Hobbseus

{{Short description|Genus of crayfishes}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Hobbseus

| authority = (Fitzpatrick & Payne, 1968){{ITIS |id=97634 |taxon=Hobbseus Fitzpatrick and Payne, 1968 |accessdate=March 4, 2011}}

| type_species = Hobbseus cristatus

| type_species_authority = (Hobbs, 1955)

}}

Hobbseus is a genus of crayfish in the family Cambaridae. It comprises seven species, six of which are endemic to Mississippi; H. prominens is the only species to range outside Mississippi, being also found in Alabama.{{citation |author=Susan B. Adams |year=2008 |title=Hobbseus prominens |version=1.0 |publisher=United States Forest Service |work=Crayfishes of Mississippi website |location=Oxford, Mississippi |url=http://maps.fs.fed.us/crayfish/factsheets/FS0034.pdf }}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}{{cite web |url=http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/genus.asp?g=Hobbseus |title=Genus Hobbseus Fitzpatrick and Payne, 1968 |work=Crayfish Taxon Browser |author=James W. Fetzner Jr. |publisher=Carnegie Museum of Natural History |date=January 14, 2008 |access-date=March 16, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120221222604/http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/NewAstacidea/genus.asp?g=Hobbseus |archive-date=February 21, 2012 |url-status=dead |df=mdy-all }} Three of the seven species are listed as endangered (EN) on the IUCN Red List, while three are of uncertain status (DD) and one is of least concern (LC).

• Hobbseus attenuatus Black, 1969 – File:Status iucn DD icon.svg{{Cite iucn | author = S. Adams, J. Cordeiro & C. A. Taylor | title = Hobbseus attenuatus | volume = 2010 | page = e.T10205A3183051 | date = 2010 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T10205A3183051.en | access-date = 9 January 2018}}
• Hobbseus cristatus (Hobbs, 1955) – File:Status iucn DD icon.svg{{Cite iucn | author = S. Adams | title = Hobbseus cristatus | volume = 2010 | page = e.T10206A3183194 | date = 2010 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T10206A3183194.en | access-date = 9 January 2018}}
• Hobbseus orconectoides Fitzpatrick & Payne, 1968 – File:Status iucn EN icon.svg{{Cite iucn | author = S. Adams | author2 = J. Cordeiro | author3 = R.L. Jones | name-list-style = amp | title = Hobbseus orconectoides | volume = 2010 | page = e.T10207A3183343 | date = 2010 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T10207A3183343.en | access-date = 9 January 2018}}
• Hobbseus petilus Fitzpatrick, 1977 – File:Status iucn DD icon.svg{{Cite iucn | author = S. Adams | title = Hobbseus petilus | volume = 2010 | page = e.T10208A3181826 | date = 2010 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T10208A3181826.en | access-date = 9 January 2018}}
• Hobbseus prominens (Hobbs, 1966) – File:Status iucn LC icon.svg{{Cite iucn | author = S. Adams | title = Hobbseus prominens | volume = 2010 | page = e.T153957A4568885 | date = 2010 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T153957A4568885.en | access-date = 9 January 2018}}
• Hobbseus valleculus (Fitzpatrick, 1967) – File:Status iucn EN icon.svg{{Cite iucn | author = S. Adams | author2 = J. Cordeiro | author3 = R.L. Jones | name-list-style = amp | title = Hobbseus valleculus | volume = 2010 | page = e.T10209A3182132 | date = 2010 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T10209A3182132.en | access-date = 9 January 2018}}
• Hobbseus yalobushensis Fitzpatrick & Busack, 1989 – File:Status iucn EN icon.svg{{Cite iucn | author = S. Adams | title = Hobbseus yalobushensis | volume = 2010 | page = e.T10210A3182516 | date = 2010 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.2010-3.RLTS.T10210A3182516.en | access-date = 9 January 2018}}