Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Amphipoda > Suborder Senticaudata > Infraorder Gammarida > Parvorder Crangonyctidira > Superfamily Crangonyctoidea

Niphargidae Bousfield, 1977

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Carinurella Sket, 1964
Foroniphargus Karaman, 1985
Haploginglymus Mateus & Mateus, 1958
Microniphargus Schellenberg, 1934
Niphargellus Schellenberg, 1933
Niphargobates Sket, 1981
Niphargopsis Chevreux, 1922
Niphargus Schiødte, 1849
Pontoniphargus Dancau, 1970

Literature

original description	Bousfield, E. L. (1977). A new look at the systematics of Gammaroidean Amphipods of the World. Crustaceana supplement. 4: 282-316.
additional source	Borko, Š.; Collette, M.; Brad, T.; Zakšek, V.; Flot, J.-F.; Vaxevanopoulos, M.; Sarbu, S. M.; Fišer, C. (2019). Amphipods in a Greek cave with sulphidic and non-sulphidic water: phylogenetically clustered and ecologically divergent. Systematics and Biodiversity. 17(6): 558-572.
additional source	Weber, D.; Stoch, F.; Knight, L. R.; Chauveau, C.; Flot, J.-F. (2021). The genus Microniphargus (Crustacea, Amphipoda): evidence for three lineages distributed across northwestern Europe and transfer from Niphargidae to Pseudoniphargidae. Belgian Journal of Zoology. 151.
additional source	Fišer, C.; Sket, B.; Trontelj, P. (2008). A phylogenetic perspective on 160 years of troubled taxonomy of Niphargus (Crustacea: Amphipoda). Zoologica Scripta. 37(6): 665-680.
additional source	Sket, B.; Karaman, G. S. (2019). Phylogenetic position of the genus Chaetoniphargus Karaman et Sket (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae) from dinaric karst. An extreme case of homoplasy / Filogenetski položaj rodu Chaetoniphargus Karaman et Sket (Crustacea: Amphipoda: Niphargidae) iz. Folia biologica et geologica. 59(2): 93.
additional source	Stoch, F.; Citoleux, J.; Weber, D.; Salussolia, A.; Flot, J.-F. (2024). New insights into the origin and phylogeny of Niphargidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda), with description of a new species and synonymization of the genus Niphargellus with Niphargus. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 202(4).

Genbank

Citation

Horton, T.; Lowry, J.; De Broyer, C.; Bellan-Santini, D.; Copilas-Ciocianu, D.; Corbari, L.; Costello, M.J.; Daneliya, M.; Dauvin, J.-C.; Fišer, C.; Gasca, R.; Grabowski, M.; Guerra-García, J.M.; Hendrycks, E.; Hughes, L.; Jaume, D.; Jazdzewski, K.; Kim, Y.-H.; King, R.; Krapp-Schickel, T.; LeCroy, S.; Lörz, A.-N.; Mamos, T.; Senna, A.R.; Serejo, C.; Souza-Filho, J.F.; Tandberg, A.H.; Thomas, J.D.; Thurston, M.; Vader, W.; Väinölä, R.; Valls Domedel, G.; Vonk, R.; White, K.; Zeidler, W. (2025). World Amphipoda Database. Niphargidae Bousfield, 1977. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:545660

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Niphargidae Bousfield, 1977. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/7e6a9ef2-8d70-4c34-80d2-bcc7d8ab13b1