• Source: 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.




Taxonomic history


The genus was originally described by G. M. Thomson as "Boeckia", in honour of Jonas Axel Boeck (1833–1873). 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.




References

Kata Kunci Pencarian:

• Boeckella
• Boeckella calcaris
• Boeckella bispinosa
• Boeckella nyoraensis
• Boeckella shieli
• Boeckella geniculata
• Boeckella palustris
• Hope Bay
• Antarctic lakes
• B. palustris