| The diet of worms: a study of polychaete feeding guilds K Fauchald, PA Jumars Oceanography and marine Biology annual review, 1979 | 2913 | 1979 |
| The polychaete worms. Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera K Fauchald Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Science Series, 1977 | 1922 | 1977 |
| The magnitude of global marine species diversity W Appeltans, ST Ahyong, G Anderson, MV Angel, T Artois, N Bailly, ... Current biology 22 (23), 2189-2202, 2012 | 1197 | 2012 |
| Cladistics and polychaetes GW Rouse, K Fauchald Zoologica Scripta 26 (2), 139-204, 1997 | 875 | 1997 |
| Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic areas. Part II O Hartman, K Fauchald Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology, 1971 | 566 | 1971 |
| Polychaete systematics: past and present K Fauchald, G Rouse Zoologica scripta 26 (2), 71-138, 1997 | 458 | 1997 |
| World register of marine species W Appeltans, P Bouchet, GA Boxshall, K Fauchald, DP Gordon, ... | 438 | 2012 |
| Benthic polychaetous annelids from deep water off western Mexico and adjacent areas in the eastern Pacific Ocean K Fauchald Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology, 1972 | 341 | 1972 |
| World polychaeta database G Read, K Fauchald Pseudopotamilla laciniosa, 2020 | 261 | 2020 |
| Polychaetes from intertidal areas in Panama, with a review of previous shallow-water records K Fauchald | 249 | 1977 |
| Global coordination and standardisation in marine biodiversity through the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) and related databases MJ Costello, P Bouchet, G Boxshall, K Fauchald, D Gordon, ... PloS one 8 (1), e51629, 2013 | 225 | 2013 |
| Polychaetous annelids of the families Eunicidae, Lumbrineridae, Iphitimidae, Arabellidae, Lysaretidae and Dorvilleidae from western Mexico K Fauchald Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology, 1970 | 211 | 1970 |
| A deep-sea benthic community exposed to strong near-bottom currents on the Scotian Rise (western Atlantic) D Thistle, JY Yingst, K Fauchald Marine Geology 66 (1-4), 91-112, 1985 | 209 | 1985 |
| A Review of the Genus Eunice (Polychaeta: Eunicidae) Based upon Type Material K Fauchald | 203 | 1992 |
| The articulation of annelids GW Rouse, K Fauchald Zoologica Scripta 24 (4), 269-301, 1995 | 198 | 1995 |
| The polychaete worms K Fauchald Definitions and keys to the orders, families and genera, 1977 | 194 | 1977 |
| Between-community contrasts in successful polychaete feeding strategies PA Jumars, K Fauchald Ecology of marine benthos, 1-20, 1977 | 148 | 1977 |
| Class polychaeta CJ Glasby, J Gil, D Martin Academic Press, 2020 | 124 | 2020 |
| Revision of Onuphis, Nothria, and Paradiopatra (Polychaeta: Onuphidae) based upon type material K Fauchald | 105 | 1982 |
| Polychaete phylogeny: a problem in protostome evolution K Fauchald Systematic Biology 23 (4), 493-506, 1974 | 105 | 1974 |
