Iterative interactions between functional brain imaging in humans and mechanistic research in other animals hold great promise for understanding and treating mental health and neurological disorders. One way to accelerate discovery in this domain is to develop a unified, widely accepted vocabulary for describing structural and functional localization in the mammalian brain. To facilitate generation of such a defined nomenclature we begun by creating a table for direct mapping between terms for describing cerebral cortex parcellation according to six schemes in human, three schemes in mouse, and two schemes in rat. Use, refinement, and expansion of this model could lead to the development of a standardized structural neuroscience terminology, such as those long employed successfully in fields like chemistry, electrical engineering, and the naming of species.