Copepoda taxon details

Boeckella Lilljeborg, in Guerne & Richard, 1889

346853 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:346853)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Arthropoda
  4. Crustacea
  5. Multicrustacea
  6. Copepoda
  7. Neocopepoda
  8. Gymnoplea
  9. Calanoida
  10. Centropagidae
  11. Boeckella
accepted
Genus
Boeckella brasiliensis (Lubbock, 1855) accepted as Pseudoboeckella brasiliensis (Lubbock, 1854) (type by original designation)
Centropagidae Giesbrecht, 1893
Boeckellina Mrázek, 1901 · unaccepted (synonym)
Boeckellopsis Mrázek, 1901 · unaccepted (synonym)
Metaboeckella Ekman, 1905 · unaccepted (synonym)
Paraboeckella Mrázek, 1901 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pseudoboeckella Mrázek, 1901 · unaccepted (synonym)

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  1. Species Boeckella ambigua Percival, 1937
  2. Species Boeckella antiqua Menu-Marque & Balseiro, 2000
  3. Species Boeckella asymmetrica Searle, 1914
  4. Species Boeckella bergi Richard, 1897
    1. Subspecies Boeckella bergi conesae Brehm, 1954 accepted as Boeckella bergi Richard, 1897
    2. Subspecies Boeckella bergi cornuta Brehm, 1937 accepted as Boeckella bergi Richard, 1897
    3. Subspecies Boeckella bergi serrifera Brehm, 1937 accepted as Boeckella bergi Richard, 1897
  5. Species Boeckella bispinosa Bayly, 1967
  6. Species Boeckella brevicaudata (Brady, 1875)
  7. Species Boeckella calcaris (Harding, 1955)
  8. Species Boeckella coronaria Henry, 1922
  9. Species Boeckella delicata Percival, 1937
  10. Species Boeckella denticornis Brehm, 1950
  11. Species Boeckella diamantina Menu-Marque & Zúñiga, 1994
  12. Species Boeckella dilatata Sars G.O., 1904
  13. Species Boeckella erubescens (Brehm, 1935)
  14. Species Boeckella fluvialis Henry, 1922
  15. Species Boeckella geniculata Bayly, 1964
  16. Species Boeckella gibbosa (Brehm, 1935)
  17. Species Boeckella gracilipes Daday, 1901
  18. Species Boeckella gracilis (Daday, 1902)
  19. Species Boeckella hamata Brehm, 1928
  20. Species Boeckella lacuna Fairbridge, 1945
  21. Species Boeckella longicauda Daday, 1901
  22. Species Boeckella longisetosa Smith G.W., 1909
  23. Species Boeckella major Searle, 1938
  24. Species Boeckella meteoris Kiefer, 1928
    1. Subspecies Boeckella meteoris dentifera Brehm, 1935 accepted as Boeckella meteoris Kiefer, 1928
  25. Species Boeckella michaelseni (Mrázek, 1901)
  26. Species Boeckella minuta Sars G.O., 1896
  27. Species Boeckella montana Bayly, 1964
  28. Species Boeckella nyoraensis Searle, 1912
  29. Species Boeckella occidentalis Marsh, 1906
  30. Species Boeckella opaqua Fairbridge, 1945
  31. Species Boeckella palustris (Harding, 1955)
  32. Species Boeckella pilkililli Quinlan & Bayly, 2017
  33. Species Boeckella poopoensis Marsh, 1906
  34. Species Boeckella poppei (Mrázek, 1901)
  35. Species Boeckella propinqua Sars G.O., 1904
    1. Subspecies Boeckella propinqua longisetosa Smith G., 1909 accepted as Boeckella longisetosa Smith G.W., 1909
  36. Species Boeckella pseudochelae Searle, 1912
  37. Species Boeckella robusta Sars G.O., 1896
    1. Subspecies Boeckella robusta maxima Bayly, 1964
  38. Species Boeckella rubra Smith G.W., 1909
  39. Species Boeckella saycei Sars G.O., 1908
  40. Species Boeckella shieli Bayly, 1985
  41. Species Boeckella sibleti Royaux, Charpin & Rabet, 2024
  42. Species Boeckella silvestrii Daday, 1901
  43. Species Boeckella spinogibba Defaye, 1998
  44. Species Boeckella symmetrica Sars G.O., 1908
  45. Species Boeckella tanea Chapman, 1973
  46. Species Boeckella timmsi Bayly, 1998
  47. Species Boeckella titicacae Harding, 1955
  48. Species Boeckella triarticulata (Thomson G.M., 1883)
  49. Species Boeckella vallentini (Scott T., 1914)
  50. Species Boeckella klutei (Brehm, 1926) (uncertain > nomen dubium, Bayly 1992:33 says klutei is a nomen dubium)
  51. Species Boeckella longicornis Nicolet, 1849 (uncertain > nomen dubium)
  52. Species Boeckella thomseni Brehm, 1937 (uncertain > nomen dubium, BAYLY 1992:60, poorly described)
  53. Species Boeckella anderssonorum (Ekman, 1905) accepted as Boeckella michaelseni (Mrázek, 1901)
  54. Species Boeckella bilobata Brehm, 1958 accepted as Boeckella gracilis (Daday, 1902)
  55. Species Boeckella birabeni Brehm, 1954 accepted as Boeckella poopoensis Marsh, 1906
  56. Species Boeckella brasiliensis (Lubbock, 1855) accepted as Pseudoboeckella brasiliensis (Lubbock, 1854)
  57. Species Boeckella camjatae Harding, 1955 accepted as Boeckella gracilis (Daday, 1902)
  58. Species Boeckella dentifera Brehm, 1935 accepted as Boeckella meteoris Kiefer, 1928
  59. Species Boeckella dubia Daday, 1901 accepted as Boeckella poppei (Mrázek, 1901)
  60. Species Boeckella entzii Daday, 1901 accepted as Boeckella poppei (Mrázek, 1901)
  61. Species Boeckella fluviatilis Henry, 1922 accepted as Boeckella fluvialis Henry, 1922
  62. Species Boeckella godeti (Delachaux, 1928) accepted as Boeckella occidentalis Marsh, 1906
  63. Species Boeckella insignis Smith G.W., 1909 accepted as Boeckella symmetrica Sars G.O., 1908 (synonym)
  64. Species Boeckella kinzeli Löffler, 1955 accepted as Neoboeckella kinzeli (Löffler, 1955)
  65. Species Boeckella oblonga Sars G.O., 1908 accepted as Boeckella triarticulata (Thomson G.M., 1883)
  66. Species Boeckella orientalis Sars G.O., 1903 accepted as Boeckella triarticulata (Thomson G.M., 1883)
  67. Species Boeckella pellucida Fairbridge, 1945 accepted as Boeckella triarticulata (Thomson G.M., 1883)
  68. Species Boeckella peruviensis (Löffler, 1955) accepted as Boeckella palustris (Harding, 1955)
  69. Species Boeckella pygmaea Daday, 1901 accepted as Boeckella michaelseni (Mrázek, 1901)
  70. Species Boeckella rahmi Brehm, 1935 accepted as Boeckella poopoensis Marsh, 1906
  71. Species Boeckella remotissima (Brehm, 1953) accepted as Boeckella brevicaudata (Brady, 1875)
  72. Species Boeckella schwabei Brehm, 1937 accepted as Boeckella gracilis (Daday, 1902)
  73. Species Boeckella searli (Sars G.O., 1912) accepted as Hemiboeckella searli Sars G.O., 1912
  74. Species Boeckella setosa Daday, 1901 accepted as Boeckella brasiliensis (Lubbock, 1855) accepted as Pseudoboeckella brasiliensis (Lubbock, 1854)
  75. Species Boeckella tenera Sars G.O., 1912 accepted as Boeckella symmetrica Sars G.O., 1908 (synonym)
  76. Species Boeckella vexillifera Ekman, 1905 accepted as Boeckella brevicaudata (Brady, 1875)
  77. Species Boeckella volucris (Kiefer, 1944) accepted as Boeckella vallentini (Scott T., 1914)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Guerne, J. de & J. Richard. (1889). Révision des Calanides d'eau douce. [Revision of freshwater Calanidae.]. <em>Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 2:1-129 , figs. 1-60, pls. 1-4. [details] OpenAccess publication
Walter, T.C.; Boxshall, G. (2025). World of Copepods Database. Boeckella Lilljeborg, in Guerne & Richard, 1889. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/copepoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=346853 on 2026-07-17
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2008-07-15 11:49:29Z
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Walter, T. Chad
2010-06-27 19:16:41Z
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Walter, T. Chad
2015-03-16 14:02:41Z
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Walter, T. Chad
2021-03-22 11:54:34Z
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Walter, T. Chad
2025-02-11 18:59:11Z
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Walter, T. Chad

original description Guerne, J. de & J. Richard. (1889). Révision des Calanides d'eau douce. [Revision of freshwater Calanidae.]. <em>Mémoires de la Société Zoologique de France.</em> 2:1-129 , figs. 1-60, pls. 1-4. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Boeckellina Mrázek, 1901) Mrázek, A. (1901). Süsswasser-Copepoden. [Freshwater copepods.]. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93, Hamburg Natural History Museum.</em> vol 3, 2(22), Arthropoden):1-29, pls. 1-4. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Boeckellopsis Mrázek, 1901) Mrázek, A. (1901). Süsswasser-Copepoden. [Freshwater copepods.]. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93, Hamburg Natural History Museum.</em> vol 3, 2(22), Arthropoden):1-29, pls. 1-4. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Karukinka Menu-Marque, 2003) Menu-Marque, S.A. (2003). Karukinka fueguina n. gen., n. sp. (Copepoda, Calanoida, Centropagidae) from Tierra del Fuego. Crustaceana 75(10):1229-1240. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Metaboeckella Ekman, 1905) Ekman, S. (1905). Die Systematik und Synonymik der Copepodengattung Boeckella und verwandter Gattungen. [The systematics and synonymy of the copepod genus Boeckella and related genera.]. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 29(19):593-604, figs. 1-2. (29-xii-1905). [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Paraboeckella Mrázek, 1901) Mrázek, A. (1901). Süsswasser-Copepoden. [Freshwater copepods.]. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93, Hamburg Natural History Museum.</em> vol 3, 2(22), Arthropoden):1-29, pls. 1-4. [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Pseudoboeckella Mrázek, 1901) Mrázek, A. (1901). Süsswasser-Copepoden. [Freshwater copepods.]. <em>Ergebnisse der Hamburger Magalhaensischen Sammelreise 1892/93, Hamburg Natural History Museum.</em> vol 3, 2(22), Arthropoden):1-29, pls. 1-4. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Adamowicz, S.J., S. Menu-Marque, P.D.N. Hebert & A. Purvis. (2007). Molecular systematics and patterns of morphological evolution in the Centropagidae (Copepoda: Calanoida) of Argentina. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 90(2):279-292., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00723.x [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Jolly, V.H. (1957). A review of the copepod genus Boeckella in New Zealand. Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand 84(4):855-865, figs. 1-3. (viii-1957) [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Menu-Marque, S.A. (2003). Las especies del género Boeckella (Copepoda, Calanoida, Centropagidae) de la República Argentina y taxa afines. [Species of the genus Boeckella (Copepoda, Calanoida, Centropagidae) from the Argentine Republic and related taxa.]. <em>Tesis de Doctorado, Facultad de Ciencias Exactas y Naturales, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.</em> 213 pp. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Menu-Marque, S.A. & C. Locascio de Mitrovich. (1998). Distribución de las especies del género Boeckella (Copepoda: Calanoida: Centropagidae) en la Argentina. [Distribution of the species of the genus Boeckella (Copepoda: Calanoida: Centropagidae) in Argentina.]. <em>Physis, Buenos Aires, Sección B, Las Aguas Continentales y sus Organismos.</em> 56(130-131):1-10. (xii.1998). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Maly, E.J., S.A. Halse & M.P. Maly. (1997). Distribution and incidence patterns of Boeckella, Calamoecia, and Hemiboeckella (Copepoda: Calanoida) in Western Australia. <em>Marine and Freshwater Research.</em> 48(7):615-621., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/MF97015 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Pilati, A. & J.J. Martínez. (2003). Relación longitud-peso de siete especies de Boeckella (Copepoda: Calanoida) de la República Argentina. [Length-weight relationship of seven species of Boeckella (Copepoda: Calanoida) from the Argentine Republic.]. <em>Neotrópica, La Plata.</em> 49:55-61. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Vidal, I.L. (1968). An addition to the genus Boeckella (Copepoda) in New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 2(4):684-687, fig. 1. (xii-1968), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1968.9515265 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Jamieson, C.D. (1985). On the distribution of three Boeckella species. <em>Ph.D. Thesis, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.</em> 244 pp. [details] 

additional source Santos-Silva, E.N. (2008). Calanoid of the families Diaptomidae, Pseudodiaptomidae, and Centropagidae from Brasil. <em>Revista de Biologia Geral e Experimental.</em> 8(1):3-67. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Scheihing, R., L. Cardenas, R.F. Nespolo, P. Krall, K. Walz, S. Kohshima & P. Labarca. (2010). Morphological and molecular analysis of centropagids from the high Andean plateau (Copepoda: Calanoidea). Hydrobiologia 637:45-52. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Sars, G.O. (1901). Contributions to the knowledge of the freshwater Entomostraca of South America, as shown by artificial hatching from dried material. Part II. Copepoda-Ostracoda. <em>Archiv for Mathematik og Naturvidenskab.</em> 24(1):1-52. pls. 1-8. [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source Maturana, C.S., S. Rosenfeld, J. Naretto, P. Convey & E. Poulin. (2019). Distribution of the genus Boeckella (Crustacea, Copepoda, Calanoida, Centropagidae) at high latitudes in South America and the main Antarctic biogeographic regions. Zookeys, 8:541-15., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.854.29614 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Maturana, C.S., S. Rosenfeld, E.M. Biersma, N.I. Segovia, C.A. González-Wevar, A. Díaz, J. Naretto, I.C.. Duggan, I.D. Hogg, E. Poulin, P. Convey & J.A. Jackson. (2021). Historical biogeography of the Gondwanan freshwater genus Boeckella (Crustacea): Timing and modes of speciation in the Southern Hemisphere. <em>Diversity and Distributions.</em> 27(1):1-14. Sep 2021., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13405 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Royaux, C., N. Charpin, N. Mary, F. Busson, C. Bonillo & N. Rabet. (2025). Remarkable genetic and specific diversification in Boeckella (Copepoda: Calanoida) from New Caledonia suggests strong micro-endemism. <em>Biological Journal Of The Linnean Society.</em> 146(1):1-15. Sep 2025 blaf054., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/biolinnean/blaf054 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

identification resource Fairbridge, W.S. (1945). West Australian fresh-water calanoids (Copepoda). I. Three new species of Boeckella, with an account of the developmental stages of B. opaqua n. sp. and a key to the genus. <em>Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Western Australia.</em> 29:25-65, pls. 1-10. (1-iii-1945). [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
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3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Boeckella Document hosted within Copepoda 
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Boeckellina Document hosted within Copepoda (from synonym Boeckellina Mrázek, 1901)
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Boeckellopsis Document hosted within Copepoda (from synonym Boeckellopsis Mrázek, 1901)
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Metaboeckella Document hosted within Copepoda (from synonym Metaboeckella Ekman, 1905)
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Paraboeckella Document hosted within Copepoda (from synonym Paraboeckella Mrázek, 1901)
3x5 C.B. Wilson Taxonomic Card - Pseudoboeckella Document hosted within Copepoda (from synonym Pseudoboeckella Mrázek, 1901)
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