Boeckella
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 – the Australian endemics B. bispinosa, B. geniculata, B. nyoraensis, ''B. shieli, and B. calcaris from Bolivia and Peru.
Boeckella ambigua Percival, 1937Boeckella antiqua Menu-Marque & Balseiro, 2000Boeckella asymmetrica Searle, 1914Boeckella bergi Richard, 1897Boeckella bispinosa Bayly, 1967Boeckella brevicaudata Boeckella calcaris Boeckella coronaria Henry, 1922Boeckella delicata Percival, 1937Boeckella denticornis Brehm, 1950Boeckella diamantina Menu-Marque & Zúñiga, 1994Boeckella dilatata G. O. Sars, 1904Boeckella erubescens Boeckella fluvialis Henry, 1922Boeckella geniculata Bayly, 1964Boeckella gibbosa Boeckella gracilipes Daday, 1901Boeckella gracilis Boeckella hamata Brehm, 1928Boeckella klutei Boeckella lacuna Fairbridge, 1945Boeckella longicauda Daday, 1901Boeckella longisetosa G. W. Smith, 1909Boeckella major Searle, 1938Boeckella meteoris Kiefer, 1928Boeckella michaelseni Boeckella minuta G. O. Sars, 1896Boeckella montana Bayly, 1964Boeckella nyoraensis Searle, 1912Boeckella occidentalis Marsh, 1906Boeckella opaqua Fairbridge, 1945Boeckella palustris Boeckella pilkililli Quinlan & Bayly, 2017Boeckella poopoensis Marsh, 1906Boeckella poppei Boeckella propinqua G. O. Sars, 1904Boeckella pseudochelae Searle, 1912Boeckella robusta G. O. Sars, 1896Boeckella rubra G. W. Smith, 1909Boeckella saycei G. O. Sars, 1908Boeckella shieli Bayly, 1985Boeckella silvestri Boeckella symmetrica G. O. Sars, 1908Boeckella tanea Chapman, 1973Boeckella thomseni Brehm, 1937Boeckella timmsi Bayly, 1998Boeckella titicacae Harding, 1955Boeckella triarticulata Boeckella vallentini''Taxonomic history
The genus was originally described by G. M. Thomson as "Boeckia", in honour of Jonas Axel Boeck. 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.