Kelleria is a genus of cyclopoid copepods in the family Kelleriidae, the sole genus in the family. There are about 19 described species in Kelleria.
The genus was first described in 1927 by Robert Gurney.Gurney, R. 1927. Report on the Crustacea. Copepoda (littoral and semiparasitic). Zoological Results of the Cambridge Expedition to the Suez Canal, 1924, no. 35. Transactions of the Zoological Society of London 22: 451-577
Species These 19 species belong to the genus Kelleria:
Kelleria andamanensis Sewell, 1949 Kelleria australiensis Bayly, 1971 Kelleria camortensis Sewell, 1949 Kelleria corioensis Arnott & McKinnon, 1981 Kelleria gradata Stock, 1967 Kelleria grandisetiger Kim I.H., 2006 Kelleria gurneyi Sewell, 1949 Kelleria indonesiana Mulyadi, 2009 Kelleria javaensis Mulyadi, 2009 Kelleria multiovigera Kim I.H., 2009 Kelleria pectinata (Scott A., 1909) Kelleria portiviva Kim I.H., 2006 Kelleria propinquus (Scott T., 1894) Kelleria purpurocincta Gurney, 1927 Kelleria reducta Gómez, 2006 Kelleria regalis Gurney, 1927 Kelleria rubimaculata Krishnaswamy, 1952 Kelleria undecidentata Kim I.H., 2006 Kelleria vaga Kim I.H., 2000
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