hodgsoni
Hodgsoni is a Latin-derived species epithet used in zoological nomenclature to honor the English naturalist Brian Houghton Hodgson. The form hodgsoni is the masculine genitive ending, and it appears in the scientific names of various species that Hodgson contributed to or was associated with, especially from the Indian subcontinent and the Himalayan region.
As a binomial component, hodgsoni does not designate a single species or a single group; rather, it
Taxonomic notes emphasize that hodgsoni is a species epithet, not a genus or higher-level taxon. Epithets like
See also: Hodgson (surname), list of taxa named after Hodgson.