Hombron & Jacquinot naming a genus Jonas in honor of him; this is a crab genus in the family Corystidae. A number of marine gastropod species use the epithet "jonasii" or jonasi in his honor.[3]
Arcularia jonasii (Dunker, 1846): synonym of Nassarius jonasii Dunker, 1846
Jonas sometimes also published as "J." H. Jonas.[4]
He studied, together with Wilhelm Dunker, the "Museum Gruneri", a large collection of species in the bivalve family Pteriidae. This study was published as Verzeichniß der Conchyliensammlung des verstorbenen Herrn Consul Gruner, welche im Ganzen verkauft werden soll von Bunsen Hausschild 1857. Bremer Druck 1857.[5]
In 1846 Jonas described the "Rodatz collection". Rodatz collected many mollusks during a number of commercial expeditions from Germany to Zanzibar and West Africa in the period of 1843–51, and from the Red Sea in 1845. He had offered his specimens to Naturhistorisches Museum Hamburg [de].[6]
^Coan, Eugene V.; Kabat, Alan R. 2,400 Years of Malacology(PDF) (12th ed.). American Malacological Society. p. 595. Archived from the original(PDF) on 2017-12-09. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
^Jonas, I. H., 1846, Beitrag zur Erklärung der in der Description de l’Égypte abgebildeten, nebst Beschreibung einiger anderer im rothen Meer und den angrenzenden Ländern leben- den Mollusken. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie, 3(4+5+10): 59–64, 65–67, 120–127