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.

The polychaete family ''Fauveliopsidae'' bears his name, as does the genus ''Fauveliopsis''. Along with his many writings on ''Polychaeta'', he was also the author of publications in the fields of physiology and dietetics.

His zoological author abbreviation is Fauvel. Provided by Wikipedia