Niphargidae is a
family
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of
amphipod
Amphipoda is an order of malacostracan crustaceans with no carapace and generally with laterally compressed bodies. Amphipods range in size from and are mostly detritivores or scavengers. There are more than 9,900 amphipod species so far descr ...
crustacean
Crustaceans (Crustacea, ) form a large, diverse arthropod taxon which includes such animals as decapods, seed shrimp, branchiopods, fish lice, krill, remipedes, isopods, barnacles, copepods, amphipods and mantis shrimp. The crustacean group ...
s. Its distribution is in western Eurasia, and its members mainly live in subterranean freshwaters habitats.
It contains the following genera:
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Carinurella
''Carinurella paradoxa'' is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae, and the only species in the genus ''Carinurella''. It is found in phreatic waters of the and () rivers in Italy and Slovenia
Slovenia ( ; sl, Slovenija ), offic ...
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Sket, 1971
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Foroniphargus''
G. Karaman, 1985
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Haploginglymus''
Mateus & Mateus, 1958
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Microniphargus''
Schellenberg, 1934
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Niphargellus
Niphargellus is a genus of amphipod crustaceans within the family Niphargidae.
A cladogram according to the Catalogue of Life
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Schellenberg, 1938
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Niphargobates
''Niphargobates'' is a genus of amphipod crustaceans containing two species from European caves. ''Niphargobates lefkodemonaki'' is only known to occur in a cave near Xyloskalo in the Lefka Ori mountains, Crete, Greece. ''Niphargobates orophob ...
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Sket, 1981
*''Niphargopsis''
Chevreux, 1922 (synonym of ''Niphargus'')
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Niphargus
''Niphargus'' is by far the largest genus of its family, the Niphargidae, and the largest of all freshwater amphipod genera.
Usually, these animals inhabit caves or groundwater. They occur in western Eurasia, in regions that were not covered by ...
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Schiødte, 1847
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Pontoniphargus''
Dancău, 1970
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Crustacean families
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