| Publication Type: | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication: | 2000 |
| Authors: | S. Koenemann, Holsinger J. R. |
| Journal: | Proceedings of the Biological Society of Washington |
| Volume: | 113 |
| Issue: | 1 |
| Pagination: | 104-123 |
| Keywords: | Brazil, phylogeny |
| Abstract: | Three new subterranean amphipods of the genus Spelaeogammarus da Silva Brum, 1975, are described from eastern Brazil, bringing the total number of species in the genus to four. Based on the examination of type-material of Spelaeogammarus bahiensis, a comparative diagnosis of all four species of Spelaeogammarus. including the new species Spelaeogammarus spinilacertus, Spelaeogammarus trajanoae, and Spelaeogammarus santanensis, is given. A diagnosis for the genus is also provided. The occurrence of these species in caves that are separated from each other in discontinuous karst areas is biogeographically significant for the family Bogidiellidae in continental South America. |
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