outline of the Animal Kingdom, and Manual of Comparative Anatomy, London, was published with woodcuts, 1838–41.
Jones wrote papers in scientific journals and: He also edited William Kirby's Bridgewater Treatise, for Henry Bohn's series, in 1852; and a translation of the section Birds in Brehms Tierleben, issued as Cassell's Book of Birds[1] in 1869–73.