The animal life of a particular region, or period, considered as a whole:

• faunology
• fauna
• faunist
• herpetofauna
• psammofauna

From Late Latin Fauna, sister or wife of Faunus, a nature god; adopted by Linnaeus as a parallel to Flora.

Carl von Linné (1707–1778), was a Swedish botanist who proposed the modern system of biological nomenclature or terminology.

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