Boeckella
Boeckella is a genus of copepods in the family Centropagidae.Species
The genus Boeckella contains 53 species, of which five are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List – the Australian endemics B. bispinosa, B. geniculata, B. nyoraensis and B. shieli, and B. calcaris from Bolivia and Peru.
- Boeckella ambigua Percival, 1937
- Boeckella anderssonorum
- Boeckella antiqua Menu-Marque & Balseiro, 2000
- Boeckella asymmetrica Searle, 1914
- Boeckella bergi Richard, 1897
- Boeckella bispinosa Bayly, 1967
- Boeckella brasiliensis
- 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 insignis G. W. Smith, 1909
- Boeckella klutei
- Boeckella lacuna Fairbridge, 1945
- Boeckella longicauda Daday, 1901
- Boeckella longicornis
- 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 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 tenera G. O. Sars, 1912
- 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.
