Niphargidae

Niphargidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans. Its distribution is in western Eurasia, and its members mainly live in subterranean freshwaters habitats.^[2] It contains the following genera:^[1][3]

• Carinurella Sket, 1971
• Foroniphargus G. Karaman, 1985
• Haploginglymus Mateus & Mateus, 1958
• Microniphargus Schellenberg, 1934
• Niphargellus Schellenberg, 1938
• Niphargobates Sket, 1981
• Niphargopsis Chevreux, 1922 (synonym of Niphargus)
• Niphargus Schiødte, 1847
• Pontoniphargus Dancău, 1970

Niphargidae
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Amphipoda
Suborder:	Senticaudata
Infraorder:	Gammarida
Parvorder:	Crangonyctidira
Superfamily:	Crangonyctoidea
Family:	Niphargidae Bousfield, 1977[1]