No common name

Code OPxxxxxx

Small, elongate (almost vermiform), blind amphipods with short, slender antennules and antennae. Gnathopod 1 is larger than gnathopod 2. The pleopods are small and slender. Uropods 1 and 2 are short. Uropod 3 is somewhat longer, with the rami subequal in length and cylindrical.

Bogidiellidae is a small family consisting of hypogean or interstitial species. The only recorded Australian species is Bogidomma australis , from Barrow Island (WA).

References:

Bradbury, J. H., and W. D. Williams. (1999) Key to and checklist of the inland aquatic amphipods of Australia . Technical reports of the Australian Museum, number 14.

Horwitz, P., Knott, B. and Williams, W.D. (1995) A Preliminary Key to the Malacostracan Families (Crustacea) found in Australian Inland Waters . Co-operative Research Centre for Freshwater Ecology Identification Guide No. 4., Albury, NSW.

Williams, W. D. (1980) Australian Freshwater Life . Macmillan.