Kristian Fauchald

Research Zoologist, Curator of Worms

National Museum of Natural History

Smithsonian Institution

Washington, D.C. 20560-0163

fauchald.kristian@nmnh.si.edu

Research Interests

Systematics and phylogeny of Annelida based on morphological and ecological features.

Current Research Projects

The scale worms: Study of the Aphroditaceans at all hierarchical levels including analysis of characters and character-states.

Recent Publications

Fauchald, K. and G. Rouse, 1997. Polychaete Systematics: Past and Present. Zoologica Scripta 26:71-138

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

Beesley, P.I., G.J.B. Ross and C.J. Glasby 2000. Polychaetes & Allies: The Southern Synthesis. Fauna of Australia 4A Polychaeta, Myzostomida, Pogonophora, Echiura, Sipuncula. CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne XII and 465 pp. (several small chapters co-authored with various authors).