Carter
The taxon authority Carter may refer to:
- Alick Layng Carter, paleontologist
- Adrian Carter (A.Carter), lichenologist
- Annetta Mary Carter (1907–1991; A.M.Carter), U.S. botanist
- Bradley Carter, paleontologist
- David J. Carter, U.S. entomologist (Lepidoptera)
- Dilford Campbell Carter (1930–), U.S. mammalogist (Chiroptera)
- Elizabeth S. Carter, geologist, palaeontologist
- Evin T. Carter, U.S. conservation biologist and evolutionary ecologist
- Henry F. Carter, entomologist
- H. Jacque Carter, ichthyologist
- Henry John Carter (1813–1895), British spongiologist, zoologist
- Herbert James Carter (1858–1940, H.J.Carter), English-born Australian entomologist and phycologist
- James Richard Carter (born 1953; R.Carter), botanist
- John L. Carter, U.S. invertebrate paleontologist
- Joseph G. Carter, U.S. paleontologist
- Nellie Carter (1895–1987; N.Carter), British phycologist
- Susan Carter Holmes(1933– ; S.Carter), botanist
- Thomas Donald Carter (1893–1972), U.S. zoologist
- Timothy F. Carter, herpetologist