1965- Danish zoologist whose work in arctic biology has contributed toward understanding the co-evolutionary nature of lifecycles and morphology of animals in arctic ecosystems. Funch's extensive research in Greenland led to the discovery of...

Symbion is a genus of peculiar microscopic animals, with no obvious close relatives, and which was therefore given its own phylum, called Cycliophora. Symbion was discovered in 1995 by Reinhardt Kristensen and Peter Funch on the mouthparts of the Norway...