Tom Iredale (24 March 1880 – 12 April 1972)[2] was an English-born ornithologist and malacologist who had a long association with Australia, where he lived for most of his life.

[2] He was apprenticed to a pharmacist from 1899 to 1901, and used to go bird watching and egg collecting in the Lake District with fellow chemist William Carruthers Lawrie.

[citation needed] According to a letter to Will Lawrie dated 25 January 1902, he arrived in Wellington, New Zealand in December 1901, and travelled at once on to Lyttelton and Christchurch.

Whilst working in London he lived with Jane Davies, a concert singer, whom he met at a Rothschild's soiree in 1910.

[3] Iredale continued his work in natural history under the patronage of wealthy naturalists such as Charles Rothschild, for whom he travelled to Hungary to collect fleas from birds.

Iredale returned to Australia in 1923 and was elected a member of the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union (RAOU) in the same year.

Iredale was originally appointed to assist Joyce Allan, the temporary head of the Conchology department.

This list, produced as tribute to the still active author, brought the total number of names to over two and a half thousand, and noted his other publications and collaborators.