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Kristian Fauchald

Researcher at National Museum of Natural History

Publications -  76
Citations -  7404

Kristian Fauchald is an academic researcher from National Museum of Natural History. The author has contributed to research in topics: Eunicidae & Monophyly. The author has an hindex of 29, co-authored 76 publications receiving 7025 citations. Previous affiliations of Kristian Fauchald include University of Southern California & Foundation University, Islamabad.

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The Diet of Worms: A Study of Polychaete Feeding Guilds

TL;DR: A review of the eating habits of polychaetes can be found in this article, where the polychaete families are arranged in alphabetical order and the feeding habits of each are summarized.

The polychaete worms. Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera

TL;DR: A review of the classification of the Class Polychaeta (Annelida) with comments on the characters used to identify the different included taxa has led to the recognition of seventeen orders.
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The magnitude of global marine species diversity

Ward Appeltans, +125 more
- 04 Dec 2012 - 
TL;DR: The first register of the marine species of the world is compiled and it is estimated that between one-third and two-thirds of marine species may be undescribed, and previous estimates of there being well over one million marine species appear highly unlikely.
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Cladistics and polychaetes

TL;DR: A series of cladistic analyses assesses the status and membership of the taxon Polychaeta and provides a new classification, which does not use Linnaean categories, and comprises two clades, the Scolecida and Palpata.