{{Short description|French zoologist}} '''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.<ref>[http://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/z2004n3a2.pdf Types of polychaetous annelids at the Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Paris] Science Press / MNHN</ref><ref name=TR>[http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/pierre-fauvel_(Enciclopedia-Italiana)/ Fauvel, Pierre] Enciclopedia Italiana</ref>
The polychaete family ''Fauveliopsidae'' bears his name, as does the genus ''Fauveliopsis''.<ref>[http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=129288 Fauveliopsis McIntosh, 1922] WoRMS</ref> Along with his many writings on ''Polychaeta'', he was also the author of publications in the fields of physiology and dietetics.<ref name=TR/>
His zoological author abbreviation is '''Fauvel'''.<ref name="afd">{{Cite web |title=Australian Faunal Directory: ''Ficopomatus enigmaticus'' |url=https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/Ficopomatus_enigmaticus |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=biodiversity.org.au |language=en}}</ref>
==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.<ref>[https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Search/Home?lookfor=%22Fauvel,Pierre.%22&type=author&inst= HathiTrust Digital Library] (published works)</ref> *[//archive.org/details/FBIPolychaeta ''Annelida Polychaeta''] 1953, in: "The Fauna of India".
==See also== * Taxa named by Pierre Fauvel
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://w.wiki/5mjL Wikidata query] of taxa he named.
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