Boeckella palustris is a species of copepod that lives in South America. It is found in shallow pools including the highest body of water ever to have yielded a crustacean at an altitude of 5930 m (19460 ft) in the Andes. It was described independently by two scientists in 1955 using material brought back by different European expeditions to the same region.
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