Progress and perspectives in the discovery of polychaete worms (Annelida) of the world

Table 2 The top 25 most prolific first authors along with their numbers of polychaete species described, first and last discoveries, cumulative proportion of the number of polychaete species described, publication lifetime and the number of non-polychaete species described

First author	Polychaete species described	First discovery	Cumulative % of species described by				Last discovery	Publication lifetime	Non-polychaete species described
First author	Polychaete species described	First discovery	1850	1900	1950	2000	Last discovery	Publication lifetime	Non-polychaete species described
G. Hartmann-Schröder	517	1956	0	0	0	100	1998	43	4
O. Hartman	473	1936	0	0	26	100	1971	36	1
A. E. Grube	468	1840	5	100	100	0	1881	42	78
W. C. McIntosh	297	1868	0	82	100	0	1924	57	14
E. Ehlers	262	1864	0	53	100	0	1920	57	6
M. Imajima	239	1959	0	0	0	78	2013	55	0
J. P. Moore	223	1894	0	2	100	0	1923	30	7
H. Augener	217	1906	0	0	98	100	1970¹	65	2
J. G. H. Kinberg	212	1855	0	100	100	0	1910²	56	0
J. A. Blake	206	1969	0	0	0	85	2016	48	0
P. A. Hutchings	197	1974	0	0	0	89	2015	42	0
J. H. Day	192	1934	0	0	6	100	1977	44	0
K. Fauchald	188	1965	0	0	0	100	2012	48	0
A. L. Treadwell	168	1900	0	1	100	0	1945	46	0
M. H. Pettibone	158	1948	0	0	1	100	1997	50	0
P. Fauvel	142	1900	0	1	95	100	1959	60	0
A. de Quatrefages	141	1843	9	100	0	0	1870	28	22
R. V. Chamberlin³	131	1918	0	0	100	0	1920	3	1652³
A. E. Verrill	123	1873	0	99	100	0	1901	29	730
C. C. A. Monro	121	1924	0	0	100	0	1939	16	0
R. Horst	116	1889	0	3	100	0	1924	36	1
G. San Martín	112	1982	0	0	0	45	2014	33	0
L. K. Schmarda	111	1861	0	100	0	0	1861	1	92
C. Gravier	107	1896	0	24	100	0	1936	41	47
M. Caullery	103	1896	0	11	100	0	1944	49	28
Total	5224

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