Pierre Fauvel

Pierre Louis André Fauvel (8 October 1866, in Cherbourg – 12 September 1958, in Angers) was a French zoologist, who specialized in the study of polychaetes.

He worked as a préparateur of zoology at the faculty of sciences in Caen, and in 1897 received his doctorate at the Sorbonne with a thesis on Ampharetidae. During the same year, he became a professor of zoology at the Université Catholique de l'Ouest in Angers, where he remained until his retirement in 1951.^[1][2]

The polychaete family Fauveliopsidae bears his name, as does the genera Fauveliopsis.^[3] Along with his many writings on Polychaeta, he was also the author of publications in the fields of physiology and dietetics.^[2]

Selected works

• Recherches sur les Ampharétiens, 1897 – Research on Ampharetidae.
• Sur les stades Clymenides et Branchiomaldane des arenicoles, 1899 – On the genera Clymenides and Branchiomaldane of Arenicolidae.
• Polychètes errantes, 1923 – Wandering polychaetes.
• Polychètes sédentaires; addenda aux errantes, archiandélides, myzostomaires, 1927 – Sedentary polychaetes.
• Annélides polychètes de Nouvelle-Calédonie et des îles Gambier, 1947 – Polychaete annelids of New Caledonia and the Gambier Islands.^[4]
• Annelida Polychaeta 1953, in: "The Fauna of India".

References

1. Types of polychaetous annelids at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris Science Press / MNHN
2. Fauvel, Pierre Enciclopedia Italiana
3. Fauveliopsis McIntosh, 1922 WoRMS
4. HathiTrust Digital Library (published works)