Anna J. Phillips

Anna J. Phillips is an American Research Zoologist and curator of Clitellata and Cestoda at the National Museum of Natural History's Department of Invertebrate Zoology.

As a parasitologist her research focuses on leeches and tapeworms, by studying their diversity, relationships, and host associations.

In 2013, she became a research zoologist and curator at the National Museum of Natural History in the Department of Invertebrate Zoology.

[3] Phillips helped oversee the transfer of the United States National Parasite Collection to the Natural History Museum.

She collects specimens to describe new species and find out evolutionary connections of the worms, while also using morphological and molecular data.