Christopher B. Boyko

Christopher B. Boyko, U.S. invertebrate zoologist.

• Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024 USA.

Taxon names authored

(List may be incomplete)

• 20 taxon names authored by Christopher B. Boyko

Publications

(List may be incomplete)

1994

• Boyko, C. 1994. Catalog of Recent type specimens in the Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History. 1, Micro-invertebrates (Phyla Sarcomastigophora, Gnathostomula, Gastrotricha, Rotifera, and Tardigrada). American Museum Novitates 3106: 1–44. hdl: 2246/4939 . Reference page. 

1996

• Boyko, C. 1996. Catalog of Recent type specimens in the Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History. 3, "Parasitica" (phyla Platyhleminthes, Rhombozoa, and Pentastomida) and Gastrotricha (supplement). American Museum Novitates 3174: 1–59. hdl: 2246/3622 . Reference page. 
• Boyko, C.B. & Sage, W.E. 1996. Catalog of Recent type specimens in the Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History. 2, Mollusca, part 1 (Classes Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Gastropoda (subclass Opisthobranchia), Bivalvia, and Scaphopoda). American Museum Novitates 3170: 1–50. hdl: 2246/3624 . Reference page. 

1997

• Boyko, C.B. 1997. Catalog of Recent Type Specimens in the Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History. IV. Crustacea: Isopoda. American Museum novitates, Number 3217, 39 p. hdl: 2246/3619 . Reference page. 

2000

• Boyko, C.B. & Harvey, A.W. 2000. A Review of the Family Lernaeodiscidae (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala). I. The Genus Lernaeodiscus Müller, 1862: New Synonymy, Hosts, Range Extensions, and the Description of a New Species. Journal of Crustacean Biology 20(4): 663-673. JSTOR Reference page. 

2001

• Boyko, C.B. & Cordeiro, J.R. 2001. Catalog of recent type specimens in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History. V. Mollusca, Part 2 (Class Gastropoda [Exclusive of Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata], with supplements to Gastropoda [Opisthobranchia], and Bivalvia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 262: 1–170. hdl: 2246/350 . Reference page. 

2007

• Faria, F.C.R., Boyko, C.B. & Mantelatto, F.L. 2007. Parasitization of the white spotwrist hermit crab, Pagurus criniticornis (Dana, 1852) (Decapoda, Anomura), by the rhizocephalan barnacle Peltogasterella socialis (Müller, 1863) (Cirripedia, Rhizocephala) from southeastern Brazil. Animal Biology 57(3): 315–327. DOI: 10.1163/157075607781753047 Reference page. 
• Román-Contreras, R. & Boyko, C.B. 2007. A new genus and species of bopyrid isopod infesting the crab Munidopsis depressa (Anomura: Galatheidae) from the Gulf of California, with notes on its ecology. Journal of Crustacean Biology 27(2): 370–379. DOI: 10.1651/S-2716.1 Reference page. 

2013

• Boyko, C.B., Moss, J., Williams, J.D. & Shields, J.D. 2013. A molecular phylogeny of Bopyroidea and Cryptoniscoidea (Crustacea: Isopoda). Systematics and Biodiversity 11(4): 495–506. DOI: 10.1080/14772000.2013.865679, ResearchGate Reference page. 

2016

• Ng, P.K.L. & Boyko, C.B. 2016. A new species of Achaeus Leach, 1817 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Majoidea: Inachidae) from Easter Island. Nauplius 24: e2016019. DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2016019 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2017

• Boyko, C.B., Mendoza, J.C.E. & Castro, P. 2017. New records of coral-associated crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura: Carpilioidea, Trapezoidea) from Easter Island. Zootaxa 4216(5): 487–494. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4216.5.5. Reference page. 
• Boyko, C.B., Williams, J.D. & Shields, J.D. 2017. Parasites (Isopoda: Epicaridea and Nematoda) from ghost and mud shrimp (Decapoda: Axiidea and Gebiidea) with descriptions of a new genus and a new species of bopyrid isopod and clarification of Pseudione Kossmann, 1881. Zootaxa 4365(3): 251–301. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4365.3.1. Reference page. 
• Ng, P.K.L. & Boyko, C.B. 2017. New species and records of crabs of the families Dromiidae, Dynomenidae, Homolidae, Aethridae, Parthenopidae, Majidae, and Epialtidae (Crustacea: Decapoda: Brachyura) from Easter Island, with a review of the majid genus Schizophroida Sakai, 19331. Pacific Science 71(2): 197-227. DOI: 10.2984/71.2.8 ResearchGate Reference page. 

2018

• Boyko, C.B. & van der Meij, S.E.T. 2018. A trifecta of Swiftian symbioses: stony corals, gall crabs and their parasites (Scleractinia; Brachyura: Cryptochiridae; Isopoda: Epicaridea and Cirripedia: Rhizocephala). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 184(2): 304-329. DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlx115 pdf Reference page. 
• Brito, A., Cardoso, I.A. & Boyko, C.B. 2018. A new species of Pseudione Kossmann, 1881 (Crustacea, Isopoda, Bopyridae) parasitizing the squat lobster Munida microphthalma A. Milne-Edwards, 1880 in the Southwestern Atlantic. Zootaxa 4377(3): 444–450. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.3.7 Reference page. 

2019

• Ahyong, S.T. & Boyko, C. 2019. Rhopalione kali sp. nov., first known epicaridean parasite on the Malaysian pinnotherid crab, Serenotheres besutensis (Serène, 1967). Zootaxa 4590(2): 283–288. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4590.2.5 Reference page. 
• An, J-M., Wang, M-X., Boyko, C.B. & Williams, J.D. 2019. New hosts and localities for species of Cancricepon Giard & Bonnier, 1887 (Isopoda: Epicaridea: Bopyridae) with description of two new species and comments on the relationship between Cancricepon and Trapezicepon Bonnier, 1900. Zootaxa 4559(1): 136–150. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4559.1.5 Reference page. 

2020

• Boyko, C.B. & Williams, J.D. 2020. A new species of Parthenopea Kossmann, 1874 (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala: Parthenopeidae) from Florida: the first record of a rhizocephalan from a lobster (Decapoda: Nephropoidea). Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 133(1): 1-6. DOI: 10.2988/19-00010 Reference page. 
• Kumar, J.S.Y., Boyko, C.B., Arun, G., Geetha, S. & Raghunathan, C. 2020. A new distribution record of Albunea groeningi (Crustacea: Anomura: Decapoda: Albuneidae) from the Digha Coast, West Bengal, India. Zootaxa 4766(4): 588–592. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4766.4.5 Reference page. 
• McDermott, J.J., Williams, J.D., Boyko, C.B. 2020 (Online 2019). A new genus and species of parasitic isopod (Bopyroidea: Entoniscidae) infesting pinnotherid crabs (Brachyura: Pinnotheridae) on the Atlantic coast of the USA, with notes on the life cycle of entoniscids. Journal of Crustacean Biology 40(1): 97–114. DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruz088 . Reference page. 
• Oanh, L.T.K. & Boyko, C.B. 2020. Cancrion khanhensis sp. nov. (Crustacea: Isopoda: Entoniscidae) infesting Monomia haanii (Stimpson, 1858) (Crustacea: Brachyura: Portunidae) from Nha Trang Bay, Khanh Hoa, Vietnam, with remarks on larval stages of entoniscids and description of a new family, genus and two new species of hyperparasites infesting entoniscids. Zootaxa 4894(3): 366–386. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4894.3.4 Reference page. 

2021

• Williams, J.D. & Boyko, C.B. 2021. Out on a limb: novel morphology and position on appendages of two new genera and three new species of ectoparasitic isopods (Epicaridea: Dajidae) infesting isopod and decapod hosts. Zoosystema. 43(4): 79–100. DOI: 10.5252/zoosystema2021v43a4. Reference page. 
• Boyko, C.B. & Williams, J.D. 2021. A review of the genus Zonophryxus Richardson, 1903 (Crustacea: Isopoda:Dajidae) with recognition of Colypurus agassizi Richardson, 1905(Crustacea: Isopoda: Colypuridae) as a synonym of Zonophryxus similis Searle, 1914 and the requisite sinking of Colypuridae. Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington. 134(1): 243–264. DOI: 10.2988/0006-324X-134.1.243 . Reference page. 

2023

• Boyko, C.B. 2023. Reappraisal of the status of two recently described western Atlantic species of sand crabs (Anomura: Albuneidae). Nauplius. 31: e2023021. DOI: 10.1590/2358-2936e2023021 . Reference page. 
• Boyko, C.B. & Williams, J.D. 2023. Nomenclatural and taxonomic changes in parasitic isopods (Isopoda: Epicaridea), including two new families and note on the questionable association between monogeneans and bopyrids. Zootaxa 5258(3): 251–269. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5258.3.1 Reference page. 
• DeTorre, M., Williams, J.D. & Boyko, C.B. 2023. A review of the endoparasitic isopods (Epicaridea: Entoniscidae) from hermit crabs, including description of the new subfamily Diogenioninae and a new species of Paguritherium Reinhard, 1945 from the Philippines. Zootaxa 5249(1): 12–40. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5249.1.2 Reference page. 

2024

• De Grave, S. & Boyko, C.B. 2024. The carcinological oeuvre of Charles Spence Bate (1819—1889): Checklist of species and genera, dates of publication, and a list of publications (Crustacea: Amphipoda, Cirripedia, Cumacea, Decapoda, Tanaidacea). Journal of Crustacean Biology 44(2): ruae010. DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruae010 pdf Reference page. 

2026

• Flores, P.C.R., Boyko, C.B. & Williams, J.D. 2026. Phylogeny of Rhizocephala (Cirripedia) based on the discovery of a new species of Thylacoplethus Coutiere, 1902 (Cirripedia: Rhizocephala) parasitizing squat lobsters (Decapoda: Anomura: Munidopsidae). Journal of Crustacean Biology 46(2): ruag014. DOI: 10.1093/jcbiol/ruag014 Reference page.