Boeckella is a genus of copepods in the family Centropagidae.
Species
The genus Boeckella contains 49 species, of which five are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List â the Australian endemics B. bispinosa, B. geniculata, B. nyoraensis, B. shieli, and B. calcaris from Bolivia and Peru.
- Boeckella ambigua <small>Percival, 1937</small>
- Boeckella antiqua <small>Menu-Marque & Balseiro, 2000</small>
- Boeckella asymmetrica <small>Searle, 1914</small>
- Boeckella bergi <small>Richard, 1897</small>
- Boeckella bispinosa <small>Bayly, 1967</small>
- Boeckella brevicaudata <small>(Brady, 1875)</small>
- Boeckella calcaris <small>(Harding, 1955)</small>
- Boeckella coronaria <small>Henry, 1922</small>
- Boeckella delicata <small>Percival, 1937</small>
- Boeckella denticornis <small>Brehm, 1950</small>
- Boeckella diamantina <small>Menu-Marque & Zúñiga, 1994</small>
- Boeckella dilatata <small>G. O. Sars, 1904</small>
- Boeckella erubescens <small>(Brehm, 1935)</small>
- Boeckella fluvialis <small>Henry, 1922</small>
- Boeckella geniculata <small>Bayly, 1964</small>
- Boeckella gibbosa <small>(Brehm, 1935)</small>
- Boeckella gracilipes <small>Daday, 1901</small>
- Boeckella gracilis <small>(Daday, 1902)</small>
- Boeckella hamata <small>Brehm, 1928</small>
- Boeckella klutei <small>(Brehm, 1926)</small>
- Boeckella lacuna <small>Fairbridge, 1945</small>
- Boeckella longicauda <small>Daday, 1901</small>
- Boeckella longisetosa <small>G. W. Smith, 1909</small>
- Boeckella major <small>Searle, 1938</small>
- Boeckella meteoris <small>Kiefer, 1928</small>
- Boeckella michaelseni <small>(Mrázek, 1901)</small>
- Boeckella minuta <small>G. O. Sars, 1896</small>
- Boeckella montana <small>Bayly, 1964</small>
- Boeckella nyoraensis <small>Searle, 1912</small>
- Boeckella occidentalis <small>Marsh, 1906</small>
- Boeckella opaqua <small>Fairbridge, 1945</small>
- Boeckella palustris <small>(Harding, 1955)</small>
- Boeckella pilkililli <small>Quinlan & Bayly, 2017</small>
- Boeckella poopoensis <small>Marsh, 1906</small>
- Boeckella poppei <small>(Mrázek, 1901)</small>
- Boeckella propinqua <small>G. O. Sars, 1904</small>
- Boeckella pseudochelae <small>Searle, 1912</small>
- Boeckella robusta <small>G. O. Sars, 1896</small>
- Boeckella rubra <small>G. W. Smith, 1909</small>
- Boeckella saycei <small>G. O. Sars, 1908</small>
- Boeckella shieli <small>Bayly, 1985</small>
- Boeckella silvestri <small>(Daday, 1901)</small>
- Boeckella symmetrica <small>G. O. Sars, 1908</small>
- Boeckella tanea <small>Chapman, 1973</small>
- Boeckella thomseni <small>Brehm, 1937</small>
- Boeckella timmsi <small>Bayly, 1998</small>
- Boeckella titicacae <small>Harding, 1955</small>
- Boeckella triarticulata <small>(G. M. Thomson, 1883)</small>
- Boeckella vallentini <small>(T. Scott, 1914)</small>
Taxonomic history
The genus was originally described by G. M. Thomson as "Boeckia", in honour of Jonas Axel Boeck (1833âÂÂ1873). That name proved, however, to be a junior homonym of Boeckia, a genus of Amphipoda, and so Jules de Guerne and Jules Richard provided it with the replacement name Boeckella in 1889.
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