Suzanne J. Hand

Suzanne Joan Hand (born 1955) is Professor Emeritus at the University of New South Wales, a teacher of geology and biology, who has a special interest in vertebrate palaeontology and modern mammals. Her research has been published in over 250 articles and books, and is especially focused on the subjects of evolutionary biology, functional morphology, phylogenetics, and biogeography. Hand is a co-leader of the research team investigating the Riversleigh World Heritage Area, regarded as one of the four most important sites of fossil-bearing formations in the world.

Hand has described and named more than 140 new fossil taxa, including a new order, families, tribes, genera, and species of monotremes, marsupials, bats, birds, reptiles, and frogs. Amongst the recognition of Hand's contributions is the specific epithet of a fossil species of bird, Eoanseranas handae, discovered in the Riversleigh fossil sites.

Hand was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2024 King's Birthday Honours for "distinguished service to palaeontology and zoology, particularly as a fossil bat and marsupial researcher, and to tertiary education". She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales in 2001 and a Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2015.

Below is a list of taxa that Hand has contributed to naming: YearTaxonAuthors2026Miyumba chrisdickmani gen. et sp. nov.Churchill, Archer, Hand, & Farman 2026Phantasmodon minuferox sp. nov.Churchill, Archer, Hand, & Beck 2023Murgonornis archeri gen. et sp. nov.Worthy, De Pietri, Scofield, & Hand 2023Xenorhinos bhatnagari sp. nov.Hand, Archer, Gillespie, & Myers 2019Litorallus livezeyi gen. et sp. nov.Mather, Tennyson, Scofield, De Pietri, Hand, Archer, Handley, & Worthy 2019Priscaweka parvales gen. et sp. nov.Mather, Tennyson, Scofield, De Pietri, Hand, Archer, Handley, & Worthy 2018Xylonycteris stenodon gen. et sp. nov.Hand & Sigé 2016Microleo attenboroughi gen. et sp. nov.Gillespie, Archer, & Hand 2015Marnenycteris michauxi gen. et sp. nov.Hand, Sigé, Archer, Gunnell, & Simmons 2015Ganguroo robustifer sp. nov.Cooke, Travouillon, Archer, & Hand 2013Obdurodon tharalkooschild sp. nov.Pian, Archer, & Hand 2011Naraboryctes philcreaseri gen. et sp. nov.Archer, Beck, Gott, Hand, Godthelp, & Black 2010Kuiornis indicator gen. et sp. nov.Worthy, Hand, Nguyen, Tennyson, Worthy, Scofield, Boles, & Archer 2008Manuherikia douglasi sp. nov.Worthy, Tennyson, Hand, & Scofield 2007Warendja encorensis sp. nov.Brewer, Archer, Hand, & Godthelp 1998Xenorhinos halli gen. et sp. nov.Hand 1998Riversleigha williamsi gen. et sp. nov.Hand