WoRMS name details
original description
Benham, W. B. (1950). Polychaeta of the Auckland and Campbell Islands. <em>New Zealand Department of Scientific and Industrial Research Cape Expedition Series Bulletin.</em> 10: 1-26. page(s): 13-16 [details]
status source
Hartman, O.; Fauchald, K. (1971). Deep-water benthic polychaetous annelids off New England to Bermuda and other North Atlantic Areas. Part II. <em>Allan Hancock Monographs in Marine Biology.</em> 6: 1-327., available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/3458 page(s): 31 [details]
From editor or global species database
Etymology The genus is named after W.H. Dawbin, field collector responsibe for collecting the type material: "In the present collection only one species not hitherto recorded was gathered, and it has been necessary to found a new genus for this little creature, which belongs to a family of which only one, or perhaps two, species has hitherto been described. I have named it after Mr. Dawbin, as assiduous and keen-eyed zoologist who was responsible for the majority of the Polychaeta collected. [...] Hence the worm requires new generic title, and what better name can be suggested than that of its discoverer, Mr. W. H. Dawbin." (Benham, 1950: 3, 16). [details]
Taxonomy Described in Pisionidae. Hartman & Fauchald (1971) transferred Dawbinia to Nereididae, on the basis of the description and figures. [details]
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