@article {248, title = {Bogidiella chappuisi Ruffo nouvel Amphipode phreatobie de la faune francaise}, journal = {Archives de zoologie exp{\'e}rimentale et g{\'e}n{\'e}rale}, volume = {91}, year = {1954}, pages = {152}, chapter = {145}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {247, title = {Anfipodi di acque interstiziali raccolti dal Dr. C. Delamare Deboutteville in Francia, Spagna e Algeria}, journal = {Vie et milieu}, volume = {4}, year = {1953}, pages = {681}, chapter = {669}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {245, title = {Amphipodes terrestres et des eaux continentales de Madagascar, des Comores et la Reunion (Etudes sur les Crustac{\'e}s Amphipodes. - 50)}, journal = {M{\'e}moires de l{\textquoteright}institut scientifique de Madagascar. Serie A.}, volume = {12}, year = {1958}, pages = {66}, chapter = {35}, abstract = {

not available

}, keywords = {R{\'e}union}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {243, title = {Nuovi Anfipodi mesopsammici delle Isole Andamane (Crust. Amphipoda)}, journal = {Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia Naturale di Verona}, volume = {10}, year = {1985}, pages = {510}, chapter = {485}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {223, title = {Prime osservazioni sulla fauna freatica ed interstiziale nella Pianura Padana}, journal = {Bollettino di zoologia}, volume = {19}, year = {1952}, pages = {128}, chapter = {123}, abstract = {

A questa specie debbono essere infatti riferiti i pochi esemplari da me raccolti in pozzi di S. Martino B.A. presso Verona e citati, per insufficienza di materiale, come Bogidiella sp.

Bogidiella sp. Ruffo, 1952 (=B. albertimagni)\ 

}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {145, title = {Contribution to the knowledge of the Bogidiella of Greece (Crustacea Amphipoda Gammaridae)}, journal = {Natura - Rivista di Scienze Naturali, Milano}, volume = {70}, year = {1979}, pages = {295-309}, abstract = {

The authors report on three Bogidiellid-species (Crustacea Amphipoda, Gammaridae) lately collected in the subterranean Greek freshwaters. They are: Bogidiella cerberus n. sp., B. longiflagellum S. Karaman and B. skopljensis (S. Karaman).
Bogidiella cerberus n. sp. is the first European and Mediterranean Bogidiellid living in caves; it was collected in the brackish waters of Alepotrypa\’s cave, in the small terminal lake (Peloponnesian peninsula of Manni). B. longiflagellum (incompletely described by S. Karaman on few and impaired samples from South Yugoslavia) is carefully redescribed on a large material collected in many Greek countries. B. skopljensis (S. Kararamn ) at least (typ. loc.: Macedonia) is for the first time pointed out for the Greece (artesianwells, Euboea island).

}, keywords = {Greece}, author = {Bou, Claude and Ruffo, Sandro} } @inbook {134, title = {Genus Bogidiella Hertzog}, booktitle = {The Amphipoda of the Mediterranean}, series = {Mémoires de l{\textquoteright}Institut océanographique, Fondation Albert Ier, Prince de Monaco}, volume = {1}, number = {13}, year = {1982}, pages = {252-258}, publisher = {Musée Océanographique}, organization = {Musée Océanographique}, address = {Monaco}, abstract = {

Data on\ Bogidiella chappuisi Ruffo, 1952, Bogidiella dalmatina S. Karaman, 1953 and\ Bogidiella italica G. Karaman, 1979.

}, keywords = {Mediterranean}, author = {Karaman, Gordan S.}, editor = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {83, title = {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}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {1208}, year = {2006}, pages = {37-56}, abstract = {

The bogidiellid amphipod crustaceans Stockigidiella aequimana new genus and species and Omangidiella parvidactyla new genus and species are described from subterranean groundwater habitats in the Sultanate of Oman on the Arabian Peninsula. Stockigidiella is easily distinguished by a row of long, deeply bifid setae on pereopods 5 and 6, whereas Omangidiella 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.

}, keywords = {Arabian peninsula, Oman}, author = {Iannilli, Valentina and Holsinger, John R. and Ruffo, Sandro and Vonk, Ronald} } @article {79, title = {Una nuova Bogidiella di Creta (Amphipoda, Gammaridae)}, journal = {Bollettino del Museo civico di Storia Naturale di Verona}, volume = {3}, year = {1976}, pages = {147-155}, abstract = {

Bogidiella minotaurus n. sp. aus dem Kustengrundwasser von Hierapetra (Kreta) wird beschrieben. Die neue Art ist eng verwandt mit B. chappuisi und B. dalmatina, von denen sie sich vor allem in der apikalen Spination der 1. und 2. Uropoden, in jener marginalen und apikalen der 3. Uropoden sowie in der distalen Spination ihres ausserdem gestreckteren Telsons unterscheidet. Einige Daten zur Okologie und Oviposition der Spezies sind hinzugefugt.

}, keywords = {Crete, Greece}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro and Schiecke, Ulrich} } @article {78, title = {Studi sui Crostacei Anfipodi 57. Una nuova specie di Bogidiella (Crust. Amphipoda) della depressione del Mar Morto}, journal = {Bulletin of the Research Council of Israel, sec. B, Zoology}, volume = {11}, year = {1963}, pages = {188-195}, abstract = {

A new species of subterranean Amphipoda, Bogidiella hebraea n.sp. is described from the spring of Ein Hakikar, south of the Dead Sea. The twelve species of the genus are reviewed and classified according to morphological and ecological criteria. The new species is considered to be closely related to Bogidiella chappuisi Ruffo, a species known from the interstitial waters of the West Mediterranean shores.

}, keywords = {Israel}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {76, title = {Deux nouveaux amphipodes souterrains de France. Salentinella angelieri n. sp. et Bogidiella chappuisi n. sp.}, journal = {Comptes rendus des seances de l{\textquoteright}Academie des Sciences, Paris}, volume = {234}, year = {1952}, pages = {1636-1638}, abstract = {

Les recherches sur la faune interstitielle phreatique ont ete a l\’origine d\’un certain nombre de decouvertes. Dans cette Note nous decrivons deux especes nouvelles d\’Amphipodes particulierement interessantes tant du point de vue taxonomique que du point de vue biogeographique.

}, keywords = {France}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro and Delamare-Deboutteville, Claude} } @article {70, title = {Studies on Crustacea Amphipoda 122. New stygobiont amphipods (Crustacea Amphipoda) from the Philippine Islands}, journal = {Tropical Zoology}, volume = {7}, year = {1994}, pages = {355-366}, abstract = {

The author has studied the amphipods collected in the Philippines during a research campaign concerning groundwater fauna.
The new mesopsammic genus Cottarellia, found on Sabang beach (eastern Mindoro), is described. This genus, represented by one exceptionally small (1.2 mm) blind species (Cottarellia minima), is most closely related to Homellia Walker 1904 and Metaceradocus Chevreux 1925.
Two other species were also found during this campaign: Bollegidia sootai (Coineau \& Rao 1972), hitherto known only in the Andaman Islands and Malaysia, and a species of Bogidiella Hertzog 1933 which is probably new but could not be described because of the poor state of preservation of the two specimens examined.
In the phreatic fresh water of Palawan Island a new species of Bogidiella, B. daccordii, was found; it has been provisionally placed in the subgenus Medigidiella Stock 1981. This species is most closely related to Bogidiella sarawacensis Stock 1988.

}, keywords = {Philippine Islands}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {46, title = {Secondo contributo alia conoscenza del genere Bogidiella in Messico e Guatemala (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae). Subterranean fauna of Mexico, part 3}, journal = {Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei}, volume = {171}, year = {1977}, pages = {124-172}, abstract = {

Five new species of the genus Bogidiella Hertzog (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae) are described from subterranean waters of Mexico and Guatemala. They have been collected during the biospeleological researches in southern Mexico and Guatemala (1973, 1975) promoted and financed by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei.
B. orchestipes n. sp. (Mexico, Chiapas, well at S. Cristobal de las Casas) is a medium sized (3-4 mm) phreatic species, with lenticular organs on the pereopods III-VI, related to B. holsingeri Ruffo and Vigna, 1973, in the shape of the gnathopods (sinuate palmar edge and a single palmar spine), pleopods, telson and mouth appendages (maxilla I with pluridentate spines on the outer lobe, maxilla II with elongated lobes, maxillipeds with second article of the palpus broadened), but easily distinguishable for the elongated body, with mesosomites longer than their height, coxal plates distanced, the posterior edge of the basis of gnathopods with 3 long setae, the carpus of the pereopod VII strongly dilated, the uropod I differentiated in the male, with 2 rasp-like spines on the outer ramus.
B. pasquinii n. sp. (Guatemala, Huehuetenango, S. Eulalia, Cueva de los Resadores) is a cave-dwelling species, with lenticular organs on the pereopods III-VI, very similar to B. holsingeri Ruffo and Vigna, 1973, in the shape of buccal appendages, gnathopods, pleopods and telson, but distinguishable for the smaller size (2,2-2,8 mm), the posterior edge of the basis of gnathopods with 3 long setae, the dactylus of pereopods III-IV longer than half the length of propodus, with elongated claw, and especially for the shape of the uropod I of the male, with the outer ramus small and at right angle with the inner one, provided with a very long basal spine, curved at semicircle and denticulate at the end.
B. vomeroi n. sp. (Mexico, Chiapas, Sitala, Cueva de Chanchaniptic) is a small sized (2,2-2,6 mm) cave-dwelling species, similar to B. holsingeri Ruffo and Vigna, 1973, for lenticular organs, buccal appendages, gnathopods, pleopods and telson, but with the uropod I not differentiated in the male; the gnathopods I and II have similar propodites, and only 1 long seta on the posterior edge of the basis; pereopod VII has merus and carpus dilated. We refer, uncertainly, to the last species also two small (2 mm) femal specimens found in another cave (Mexico, Chiapas, El Porvenir, Sumidero de Canada) from an isolated karst area at high altitude of southern Chiapas.
B. niphargoides n. sp. (Mexico, Oaxaca, well at Etla) is a medium sized (4 mm) phreatic species, not related to the previously known species, with mesosomites higher than their length, large coxal plates, small lenticular organs on the basis of the pereopods III-VI; maxillae I with pluridentate spines on the outer lobe; antennae I longer than half the total length; gnathopods with 3-4 long setae on the posterior edge of the basis and with large, ovoidal propodus; palmar edge with a great number of spines; pereopods slender and elongated; pleopods and uropods not differentiated in the male.
В. michaelae n. sp. (Mexico, Oaxaca, well at Etla) is another phreatic species of medium size (3 mm), not related to the previously known species; male unknown; without lenticular organs on the pereopods; maxillae I with pluridentate comb-like spines on the outer lobe; gnathopods with only 1 long seta on the posterior edge of the basis and 1 palmar spine; carpus of gnathopod II long as propodus, this one small, subrectangular, with palmar edge short and little inclinated; pereopods stout, the VII with merus, carpus and propodus dilated; uropod I with the outer ramus shorter than inner, uropod III with dilated rami; telson distally not incised.
The previously known species from Mexico, B. tabascensis Villalobos, 1961; B. sbordonii Ruffo and Vigna, 1973, and B. arganoi Ruffo and Vigna, 1973, have been found in some new localities; all these show some differences from the typical populations. B. tabascensis from Chiapas (Ocosingo, Cueva de Chital n. 2) differs from specimens of Tabasco for the shape of the differentiated spines of the pleopods I and II of the male and for the slender pleopods; B. sbordonii from Central Chiapas (S. Cristobal, Cueva de la Planta n. 3 and Altamirano, Cueva de los Chivos) differs from the typical specimens from the area near Ocozocoautla in the shape of the differentiated spines of the pleopod I of the male and in the not differentiated spine of the pleopod II; B. arganoi from the well at Etla (collected together B. niphargoides n. sp. and B. michaelae n. sp.) has some characters different from the only one type specimen from Paraje Nuevo (Veracruz, Cordoba). These specimens are described and figured. Presumably they may belong to different subspecies; at present we do not refer them to any fixed taxonomical status, for lack of knowledge in the geographical variation of these species.
Other single specimens of the genus Bogidiella from phreatic waters of wells in Oaxaca Lambityeco), Puebla (Tehuacan) and Campeche (Campeche), not suitable for complete study, lacking in appendages, are also listed.
In the last part of this work, the status and the relationships of the Central American Bogidiella are discussed; as far as our present knowledge, two groups of species could be established: the tabascensis-sbordonii-group (without lenticular organs and with sexual dimorphism in differentiated spines on pleopods of the male and the holsingeri-pasquinii-orchestipes-vomeroi-group (with lenticular organs on pereopods III-V I, palmar edge sinuate and only I palmar spine on propodus of gnathopods, and with sexual dimorphism in the uropod I of the male, however vomeroi lacks in this character). В. arganoi may be related to the last group, in sexual dimorphism in the uropod I of the male and in similar shape of mouth appendages etc.; on the contrary, B. niphargoides and B. michaelae are well isolated species among the Central American ones.

}, keywords = {Guatemala, Mexico}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro and Vigna-Taglianti, Augusto} } @article {45, title = {Studi sui Crostacei Anfipodi 53. Due nuove specie di Anfipodi delle acque sotterranee dell{\textquoteright}Afghanistan}, journal = {Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona}, volume = {6}, year = {1958}, pages = {388-403}, abstract = {

On decrit les especes Bogidiella lindbergi n. sp. et Gammarus (Sarothrogammarus) afghanus n. sp. trouvees par le dr. K. Lindberg de Lund dans la Grotte Nayak pres de Pol Ranga (Vallee du Ghourband) a l\’est de Kabul (Afghanistan) a 2240 m. s.n.m. L\’A. fait des considerations sur la systematique et sur la distribution geographique du genre Bogidiella et du sousgenre Sarothrogammarus; il donne, enfin, les tableaux dichotomiques des especes connues jusqu\’a ce jour.

}, keywords = {Afghanistan, Central Asia, identification key}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {34, title = {Bogidiella neotropica n. sp., nuovo Anfipodo dell{\textquoteright}Amazonia}, journal = {Rivista Svizzera di Idrologia}, volume = {14}, year = {1952}, pages = {129-134}, abstract = {

Ho avuto di recente in studio da Rudolf Braun dell\&$\#$39;\«Institut fur spezielle Botanik\» di Zurigo un piccolo lotto di Anfipodi raccolti in acque dolci della regione Amazonica da Harald Sioli dell\&$\#$39;\«Instituto Agronomico do Norte\» di Bel\ém do Par\á (Brasile). Tra il materiale in gran parte costituito da specie del genere Hyalella, gi\à ben noto per la fauna neotropicale e su cui riferir\ò in altra sede, rinvenni un unico esemplare che riconobbi appartenere ad una nuova specie del genere Bogidiella Hertzog fino ad ora conosciuto per le acque sotterranee di due sole localit\à europee (Strasburgo e Skoplje). Dato il grande interesse biogeografico del nuovo reperto ho ritenuto opportuno segnalarlo nella presente nota. Ringrazio vivamente R. Braun e H. Sioli per avermi affidato Io studio di cos\ì interessante materiale.

}, keywords = {Amazonia, Brazil}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {32, title = {Una nuova Bogidiella della Sardegna (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae)}, journal = {Fragmenta entomologica}, volume = {11}, year = {1975}, pages = {73-82}, abstract = {

Bogidiella ichnusae, a new species from Sardinia, collected in the interstitial waters of the Liscia river (Sassari), is described and its systematic relationships are discussed. The new species, similar for some characters (namely, for the shape of the telson and of the pleopods) to B. albertimagni and B. glacialis. It is easily distinguishable from these for the shape of the gnathopods, of the Hertzog\&$\#$39;s organs, of the coxal plates and of the uropods; for all these characters, it seems to be similar to B. chappuisi, from which it is distinguishable for the shape of the telson.
Brief notes are given over the finding in another stream in Sardinia (Rio Isalle, Nuoro) of a few specimens belonging to another Bogidiella species, more similar to B. chappuisi, but well distinguishable either from the new B. ichnusae or from B. vandeli, the only one species hitherto known from Sardinia (Rio di Quirra).

}, keywords = {Italy, Sardinia}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro and Vigna-Taglianti, Augusto} } @article {20, title = {Studi sui Crostacei Anfipodi 68. Descrizione di Kerguelenella macra n. gen. n. sp. (Amphipoda Gammaridae) delle isole Kerguelen}, journal = {Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Verona}, volume = {18}, year = {1970}, pages = {43-54}, abstract = {

On d\écrit Kerguelenella macra n. gene n. sp. (Amphipoda Gammaridae) sur un exemplaire trouv\é dans l\&$\#$39;estomac d\&$\#$39;un Saumon de fontaine (Salvelinus fontinalis MITCHELL) pech\é dans un cours d\&$\#$39;eau de l\&$\#$39;ile principale de l\&$\#$39;archipel des Kerguelen. Le genre Kerguelenella est systematiquement tr\ès isol\é par ses caract\ères morphologiques et il ne presente aucune affinit\é avec les autres genres des Gammarides d\&$\#$39;eau douce de la region australe.

}, keywords = {Kerguelen}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {18, title = {Three new subterranean Bogidiella from Mexico and Guatemala (Crustacea, Amphipoda). Subterranean fauna of Mexico, part 2}, journal = {Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei}, volume = {171}, year = {1973}, pages = {105-133}, abstract = {

Three new species of the genus Bogidiella HERTZOG (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae) are described from subterranean waters of Mexico and Guatemala.
Two of these species (sbordonii, arganoi) have been collected during the biospeleological researches in Mexico (1969, 1971) promoted and financed by the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. During, these researches, also Bogidiella tabascensis VILLALOBOS, the only one species hitherto known from Central America, has been found in the type locality (Tabasco, Grutas de Cocona), and also in a new one in the Chiapas state (Grutas de Rancho Nuevo, at 2275 m).
Bogidiella sbordonii n.sp. (Mexico, Chiapas, Cueva de Cerro Brujo) and Bogidiella holsingeri n.sp. (Guatemala, Alta Verapaz, Cueva Seamay and Cueva Sepacuite n. 2) are two cave dwelling species, and have a relatively large size (respectively 7 mm and 4,5 mm); Bogidiella arganoi n.sp. (Mexico, Veracruz, Paraje Nuevo, well) is a phreatic species and has a relatively little size (2 mm).
The differences between the four Central American Bogidiella species are shown in table.
The last part of this work deals with the position of the Central American species within the genus Bogidiella, and, as far our present knowledge permits us to see, it is not possible to groups of species, based on systematic relationships, since the Bogidiella species have a complex of characters variously combinated and recurring within the various taxa just now described.

}, keywords = {Guatemala, Mexico}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro and Vigna-Taglianti, Augusto} } @article {16, title = {Studi sui Crostacei Anfipodi 64. Bogidiella somala n.sp. delle acque sotterranee della Somalia (Crustacea Amphipoda)}, journal = {Monitore zoologico italiano, Supplemento}, volume = {3}, year = {1970}, pages = {159-171}, abstract = {

The Author describes Bogidiella somala n.sp., collected in weels in the middle Uebi Scebeli valley (Somalia). The species is notably isolated within its genus by the particular morphology of the mandibles, the extremely lengthened mandibular palp (Fig. 2 A ), the broad coxal plates (Fig. 2 C) and by the morphology of the 5th-7th pair of pereiopods, which have an enlarged basipodite (Fig. 4 B, D).
B. somala (with B. tabascensis Villalobos and B. bredirti Shoemaker) has the general structure of a cavernicolous type, which contrasts with the many forms o f the mesopsammic-interstitial type. The discovery of B. somala is of notable zoogeographic interest as until now neither superficial or subterranean freshwater Gammaridae were known to exist in intertropical Africa.

}, keywords = {Africa, Somalia}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {15, title = {Studi sui Crostacei Anfipodi 92. Nuovi anfipodi di acque sotterranee della Somalia}, journal = {Monitore zoologico italiano, Supplemento}, volume = {17}, year = {1982}, pages = {97-113}, abstract = {

Hadzia pachypoda n. sp., which inhabits the interstitial and phreatical freshwaters of northern Somalia is described. According to the morphology of this new species it results that (i) the genus Hadzia S. Karaman, 1932 must divided into the subgenera Hadzia s. str. and Metaniphargus Stephensen, 1933, and (ii) the genera Liagoceradocus J. L. Barnard, 1965 and Metahadzia Stock, 1977 are synonymous with Hadzia s. str. This is the first time that Hadzia has been recorded in Africa.
New data on the genus Afridiella G. S. Karaman \& J. L. Barnard, 1979 are also given. Afridiella somala (Ruffo, 1970) has been found in wells located midway in the Uebi Scebeli basin (right side), 50-130 km north of the typical locality. Afridiella pectinicauda n. sp. has been discovered on the left side of the Uebi Scebeli river. It is easily distinguished from other Afridiella by the longer and thinner legs and antennae, and other aspects of the buccal apparatus.

}, keywords = {Africa, Somalia}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {14, title = {Nuovi bogidiellidi delle acque sotterranee africane (Crustacea Amphipoda)}, journal = {Monitore zoologico italiano, Supplemento}, volume = {20}, year = {1985}, pages = {135-148}, abstract = {

Two new species of amphipods (Crustacea), inhabiting the phreatical freshwaters of two different African localities, are described. Afridiella messanai n. sp., collected in a well of Uebhao (southern Somalia) differs from the other known species, above all in the mandibular palp, in the shape of the gnathopods and in the number of spines of uropods III. The discovery of this species reduces the distinguishing differences between Afridiella and Bogidiella. Particularly, the mandibular palp, mandibular corn and gnathopods lose importance. Maghrebidiella maroccana n. gen. n. sp., collected in Morocco, in a well near Marrakech, differs from the other bogidiellid genera in the following characters: epistome and mandibular palp shape, non-triturative molar process, inner lobe of the maxillae I without setae, pleopods with outer ramus extended, and outer side of uropods I rami with three spines. Maghrebidiella seems to have intermediate features between Afridiella and Bogidiella, approaching, in part, to Spelaeogammarus.

}, keywords = {Marocco, Somalia}, author = {Diviacco, G. and Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {3, title = {Studi sui Crostacei Anfipodi 77. Nuovi Anfipodi interstiziali delle coste del Sud Africa}, journal = {Atti dell{\textquoteright}Istituto Veneto di Scienze, Lettere ed Arti}, volume = {132}, year = {1974}, pages = {399-419}, abstract = {

Three new species of Crustacea Amphipoda are described. These species were found in the litoral interstitial habitat of the South Africa (Table Bay, Cape Town), and two new genera have been instituted for two of them: Ingolfiella berrisfordi n. sp., Bollegidia capensis n. gen. n. sp., Paramoerella interstitialis n. gen. n. sp. Ingolfiella berrisfordi is the first african species of this genus. Bollegidia capensis, a Gammarid of the \“Bogidiella\” group, is very similar to the Bollegidia sootai (Coineau and Chandrasekhara Rao) recently described from the Andamane Isles. Paramoerella interstitial is, at last, is the first interstitial Eusirid which have been reported.

}, keywords = {South Africa}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {2, title = {Studi sui Crostacei Anfipodi 74. Contributo alla revisione del genere Bogidiella Hertzog (Crustacea, Amphipoda, Gammaridae)}, journal = {Bollettino dell{\textquoteright}Istituto di Entomologia della Universita di Bologna}, volume = {31}, year = {1973}, pages = {49-77}, abstract = {

At least 18 species of Europe, Africa, Asia, Middle and South America, belong to the genus Bogidiella Hertzog 1933 (= Jugocrangonyx S. Karaman 1933). This paper gives a catalog of all the species well known today, with their bibliographical data and their occurrence. The Authors then examine the systematic position of the genus Bogidiella which has been classified in a special family (Bogidiellidae) by some authors, and which is considered to belong to the Gammaridae by others. The analysis of the features of this genus made us decide to include it in the Gammaridae family, of which it forms a particular group, in any case (Bogidiella group). Pseudingolfiella Noodt and, probably, Parancrangonyx Stebbing and Kerguelenella Ruffo also belong to this group which is characterized by the pleopods reduction. We have studied the specific characters of all the species of Bogidiella, and their relationship with the taxonomy of the genus; those characters have been included in the tables (see table I) and discussed individually. We have concluded that the majority of the described species are valid; doubts are expressed on the B. glacialis S. Karaman, which is probably synonimous of B. albertimagni Hertzog and on B. ruffoi Birstein and Ljovuschkin, which is very similar to the B. lindbergi Ruffo. Considering current knowledge on the subject, it is not possible to recognize groups of similar species within the genus; as a matter of fact, the species known today show a range of diverging characters which are combined differently in different geographical areas. A table is shown to classify, using the more evident morphological characters, the different species of Bogidiella. From an ecological point of view the Bogidiella is divided into four different groups: a) mesopsammic marine species, b) litoral interstitial species, c) hyporheic interstitial species, d) troglobitic species. Two morphologically distinct types correspond to those four ecological groups: the mesopsammic interstitial type, which characterizes the first, second and third group, and the troglobitic type. From a biogeographical and evolutionary point of view, it seems evident that the Bogidiella come from the sea and their spreading to fresh water occurred in two different ways: the first was through the litoral interstitial habitat to the hyporrheic interstitial habitat, and the second by colonization, directly or indirectly, of large underground water basins. This population of the fresh water certainly occurred during different periods; as a matter of fact it is possible to find, even today, litoral interstitial species moving to the fresh water, while on the other hand species localized in regions corresponding to tertiary seas far from the actual coastal lines have been described (Central Asia, the Dead Sea, Danubian Region). With regard to this latter case, the transition to fresh water certainly occurred during the prequaternary period.

}, keywords = {revision}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} } @article {1, title = {Studi sui Crostacei Anfipodi 95. Bogidiella nubica n. sp. from interstitial waters of the Sudan (Crustacea: Amphipoda)}, journal = {Hydrobiologia}, volume = {110}, year = {1984}, pages = {131-134}, abstract = {

Description of Bogidiella nubica, from interstitial waters in the Sudan. It is the first Bogidiella species\ known for the African continent, except for the Mediterranean area.

}, keywords = {Africa, Sudan}, author = {Ruffo, Sandro} }