Hobbs honoured

Russ Hobbs, a parasite taxonomist at Murdoch, has been “honoured” by having a two centimetre long nematode worm named after him.
    Found in the guts of a native mammal — a phascogale — by a Murdoch biology student, the worm was given to Mr Hobbs for identification.
    “The worm looked interesting, but it was not from one of the particular parasite groups that I work with, so I sent it to (parasite expert) Leslie Smales in Rockhampton,” he said.
    Later he found that she had named it after him — Seurechina hobbsi.
    “I was quite chuffed,” said Mr Hobbs.

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