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Issue: Vol. 1208 No. 1: 22 May. 2006
Type: Articles
Published: 2006-05-22
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1208.1.3
Page range: 37–56
Abstract views: 51
PDF downloaded: 2

Two new genera and two new species of the subterranean family Bogidiellidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda) from groundwaters in northern Oman, with notes on the geographic distribution of the family

Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e dell’Uomo, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, viale dell’Università 32, I-00185 Roma, Italy
Department of Biological Sciences, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 23529, USA
Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona, Lungadige Porta Vittoria 9, I-37129 Verona, Italy
Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1092 AD Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Crustacea biogeography Bogidiellidae Oman stygomorphic subterranean waters

Abstract

The bogidiellid amphipod crustaceans Stockigi diella aequim ana new genus and species and Om angidiella p arvid actyl a new genus and species are described from subterranean groundwater habitats in the Sultanate of Oman on the Arabian Peninsula. Stockigidiell a is easily distinguished by a row of long, deeply bifid setae on pereopods 5 and 6, whereas Omangidiell a is distinguished by a greatly reduced propodus of gnathopod 2 and elongate oostegites; it also possesses a third coxal lobe on the maxilliped, a unique character noted only in three other bogidiellid genera from northern and eastern Africa. At present, the family Bogidiellidae contains 35 genera and 105 species but a significant number of provisionally recognized new species and possibly several new genera await description. The geographic distribution of the family Bogidiellidae is nearly circumglobal, but species tend to be clustered in discontinuous regions. A number of important questions regarding the origin and biogeographic history of the family remains unanswered.

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