Kristian FauchaldResearch Zoologist

• Phone: 202-633-1777
• Fax: 202-357-3043
• E-mail: fauchald@si.edu


• Mailing Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  PO Box 37012, MRC 163
  Washington, DC 20013-7012
  


• Courier Delivery Address:
  Smithsonian Institution
  National Museum of Natural History
  10th and Constitution Ave, NW
  Washington, DC 20560-0163
  

Responsibilities: Research Zoologist, Curator of Polychaeta

Education: Cand. mag. and cand. real. University of Bergen, Norway
Ph.D. University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Research Interests: Systematics, phylogeny and taxonomy of annelids, specifically the marine groups that used to be called Polychaeta. I have spent about 50 years working on these worms, and have participated in making it obvious that the polychaetes are a paraphyletic assemblage of annelids! Currently focusing on the scale worm family Polynoidae, which includes a large number of species commensal with all sorts of other invertebrates.

Professional Activities: Mostly in the past as officer at various levels in such societies as the Southern California Academy of Sciences, Biological Society of Washington, Society for Systematic Zoology and American Society of Zoologists (currently Society for Integrative and Comparative Biology).

Selected Publications:



Fauchald, K. 1974. Polychaete phylogeny: A problem in protostome evolution. Systematic Zoology 23: 493-506.

Fauchald, K. 1977. The polychaete worms. Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera. Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series 28: 1-188

Fauchald, K. & Jumars, P. A. 1979. The diet of worms: A study of polychaete feeding guilds. Oceanography and Marine Biology, Annual Review 17: 193-284.

Fauchald, K. 1980. Onuphidae (Polychaeta) from Belize, Central America, with notes on related taxa. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 93: 797-829.

Fauchald, K. 1982. Description of Mooreonuphis jonesi, a new species of onuphid polychaete from shallow water in Bermuda, with comments on variability and population ecology. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington 95: 807-825.

Fauchald, K. 1992 A review of the genus Eunice (Eunicidae: Polychaeta) based upon type material. Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology 523: 1-422.

Fauchald, K. 1992. Review of the types of Palola (Eunicidae: Polychaeta). Journal of Natural History 26: 1177-1225.

Fauchald, K. & Jumars, P. A. 1979. The diet of worms: A study of polychaete feeding guilds. Oceanography and Marine Biology, Annual Review 17: 193-284.

Fauchald, K. & Rouse, G. W. 1997. Polychaete systematics: Past and present. Zoologica Scripta 26: 71-138.

Rouse, G. W. & Fauchald, K. 1997. Cladistics and polychaetes. Zoologica Scripta 26: 139-204.

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