Bogidiella martini, un nouvel Amphipode souterrain de l' Ile Saint-Martin (Antilles) et la zoogéographie des Bogidiellidae

Both sexes of a new species of Bogidiella. B. martini, are described. The new species, with a very pronounced sexual dimorphism, has been discovered in two wells in the island of St.-Martin (French part), one of the Lesser Antilles. Another member of Bogidiella has been recorded from the island of Curacao, but the specimens were damaged too much to allow proper description.
The Bogidiellidae (5 genera, 26 named species, several unnamed species) are present in the sea as well as in inland waters. The family has a wide distrihution, exceeding the boundaries of the former Tethys Sea. Probably, they represent a very old stock that had acquired already a great part of its present-day distribution hefore the fragmentation of the primordial continent of Pangaea during the Mesozoic.