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Polychaeta taxon detailsHobsonia Banse, 1979
325206 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325206)
accepted
Genus
Amphicteis gunneri floridus Hartman, 1951 accepted as Hobsonia florida (Hartman, 1951) (type by monotypy)
marine, brackish,
recent only
feminine
Banse, Karl. (1979). Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) from British Columbia and Washington. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 57(8): 1543-1552., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z79-202
page(s): 1546 [details] Available for editors  [request]
Etymology Named after Katharine Dekker Hobson, thus the genus is feminine
Etymology Named after Katharine Dekker Hobson, thus the genus is feminine [details] Status Hobsonia was excluded from the Ampharetidae key of Jirkov (2011) and he placed it as a genus of uncertain taxonomical...
Status Hobsonia was excluded from the Ampharetidae key of Jirkov (2011) and he placed it as a genus of uncertain taxonomical status, reasons unstated. Banse (1979) appears to make careful comparisons to other genera when he established Hobsonia, and the genus subsequently has been widely used with Hobsonia florida regarded as invasive, perhaps with weak justification. [details]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Hobsonia Banse, 1979. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325206 on 2026-06-15
Date action by
original description
Banse, Karl. (1979). Ampharetidae (Polychaeta) from British Columbia and Washington. <em>Canadian Journal of Zoology.</em> 57(8): 1543-1552., available online at https://doi.org/10.1139/z79-202
page(s): 1546 [details] Available for editors [request]status source Jirkov, Igor A. (2011). Discussion of taxonomic characters and classification of Ampharetidae (Polychaeta). <em>Italian Journal of Zoology.</em> 78(Supplement 1): 78-94., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/11250003.2011.617216 page(s): 94; note: Hobsonia was excluded from the Ampharetidae key of Jirkov (2011) and he placed it as a genus of uncertain taxonomical status, reasons unstated. [details] Available for editors [request]From editor or global species database
Etymology Named after Katharine Dekker Hobson, thus the genus is feminine [details]Status Hobsonia was excluded from the Ampharetidae key of Jirkov (2011) and he placed it as a genus of uncertain taxonomical status, reasons unstated. Banse (1979) appears to make careful comparisons to other genera when he established Hobsonia, and the genus subsequently has been widely used with Hobsonia florida regarded as invasive, perhaps with weak justification. [details] |
