Rank Genus | Class Maxillopoda | |
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Similar Calanoida, Gladioferens, Diaptomus, Diaptomidae, Mesocyclops | ||
Boeckella poppei
Boeckella is a genus of copepods in the family Centropagidae.
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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.
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
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