Boeckella

{{short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

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| taxon = Boeckella

| image= Apareamiento de copépodos Boeckella gracilis.jpg

| image_caption = Mating of Boeckella gracilis observed in dark field microscopy.

| authority = De Guerne & Richard, 1889

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{{Genus list

|Boeckellina|Mrázek, 1901

|Boeckellopsis|Mrázek, 1901

|Karukinka |Menu-Marque, 2003

|Metaboeckella|Eckman, 1906

|Paraboeckella|Mrázek, 1901

|Pseudoboeckella|Mrázek, 1901

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Boeckella is a genus of copepods in the family Centropagidae.

Species

The genus Boeckella contains 49 species,{{cite web |url=http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=346853 |title=Boeckella De Guerne & Richard, 1889 |author=T. Chad Walter |editor=T. Chad Walter & Geoff Boxshall |work=World Copepoda database |publisher=World Register of Marine Species |accessdate=December 30, 2009}} of which five are listed as vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List – the Australian endemics B. bispinosa,{{Cite iucn | author = J. W. Reid | title = Boeckella bispinosa | volume = 1996 | page = e.T2840A9487520 | date = 1996 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T2840A9487520.en }} B. geniculata,{{Cite iucn | author = J. W. Reid | title = Boeckella geniculata | volume = 1996 | page = e.T2842A9487587 | date = 1996 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T2842A9487587.en }} B. nyoraensis,{{Cite iucn | author = J. W. Reid | title = Boeckella nyoraensis | volume = 1996 | page = e.T2839A9487472 | date = 1996 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T2839A9487472.en }} B. shieli,{{Cite iucn | author = J. W. Reid | title = Boeckella shieli | volume = 1996 | page = e.T2843A9487618 | date = 1996 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T2843A9487618.en }} and B. calcaris from Bolivia and Peru.{{Cite iucn | author = J. W. Reid | title = Boeckella calcaris | volume = 1996 | page = e.T2841A9487551 | date = 1996 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T2841A9487551.en }}

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Taxonomic history

The genus was originally described by G. M. Thomson as "Boeckia",{{cite journal |author=V. H. Jolly |year=1956 |title=A review of the copepod genus Boeckella in New Zealand |journal=Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=855–865 |url=http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_84/rsnz_84_04_008330.pdf |format=PDF}} in honour of Jonas Axel Boeck (1833–1873).{{cite journal |author=George M. Thomson |author-link=George M. Thomson |year=1882 |title=On the New Zealand Copepoda |journal=Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New Zealand |volume=15 |pages=93–116 |url=http://rsnz.natlib.govt.nz/volume/rsnz_15/rsnz_15_00_001750.html}} 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.

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Category:Centropagidae

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