Boeckella brevicaudata (Brady, 1875)

Pugh, P. J. A., Dartnall, H. J. G. & McInnes, S. J., 2002, The non-marine Crustacea of Antarctica and the Islands of the Southern Ocean: biodiversity and biogeography, Journal of Natural History 36 (9), pp. 1047-1103 : 1057

Boeckella brevicaudata (Brady, 1875)

Centropages brevicaudatus Brady, 1875 ; Centropages brevicaudatus Brady, 1875 ; Paraboeckella brevicaudata (Brady) in Mrázek (1901); Pseudoboeckella brevicaudata (Mrázek) in Ekman

(1905); Boeckella vexillifera Ekman, 1905 ; Pseudoboeckella brevicaudata (Mrázek) var.

vexillifera Ekman, 1905 in Scott (1914); 5 Pseudoboeckella remotissima sic Brehm (1953) ;

Dartnall (1995b); 5 Guernea antarctica G. M. Thompson, 1895 §; Guernella antarctica

Mrázek, 1904 in Chilton (1909) §; Deguernea antarctica (G. M. Thompson, 1895) in

Chilton (1909) §.

Descriptions: Brady (1875, 1879); Ekman (1905); Scott (1914); Brady (1918a); Evans (1970); Gay (1981a); Bayly (1992a, 1992b). Listed in: Chilton (1909); Brehm (1953, 1954); Lindberg (1953); Ringulet (1955); Lofthouse (1967); Smith and Sayers (1971); Tyler (1978); Gay (1981b, 1982); Duchêne (1989); Dartnall (1995a, 1995b).

Recorded from: Freshwater lakes and/or pools.

Locations: (Falkland Is.?), ( South Georgia?), Îles Kerguelen, Heard I., Macquari e I., [S. America, Australia].

Notes. § Deguernea (5 Gurnea) antarctica (G. M. Thompson, 1895) has not been reported since 1909 and then only as a quote from 1879 and is here proposed as a probable synonym. Also see notes for B. poppei (below) regarding possible confusion of records in Enderby Sector, Continental Antarctica.