Niphargidae
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Niphargidae is a family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...

 of amphipods. It contains the following genera:
  • Carinurella
    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....

    Sket, 1971
  • Foroniphargus G. Karaman, 1985
  • Haploginglymus Mateus & Mateus, 1958
  • Microniphargus Schellenberg, 1934
  • Niphargellus Schellenberg, 1938
  • Niphargobates
    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 orophobata is only known to occur in caves near Postojna, Slovenia. Both...

    Sket, 1981
  • Niphargopsis Chevreux, 1922
  • Niphargus
    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 mainly in western Eurasia, in regions that were not covered by the Pleistocene ice sheets. Some are found...

    Schiødte, 1847
  • Pontoniphargus Dancău, 1970
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