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, 1937
  • Boeckella antiqua Menu-Marque & Balseiro, 2000
  • Boeckella asymmetrica Searle, 1914
  • Boeckella bergi Richard, 1897
  • Boeckella bispinosa Bayly, 1967
  • Boeckella brevicaudata
  • Boeckella calcaris
  • Boeckella coronaria Henry, 1922
  • Boeckella delicata Percival, 1937
  • Boeckella denticornis Brehm, 1950
  • Boeckella diamantina Menu-Marque & Zúñiga, 1994
  • Boeckella dilatata G. O. Sars, 1904
  • Boeckella erubescens
  • Boeckella fluvialis Henry, 1922
  • Boeckella geniculata Bayly, 1964
  • Boeckella gibbosa
  • Boeckella gracilipes Daday, 1901
  • Boeckella gracilis
  • Boeckella hamata Brehm, 1928
  • Boeckella klutei
  • Boeckella lacuna Fairbridge, 1945
  • Boeckella longicauda Daday, 1901
  • Boeckella longisetosa G. W. Smith, 1909
  • Boeckella major Searle, 1938
  • Boeckella meteoris Kiefer, 1928
  • Boeckella michaelseni
  • Boeckella minuta G. O. Sars, 1896
  • Boeckella montana Bayly, 1964
  • Boeckella nyoraensis Searle, 1912
  • Boeckella occidentalis Marsh, 1906
  • Boeckella opaqua Fairbridge, 1945
  • Boeckella palustris
  • Boeckella pilkililli Quinlan & Bayly, 2017
  • Boeckella poopoensis Marsh, 1906
  • Boeckella poppei
  • Boeckella propinqua G. O. Sars, 1904
  • Boeckella pseudochelae Searle, 1912
  • Boeckella robusta G. O. Sars, 1896
  • Boeckella rubra G. W. Smith, 1909
  • Boeckella saycei G. O. Sars, 1908
  • Boeckella shieli Bayly, 1985
  • Boeckella silvestri
  • Boeckella symmetrica G. O. Sars, 1908
  • Boeckella tanea Chapman, 1973
  • Boeckella thomseni Brehm, 1937
  • Boeckella timmsi Bayly, 1998
  • Boeckella titicacae Harding, 1955
  • Boeckella 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.