@article {295, title = {Groundwater amphipods (Crustacea, Malacostraca) of India, with description of three new cavernicolous species}, journal = {Zootaxa}, volume = {4508}, year = {2018}, pages = {403{\textendash}426}, abstract = {

Stygofaunistic surveys of peninsular India yielded, among others, three new cavernicolous amphipod taxa: Orientogidiella reducta gen. n., sp. n. in the Borra caves of Andhra Pradesh state, Bogidiella hindustanica sp. n. (Bogidiellidae) and Indoniphargus subterraneus sp. n. (Austroniphargidae) in the Kapiladevi caves of Telangana state. The new genus, Orientogidiella gen. n., is proposed to accommodate all the hitherto known species of the Bogidiella indica-group. This paper gives an illustrated description of the three new species together with their taxonomic affinities. A new record of O. indica comb. n., from the Guthikonda caves in Andhra Pradesh is provided as well. The structure of the Indoniphargus mandible is revisited with scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and revealed a poorly known flexible structure on the molar process which could be useful for phylogenetic purposes. The species diversity and geographic distribution of the Indian stygobiotic amphipods are briefly reviewed.

}, keywords = {cave, India, SEM}, doi = {10.11646/zootaxa.4508.3.4}, author = {Sidorov, Dmitry A and Reddy, Ranga Y and Shaik, Shabuddin} } @article {58, title = {A new species of Bogidiella (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Bogidiellidae) from bore wells in Andhra Pradesh, Southern India}, journal = {Zoologia}, volume = {30}, year = {2013}, pages = {451-457}, abstract = {

A new amphipod species of Bogidiellidae Hertzog, 1936 is described and illustrated based on specimens collected from bore wells in the state of Andhra Pradesh, Southern India. The new species is closely related to those belonging to a group of Bogidiella species with inner rami of pleopods reduced or absent. Bogidiella totakura sp. nov. differs from all the other species in the group mainly by the shape, size and ornamentation on gnathopods and telson. This is the second Indian species of Bogidiella.

}, keywords = {Andhra Pradesh, India}, author = {Senna, Andr{\'e} R. and Mugnai, Riccardo and Reddy, Ranga Y} } @article {56, title = {Bogidiella indica, a new species of subterranean amphipod crustacean (Bogidiellidae) from wells in southeastern India, with remarks on the biogeographic importance of recently discovered bogidiellids on the Indian subcontinent}, journal = {Subterranean Biology}, volume = {4}, year = {2006}, pages = {45-54}, abstract = {

Bogidiella indica, new species, is described from three water wells in southeastern India, including a bore-well on the campus of Acharya Nagarjuna University in Nagarjunanagar, a water well in Guntur town, and an agricultural well in the Godavari and Krishna Basin, all in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India. The new species is assigned to the genus Bogidiella Hertzog and to a newly designated species group within the genus. Despite the near circum-global distribution of the family Bogidiellidae, only a single, partially intact specimen of a bogidiellid had been collected from the Indian subcontinent prior to the discovery of specimens from the well in Nagarjunanagar.\  Including the new taxon described in this paper, the family Bogidiellidae contains 35 genera and 106 species. Although B. indica is closely similar to other species presently assigned to the genus Bogidiella, it is easily distinguished by a proportionately shorter and relatively heavily spinose pereopod 5. The sexes are generally similar except that the male bears a large, distally modified apical spine on the inner ramus of uropod 1. The location of\  the well sites within 45 to 50 km of the eastern coast of India strongly suggests that they lie in an area that was submerged under shallow marine water within the last 1 million years.

}, keywords = {Andhra Pradesh, India}, author = {Holsinger, John R. and Reddy, Ranga Y and Messouli, Mohammed} } @article {55, title = {A reassessment of the phylogenetic utility of genus-level morphological characters in the family Bogidiellidae (Crustacea, Amphipoda), with description of a new species of Eobogidiella Karaman, 1981}, journal = {ZooKeys}, volume = {610}, year = {2016}, pages = {23-43}, abstract = {

Bogidiellidae is the most diverse and cosmopolitan family of stygobiotic amphipods, and inhabits a variety of subterranean biotopes, especially interstitial habitats. While the family is characterized by considerable sexual dimorphism, this dimorphism has adversely affected our understanding of the systematics of the group. Most species have restricted geographic ranges and occur in difficult to sample habitats, so it is common for individual species descriptions to be based on a single sex. In this work we revisit an analysis of morphological characters in an attempt to clarify their phylogenetic utility in resolving taxonomic relationships among genera by introducing a new species, two additional characters, and phylogenetic statistical support values. Eobogidiella venkataramani sp. n., from a spring fed brook in the Shirawati River basin along the escarpment of the Western Ghats (Karnataka, India) differs from the only known congener, Eobogidiella purmamarcensis, from Argentina, in the structure of mouthparts, the shape and ornamentation on gnathopods and characters of the telson. Our phylogenetic analyses indicate that the available morphological characters are not sufficient to resolve phylogenetic relationships within Bogidiel lidae, thus these characters alone cannot be used to determine the phylogenetic placement of E. venkataramani sp. n. within the family. Nevertheless, E. venkataramani sp. n. shares diagnostic characters with Eobogidiella, supporting placement of the new species in this genus. Our findings point towards a critical need to resolve relationships within the family using molecular approaches, along with the development of a suite of additional morphological characters for Bogidiellidae. This is the third species of Bogidiellidae from southern India.

}, keywords = {India, Karnataka, phylogeny}, author = {Sidorov, Dmitry A and Katz, Aron D and Taylor, Steven J and Chertoprud, Mikhail V} }