''Boeckella'' is a genus of
copepod
Copepods (; meaning 'oar-feet') are a group of small crustaceans found in nearly every freshwater and saltwater habitat (ecology), habitat. Some species are planktonic (living in the water column), some are benthos, benthic (living on the sedimen ...
s in the family
Centropagidae
Centropagidae is a family of copepods in the order Calanoida. Its members are particularly known as plankton in coastal waters and in fresh water in Australia and southern South America. They are also found on subantarctic islands
The sub-A ...
.
Species
The genus ''Boeckella'' contains 49 species,
of which five are listed as
vulnerable species
A vulnerable species is a species which has been Conservation status, categorized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature as being threatened species, threatened with extinction unless the circumstances that are threatened species, ...
on the
IUCN Red List
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– the
Australia
Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the Australia (continent), Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and list of islands of Australia, numerous smaller isl ...
n
endemics
Endemism is the state of a species being found only in a single defined geographic location, such as an island, state, nation, country or other defined zone; organisms that are indigenous to a place are not endemic to it if they are also foun ...
''B. bispinosa'', ''B. geniculata'', ''B. nyoraensis,'' ''B. shieli'', and ''B. calcaris'' from Bolivia and Peru.
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Boeckella ambigua''
Percival, 1937
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Boeckella antiqua''
Menu-Marque & Balseiro, 2000
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Boeckella asymmetrica''
Searle, 1914
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Boeckella bergi''
Richard, 1897
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Boeckella bispinosa''
Bayly, 1967
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Boeckella brevicaudata''
(Brady, 1875)
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Boeckella calcaris''
(Harding, 1955)
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Boeckella coronaria''
Henry, 1922
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Boeckella delicata''
Percival, 1937
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Boeckella denticornis''
Brehm, 1950
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Boeckella diamantina
''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. genicu ...
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Menu-Marque & Zúñiga, 1994
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Boeckella dilatata''
G. O. Sars, 1904
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Boeckella erubescens''
(Brehm, 1935)
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Boeckella fluvialis''
Henry, 1922
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Boeckella geniculata
''Boeckella geniculata'' is a species of calanoid copepod in the family Centropagidae
Centropagidae is a family of copepods in the order Calanoida. Its members are particularly known as plankton in coastal waters and in fresh water in Australi ...
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Bayly, 1964
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Boeckella gibbosa
''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. genicu ...
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(Brehm, 1935)
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Boeckella gracilipes
''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. genicu ...
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Daday, 1901
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Boeckella gracilis
''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. genicu ...
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(Daday, 1902)
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Boeckella hamata
''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. genicu ...
''
Brehm, 1928
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Boeckella klutei
''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. genicu ...
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(Brehm, 1926)
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Boeckella lacuna
''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. genicu ...
''
Fairbridge, 1945
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Boeckella longicauda
''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. genicu ...
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Daday, 1901
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Boeckella longisetosa
''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. genicu ...
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G. W. Smith, 1909
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Boeckella major
''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. genicu ...
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Searle, 1938
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Boeckella meteoris''
Kiefer, 1928
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Boeckella michaelseni''
(Mrázek, 1901)
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Boeckella minuta''
G. O. Sars, 1896
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Boeckella montana''
Bayly, 1964
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Boeckella nyoraensis''
Searle, 1912
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Boeckella occidentalis''
Marsh, 1906
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Boeckella opaqua
''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. genicu ...
''
Fairbridge, 1945
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Boeckella palustris''
(Harding, 1955)
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Boeckella pilkililli''
Quinlan & Bayly, 2017
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Boeckella poopoensis''
Marsh, 1906
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Boeckella poppei''
(Mrázek, 1901)
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Boeckella propinqua''
G. O. Sars, 1904
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Boeckella pseudochelae''
Searle, 1912
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Boeckella robusta''
G. O. Sars, 1896
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Boeckella rubra''
G. W. Smith, 1909
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Boeckella saycei''
G. O. Sars, 1908
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Boeckella shieli
''Boeckella shieli'' is a species of calanoid copepod in the family Centropagidae.
The IUCN conservation status of ''Boeckella shieli'' is "VU", vulnerable. The species faces a high risk of endangerment in the medium term. The IUCN status was r ...
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Bayly, 1985
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Boeckella silvestri''
(Daday, 1901)
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Boeckella symmetrica''
G. O. Sars, 1908
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Boeckella tanea''
Chapman, 1973
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Boeckella thomseni''
Brehm, 1937
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Boeckella timmsi''
Bayly, 1998
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Boeckella titicacae''
Harding, 1955
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Boeckella triarticulata
''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 endemism, endemics ''B. bispinosa'', ' ...
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(G. M. Thomson, 1883)
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Boeckella vallentini''
(T. Scott, 1914)
Taxonomic history
The genus was originally described by
G. M. Thomson
George Malcolm Thomson (2 October 1848 – 25 August 1933) was a New Zealand scientist, educationalist, social worker and politician.
Biography
Born on 2 October 1848 in Calcutta, Thomson grew up in Scotland, being educated at the Edinbur ...
as "''Boeckia''",
in honour of
Jonas Axel Boeck (1833–1873).
That name proved, however, to be a
junior homonym
In biology, a homonym is a name for a taxon that is identical in spelling to another such name, that belongs to a different taxon.
The rule in the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature is that the first such name to be published is the s ...
of ''
Boeckia
''Baeckea'' is a genus of flowering plants in the myrtle family, Myrtaceae, all but one endemism, endemic to Australia. Plants in the genus ''Baeckea'' are shrubs or small trees with leaves arranged in opposite pairs, white to deep pink flowers w ...
'', a genus of
Amphipoda
Amphipoda () is an order (biology), order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods () range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 10,700 amphip ...
, and so
Jules de Guerne and
Jules Richard provided it with the
replacement name
In biological nomenclature, a ''nomen novum'' (Latin for "new name"), replacement name (or new replacement name, new substitute name, substitute name) is a replacement scientific name that is created when technical, nomenclatural reasons have mad ...
''Boeckella'' in 1889.
References
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Centropagidae
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