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  Superfamily Crangonyctoidea

Family Niphargidae

    Genus Carinurella
    Genus Foroniphargus
    Genus Haploginglymus
    Genus Microniphargus
    Genus Niphargellus
    Genus Niphargobates
    Genus Niphargopsis
    Genus Niphargus
    Genus Pontoniphargus

Taxon Information

The Family Niphargidae has been reported (or is assumed) to occur in fresh waters. This taxon has not been reported from North America.

(These statements were generated automatically from the WInvertebrates database.)

Literature Records

• Niphargidae, "Freshwater, hypogean... Palaearctic" (Lowry & Myers, 2012).
• Niphargidae, [Palearctic; 319 species in 9 genera worldwide] (Väinölä et al., 2008).

Bibliography

• Lowry, J.K. & A.A. Myers. 2012. A phylogeny and classification of the Senticaudata subord. nov. (Crustacea: Amphipoda). ZooTaxa 3610: 1-80. [Available online]
• Väinölä, R., J.D.S. Witt, M. Grabowski, J.H. Bradbury, K. Jazdzewski & B. Sket. 2008. Global diversity of amphipods (Amphipoda; Crustacea) in freshwater. Hydrobiologia 595: 241-255. [Available online]

Web Pages

• World Amphipoda Database