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.

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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.

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.

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.

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)ː 663-673. JSTOR Reference page.

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.

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)ː 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.