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	Colonel '''Richard Henry Beddome''' (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a British military officer and [[Natural history\|naturalist]] in [[India]], who became chief conservator of the [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department\|Madras Forest Department]]. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several remote and then-unexplored hill ranges in [[Sri Lanka]] and [[south India]], including those in the [[Eastern Ghats]] such as [[Yelandur]], [[Kollegal]], [[Shevaroy Hills]], [[Yelagiri]], [[Nallamala Hills]], [[Visakhapatnam]] hills, and the [[Western Ghats]] such as [[Nilgiri hills]], [[Anaimalai hills]], [[Agasthyamalai Hills]] and [[Kudremukh]]. He described many [[species]] of plants, [[amphibians]], and [[reptiles]] from southern India and Sri Lanka, and several species from this region described by others bear his name.		Colonel '''Richard Henry Beddome''' (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a British military officer and [[Natural history\|naturalist]] in [[India]], who became chief conservator of the [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department\|Madras Forest Department]]. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several remote and then-unexplored hill ranges in [[Sri Lanka]] and [[south India]], including those in the [[Eastern Ghats]] such as [[Yelandur]], [[Kollegal]], [[Shevaroy Hills]], [[Yelagiri]], [[Nallamala Hills]], [[Visakhapatnam]] hills, and the [[Western Ghats]] such as [[Nilgiri hills]], [[Anaimalai hills]], [[Agasthyamalai Hills]] and [[Kudremukh]]. He described many [[species]] of plants, [[amphibians]], and [[reptiles]] from southern India and Sri Lanka, and several species from this region described by others bear his name.
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	Colonel Beddome was essentially a botanist. In the study of the flora of [[South India]], he devoted the best days of his life. The result was the publication of a series of valuable works containing figures of many species. The drawings were executed with great accuracy by the native draughtsmen he had trained to draw.		Colonel Beddome was essentially a botanist. In the study of the flora of [[South India]], he devoted the best days of his life. The result was the publication of a series of valuable works containing figures of many species. The drawings were executed with great accuracy by the native draughtsmen he had trained to draw.

	His botanical publications included ''The Flora Sylvatica for Southern India'', 1869–73; ''Ferns of Southern India'', 1873; ''Ferns of British India'', 1876; ''Forester's Manual of Botany for Southern India'', 1869–74; ''Icones Plantarum Indies Orientalis'', 1874.<ref>{{cite journal\| author=Smith, Malcolm\|title=A facsimile of R. H. Beddome's articles on Indian reptiles 1862–1870\|journal= Archives of Natural History \|volume =1\| issue=10\|pages=273–334\| year=1940\|doi=10.3366/jsbnh.1940.1.10.273}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|title=The angiosperm taxa of R.H. Beddome with notes on the dates of publication of two serially published works.\|journal=Ann. Bot. Fennici\|volume=49\|pages=289–304\|author=Turner, Ian M.\|year=2012\|issue=5–6\|doi=10.5735/085.049.0601\|s2cid=85191878\|url=http://www.sekj.org/PDF/anb49-free/anb49-289i.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|volume=21\|issue=1\|pages=108–109\|year=2011\|author=Kumar, C. Sathish\|title=Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911): A Centennial Remembrance\|journal=Rheedea\|url=http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005640/http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf\|archive-date=26 April ~~2022~~}}</ref>		His botanical publications included ''The Flora Sylvatica for Southern India'', 1869–73; ''Ferns of Southern India'', 1873; ''Ferns of British India'', 1876; ''Forester's Manual of Botany for Southern India'', 1869–74; ''Icones Plantarum Indies Orientalis'', 1874.<ref>{{cite journal\| author=Smith, Malcolm\|title=A facsimile of R. H. Beddome's articles on Indian reptiles 1862–1870\|journal= Archives of Natural History \|volume =1\| issue=10\|pages=273–334\| year=1940\|doi=10.3366/jsbnh.1940.1.10.273}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|title=The angiosperm taxa of R.H. Beddome with notes on the dates of publication of two serially published works.\|journal=Ann. Bot. Fennici\|volume=49\|pages=289–304\|author=Turner, Ian M.\|year=2012\|issue=5–6\|doi=10.5735/085.049.0601\|s2cid=85191878\|url=http://www.sekj.org/PDF/anb49-free/anb49-289i.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|volume=21\|issue=1\|pages=108–109\|year=2011\|author=Kumar, C. Sathish\|title=Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911): A Centennial Remembrance\|journal=Rheedea\|url=http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005640/http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf\|archive-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>

	On [[Reptilia]] and [[Batrachia]], he wrote at least 15 papers, and described over 40 new species of reptiles<ref>"Beddome". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> and amphibians.<ref>"Beddome". Amphibian Species of the World 5.5, an Online Reference. research.amnh.org/vz/amphibia.</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|author=Ganesh SR\|year=2011\|title=Richard Henry Beddome and south India's herpetofauna - a tribute on his centennial death anniversary\|journal=Cobra \|volume=4\|issue=2\|pages=1–11\|url=https://www.academia.edu/2430910}}</ref>		On [[Reptilia]] and [[Batrachia]], he wrote at least 15 papers, and described over 40 new species of reptiles<ref>"Beddome". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> and amphibians.<ref>"Beddome". Amphibian Species of the World 5.5, an Online Reference. research.amnh.org/vz/amphibia.</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|author=Ganesh SR\|year=2011\|title=Richard Henry Beddome and south India's herpetofauna - a tribute on his centennial death anniversary\|journal=Cobra \|volume=4\|issue=2\|pages=1–11\|url=https://www.academia.edu/2430910}}</ref>

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	Colonel '''Richard Henry Beddome''' (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a British military officer and [[Natural history\|naturalist]] in [[India]], who became chief conservator of the [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department\|Madras Forest Department]]. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several remote and then-unexplored hill ranges in [[Sri Lanka]] and [[south India]], including those in the [[Eastern Ghats]] such as [[Yelandur]], [[Kollegal]], [[Shevaroy Hills]], [[Yelagiri]], [[Nallamala Hills]], [[Visakhapatnam]] hills, and the [[Western Ghats]] such as [[Nilgiri hills]], [[Anaimalai hills]], [[Agasthyamalai Hills]] and [[Kudremukh]]. He described many [[species]] of plants, [[amphibians]], and [[reptiles]] from southern India and Sri Lanka, and several species from this region described by others bear his name.		Colonel '''Richard Henry Beddome''' (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a British military officer and [[Natural history\|naturalist]] in [[India]], who became chief conservator of the [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department\|Madras Forest Department]]. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several remote and then-unexplored hill ranges in [[Sri Lanka]] and [[south India]], including those in the [[Eastern Ghats]] such as [[Yelandur]], [[Kollegal]], [[Shevaroy Hills]], [[Yelagiri]], [[Nallamala Hills]], [[Visakhapatnam]] hills, and the [[Western Ghats]] such as [[Nilgiri hills]], [[Anaimalai hills]], [[Agasthyamalai Hills]] and [[Kudremukh]]. He described many [[species]] of plants, [[amphibians]], and [[reptiles]] from southern India and Sri Lanka, and several species from this region described by others bear his name.
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	Colonel Beddome was essentially a botanist. In the study of the flora of [[South India]], he devoted the best days of his life. The result was the publication of a series of valuable works containing figures of many species. The drawings were executed with great accuracy by the native draughtsmen he had trained to draw.		Colonel Beddome was essentially a botanist. In the study of the flora of [[South India]], he devoted the best days of his life. The result was the publication of a series of valuable works containing figures of many species. The drawings were executed with great accuracy by the native draughtsmen he had trained to draw.

	His botanical publications included ''The Flora Sylvatica for Southern India'', 1869–73; ''Ferns of Southern India'', 1873; ''Ferns of British India'', 1876; ''Forester's Manual of Botany for Southern India'', 1869–74; ''Icones Plantarum Indies Orientalis'', 1874.<ref>{{cite journal\| author=Smith, Malcolm\|title=A facsimile of R. H. Beddome's articles on Indian reptiles 1862–1870\|journal= Archives of Natural History \|volume =1\| issue=10\|pages=273–334\| year=1940\|doi=10.3366/jsbnh.1940.1.10.273}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|title=The angiosperm taxa of R.H. Beddome with notes on the dates of publication of two serially published works.\|journal=Ann. Bot. Fennici\|volume=49\|pages=289–304\|author=Turner, Ian M.\|year=2012\|issue=5–6\|doi=10.5735/085.049.0601\|s2cid=85191878\|url=http://www.sekj.org/PDF/anb49-free/anb49-289i.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|volume=21\|issue=1\|pages=108–109\|year=2011\|author=Kumar, C. Sathish\|title=Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911): A Centennial Remembrance\|journal=Rheedea\|url=http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005640/http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf\|archive-date=26 April ~~2012~~}}</ref>		His botanical publications included ''The Flora Sylvatica for Southern India'', 1869–73; ''Ferns of Southern India'', 1873; ''Ferns of British India'', 1876; ''Forester's Manual of Botany for Southern India'', 1869–74; ''Icones Plantarum Indies Orientalis'', 1874.<ref>{{cite journal\| author=Smith, Malcolm\|title=A facsimile of R. H. Beddome's articles on Indian reptiles 1862–1870\|journal= Archives of Natural History \|volume =1\| issue=10\|pages=273–334\| year=1940\|doi=10.3366/jsbnh.1940.1.10.273}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|title=The angiosperm taxa of R.H. Beddome with notes on the dates of publication of two serially published works.\|journal=Ann. Bot. Fennici\|volume=49\|pages=289–304\|author=Turner, Ian M.\|year=2012\|issue=5–6\|doi=10.5735/085.049.0601\|s2cid=85191878\|url=http://www.sekj.org/PDF/anb49-free/anb49-289i.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|volume=21\|issue=1\|pages=108–109\|year=2011\|author=Kumar, C. Sathish\|title=Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911): A Centennial Remembrance\|journal=Rheedea\|url=http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf\|url-status=dead\|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005640/http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf\|archive-date=26 April 2022}}</ref>

	On [[Reptilia]] and [[Batrachia]], he wrote at least 15 papers, and described over 40 new species of reptiles<ref>"Beddome". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> and amphibians.<ref>"Beddome". Amphibian Species of the World 5.5, an Online Reference. research.amnh.org/vz/amphibia.</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|author=Ganesh SR\|year=2011\|title=Richard Henry Beddome and south India's herpetofauna - a tribute on his centennial death anniversary\|journal=Cobra \|volume=4\|issue=2\|pages=1–11\|url=https://www.academia.edu/2430910}}</ref>		On [[Reptilia]] and [[Batrachia]], he wrote at least 15 papers, and described over 40 new species of reptiles<ref>"Beddome". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> and amphibians.<ref>"Beddome". Amphibian Species of the World 5.5, an Online Reference. research.amnh.org/vz/amphibia.</ref><ref>{{cite journal\|author=Ganesh SR\|year=2011\|title=Richard Henry Beddome and south India's herpetofauna - a tribute on his centennial death anniversary\|journal=Cobra \|volume=4\|issue=2\|pages=1–11\|url=https://www.academia.edu/2430910}}</ref>

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	Colonel '''Richard Henry Beddome''' (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a ~~[[United Kingdom\|~~British]] military officer and [[Natural history\|naturalist]] in [[India]], who became chief conservator of the [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department\|Madras Forest Department]]. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several remote and then-unexplored hill ranges in [[Sri Lanka]] and [[south India]], including those in the [[Eastern Ghats]] such as [[Yelandur]], [[Kollegal]], [[Shevaroy Hills]], [[Yelagiri]], [[Nallamala Hills]], [[Visakhapatnam]] hills, and the [[Western Ghats]] such as [[Nilgiri hills]], [[Anaimalai hills]], [[Agasthyamalai Hills]] and [[Kudremukh]]. He described many [[species]] of plants, [[amphibians]], and [[reptiles]] from southern India and Sri Lanka, and several species from this region described by others bear his name.		Colonel '''Richard Henry Beddome''' (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a British military officer and [[Natural history\|naturalist]] in [[India]], who became chief conservator of the [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department\|Madras Forest Department]]. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several remote and then-unexplored hill ranges in [[Sri Lanka]] and [[south India]], including those in the [[Eastern Ghats]] such as [[Yelandur]], [[Kollegal]], [[Shevaroy Hills]], [[Yelagiri]], [[Nallamala Hills]], [[Visakhapatnam]] hills, and the [[Western Ghats]] such as [[Nilgiri hills]], [[Anaimalai hills]], [[Agasthyamalai Hills]] and [[Kudremukh]]. He described many [[species]] of plants, [[amphibians]], and [[reptiles]] from southern India and Sri Lanka, and several species from this region described by others bear his name.

	==Early life==		==Early life==

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Colonel '''Richard Henry Beddome''' (11 May 1830 – 23 February 1911) was a [[United Kingdom|British]] military officer and [[Natural history|naturalist]] in [[India]], who became chief conservator of the [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department|Madras Forest Department]]. In the mid-19th century, he extensively surveyed several remote and then-unexplored hill ranges in [[Sri Lanka]] and [[south India]], including those in the [[Eastern Ghats]] such as [[Yelandur]], [[Kollegal]], [[Shevaroy Hills]], [[Yelagiri]], [[Nallamala Hills]], [[Visakhapatnam]] hills, and the [[Western Ghats]] such as [[Nilgiri hills]], [[Anaimalai hills]], [[Agasthyamalai Hills]] and [[Kudremukh]]. He described many [[species]] of plants, [[amphibians]], and [[reptiles]] from southern India and Sri Lanka, and several species from this region described by others bear his name.

==Early life==
Richard was the eldest son of Richard Boswell Brandon Beddome, solicitor, of [[Clapham Common]], S.W. He was educated at [[Charterhouse School]] and trained for the legal profession, but preferred to join the East India Company at the age of 18 and joined the 42nd Madras Native Infantry as a cadet at Jabalpur.<ref name="Bedd"/>

==Military career==
He entered the Army, obtaining a direct cadetship in 1848 in the [[East India Company]]'s service, and sent to India was posted to the [[Madras Army#Madras Native Infantry|42nd Madras Native Infantry]]<ref>[[Malcolm Arthur Smith|Smith MA]] (1931). ''[[The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma]]. Reptilia and Amphibia. Vol. I.—Loricata, Testudines.'' London: Secretary of State for India in Council. (Taylor and Francis, printers). xxvii+ 185 pp. + Plates I-II. (Beddome, p. 9).</ref> He was with that regiment at [[Jabalpur]] in 1856, serving as [[quartermaster]] and [[interpreter]] of the regiment, and from there he went to [[Secunderabad]]. Soon after his arrival at [[Madras]], at the end of 1856, he was appointed to the [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department|Madras Forest Department]], and never rejoined his regiment.

These are dates of his commissions: ensign, 20 January 1848; lieutenant, 10 November 1853; captain, 18 February 1861; major, 20 January 1868; lieutenant colonel, 20 January 1874; colonel, 20 January 1879.<ref name="Bedd"/>

==Madras Forest Department==
In 1857, he was selected on account of his devotion to [[botany]] and [[natural history]] as an assistant to Dr. [[Hugh Francis Cleghorn|Hugh Cleghorn]], the first conservator of the newly formed [[Tamil Nadu Forest Department|Forest Department]] of the [[Madras Presidency]]. He succeeded Cleghorn in 1859 and remained Chief Conservator until 1882.<ref name="Bedd"/>

==Botanist, herpetologist, malacologist==
He became a member of the [[University of Madras]] in 1880. He made many floral studies in India and [[Ceylon]], including ''Trees of the Madras Presidency'' in 1863 and ''Handbook of the Ferns of British India, Ceylon and Malaya Peninsula'' in 1892. He also studied reptiles, amphibians, and [[mollusc]]s.

Colonel Beddome was essentially a botanist. In the study of the flora of [[South India]], he devoted the best days of his life. The result was the publication of a series of valuable works containing figures of many species. The drawings were executed with great accuracy by the native draughtsmen he had trained to draw.

His botanical publications included ''The Flora Sylvatica for Southern India'', 1869–73; ''Ferns of Southern India'', 1873; ''Ferns of British India'', 1876; ''Forester's Manual of Botany for Southern India'', 1869–74; ''Icones Plantarum Indies Orientalis'', 1874.<ref>{{cite journal| author=Smith, Malcolm|title=A facsimile of R. H. Beddome's articles on Indian reptiles 1862–1870|journal= Archives of Natural History |volume =1| issue=10|pages=273–334| year=1940|doi=10.3366/jsbnh.1940.1.10.273}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|title=The angiosperm taxa of R.H. Beddome with notes on the dates of publication of two serially published works.|journal=Ann. Bot. Fennici|volume=49|pages=289–304|author=Turner, Ian M.|year=2012|issue=5–6|doi=10.5735/085.049.0601|s2cid=85191878|url=http://www.sekj.org/PDF/anb49-free/anb49-289i.pdf}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal|volume=21|issue=1|pages=108–109|year=2011|author=Kumar, C. Sathish|title=Richard Henry Beddome (1830–1911): A Centennial Remembrance|journal=Rheedea|url=http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120426005640/http://www.iaat.org.in/Rheedea21_108-109.pdf|archive-date=26 April 2012}}</ref>

On [[Reptilia]] and [[Batrachia]], he wrote at least 15 papers, and described over 40 new species of reptiles<ref>"Beddome". The Reptile Database. www.reptile-database.org.</ref> and amphibians.<ref>"Beddome". Amphibian Species of the World 5.5, an Online Reference. research.amnh.org/vz/amphibia.</ref><ref>{{cite journal|author=Ganesh SR|year=2011|title=Richard Henry Beddome and south India's herpetofauna - a tribute on his centennial death anniversary|journal=Cobra |volume=4|issue=2|pages=1–11|url=https://www.academia.edu/2430910}}</ref>

This is a complete list of his papers on [[Mollusca]]: ''Descriptions of some new Operculated Land-shells from Southern India and Ceylon'', 1S75. ''Descriptions of Land-shells from the Island of Koror, Pelew Group'', 1889. ''Descriptions of some new Land-shells from the Indian Region'', 1891. ''Notes on Indian and Ceylonese species of Glessula'', 1906. ''Descriptions of [[Tomigerus clausus|Labyrinthus cuclausus]] and [[Neocyclotidae|Neocyclotus]] Belli, n.spp., from Colombia'', 1908 and in conjunction with [[Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen|H. H. Godwin-Austen]]: ''New species of [[Cyclophorus (gastropod)|Cyclophorus]] and a [[Spiraculum (cyclophoriid)|Spiraculum]] from the Khasi and Naga Hills, Assam''.<ref name="Bedd"/>

Beddome described over 1,000 species of animals and plants.<ref name="Bedd2">
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Beddome formed a fine collection of land shells from India and other parts of the world, among which the minute forms were his favourites. His collection of specimens was presented to the [[British Museum]] at difficult times, and some specimens were also left with the [[Indian Museum]] at [[Calcutta]]. Further specimens are also in the [https://www.nms.ac.uk/ National Museums Scotland].

He married Mary Sophia Fullerton in 1862 in London.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=Southern Reporter and Cork Commercial Courier|date=20 February 1862|page=3|title=Married|via=[[British Newspaper Archive]]|url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000876/18620220/046/0003}}</ref> They had seven children, all christened in the [[Madras Presidency]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://familysearch.org/search/record/results?count=20&query=%2Bsurname%3Abeddome~%20%2Bbirth_year%3A1860-1880~%20%2Bfather_givenname%3A%22richard%20henry%22~%20%2Bfather_surname%3Abeddome%20%2Bmother_givenname%3A%22Mary%20Sophia%22~ | title=India, Births and Baptisms, 1786-1947 | at=Children of Richard and Maria Beddome |access-date=8 February 2015| publisher = The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints}}</ref> He retired in 1892 and lived at "Sispara", West Hill, [[Wandsworth]] until his death.<ref name="Bedd">{{cite journal|url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15237010|title=Obituary notices. Colonel Richard Henry Beddome|author=Godwin-Austen HH|author-link=Henry Haversham Godwin-Austen|journal=Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London|volume=10|year=1912|pages=50–53}}</ref>

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==Eponymous species==
[[File:Amphiesma beddomei head.jpg|thumb|''Hebius beddomei'' (Nilgiri keelback) named in honor of Richard Henry Beddome]]
Some of the species named in his honor are:
*''[[Rhinolophus beddomei]]'', lesser woolly horseshoe bat, a species of bat in the [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Rhinolophidae]]
*''[[Eutropis beddomei]]'',<ref name=EDR>Beolens, Bo; Watkins, Michael; Grayson, Michael (2011). ''The Eponym Dictionary of Reptiles''. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. xiii + 296 pp. {{ISBN|978-1-4214-0135-5}}. ("Beddome", p. 21).</ref> Beddome's skink, a species of lizard in the family [[Scincidae]]
*''[[Otocryptis beddomii]]'',<ref name=EDR/> Beddome's kangaroo lizard, a species of lizard in the family [[Agamidae]]
*''[[Ristella beddomii]]'',<ref name=EDR/> Beddome's cat [[skink]], a species of lizard endemic to India
*''Cnemaspis beddomei'',<ref name=EDR/> [[Beddome's day gecko]], a species of [[gecko]] found in the [[Western Ghats]]
*''[[Kaestlea beddomii]]'',<ref name=EDR/> a species of skink found in the Western Ghats
*''[[Ophisops beddomei]]'',<ref name=EDR/> Beddome's snake-eye, a species of lizard in the family [[Lacertidae]]
*''[[Gerrhopilus beddomii]]'',<ref name=EDR/> Beddome's worm snake, a species of [[blind snake]] found in southern India
*''[[Uropeltis beddomii]]'',<ref name=EDR/> Beddome's shield-tail snake, a species of snake in the family [[Uropeltidae]], endemic to India
*''[[Boiga beddomei]]'',<ref name=EDR/> Beddome's cat snake, a species of snake found in Sri Lanka and India (Western Ghats)
*''[[Hebius beddomei]]'',<ref name=EDR/> Beddome's keelback, a species of snake found in the Western Ghats
*''[[Calliophis beddomei]]'',<ref name=EDR/> Beddome's coral snake, a species of venomous snake in the family [[Elapidae]]
*''[[Ichthyophis beddomei]]'', Beddome's caecilian, a species of [[caecilian]] in the family [[Ichthyophiidae]]
*''[[Duttaphrynus beddomii]]'', Beddome's toad, a species of frog endemic to the Western Ghats
*''[[Raorchestes beddomii]]'', Beddome's bush frog, a species of frog in the family [[Rhacophoridae]]
*''[[Nyctibatrachus beddomii]]'', Beddome's night frog, a species of frog in the family [[Nyctibatrachidae]]
*''[[Indirana beddomii]]'', Beddome's litter frog, a species of frog in the family [[Ranixalidae]]
*''[[Mariaella beddomei]]'', a species of [[gastropod]]
*''[[Hemiplecta beddomii]]'', a species of gastropod
*''[[Cycas beddomei]]'', a species of [[cycad]] from India
*''[[Syzygium beddomei]]'', a species of plant in the family [[Myrtaceae]] endemic to India
*''[[Cynometra beddomei]]'', a species of plant in the family [[Fabaceae]] endemic to India
*''[[Psychotria beddomei]]'', a species of plant in the family [[Rubiaceae]] endemic to India
*''[[Litsea beddomei]]'', a species of plant in the family [[Lauraceae]] endemic to India
*''[[Beddomixalus bijui]]'', a species of tree frog in the family [[Rhacophoridae]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==Further reading==
*Beddome RH (1875). "Descriptions of some new operculated land-shells from Southern India and Ceylon". ''[[Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London]]'' '''1875''' (3): 442–453 + Plates 52–53.

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*{{Internet Archive author |sname=Richard Henry Beddome}}
*{{cite journal|url=https://archive.org/stream/madrasjournalofl31madr#page/36/mode/2up |author=Beddome RH|year=1864|title=Contributions to the botany of Southern India|journal=Madras Journal of Literature and Science |series=Third Series|volume=1|pages=37–59}}
*[https://archive.org/details/FernsOfBritishIndia Handbook to the ferns of British India (1892)]
*[http://gwydir.demon.co.uk/jo/genealogy/beddome/richardhenry.htm#description Genealogy]

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