{{Short description|Family of crustaceans}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Niphargus ictus.jpg | display_parents = 4 | taxon = Niphargidae | authority = Bousfield, 1977<ref name="WoRMS">{{cite WoRMS |author= Horton, T. |author2= Lowry, J.|year=2014 |title= Niphargidae Bousfield, 1977|id= 545660 |access-date= |db=amphipoda}}</ref> }}
'''Niphargidae''' is a family of amphipod crustaceans. Its distribution is in western Eurasia, and its members mainly live in subterranean freshwaters habitats.<ref name="Niphargus">{{cite web |url=http://niphargus.info/ |title=''Niphargus'' home page|first1 = Cene | last1 = Fišer | first2 = Peter | last2 = Trontelj | first3 = Boris | last3 = Sket | access-date = April 26, 2014}}</ref> It contains the following genera:<ref name="WoRMS" /><ref>{{Cite web | url = http://niphargus.info/niphargidae/ | title = Check list | work = Niphargus | first1 = Cene | last1 = Fišer | first2 = Peter | last2 = Trontelj | first3 = Boris | last3 = Sket | access-date = September 16, 2010 | archive-date = October 26, 2013 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20131026134628/http://niphargus.info/niphargidae/ | url-status = dead }}</ref> *''Carinurella'' <small>Sket, 1971</small> *''Foroniphargus'' <small>G. Karaman, 1985</small> *''Haploginglymus'' <small>Mateus & Mateus, 1958</small> *''Microniphargus'' <small>Schellenberg, 1934</small> *''Niphargellus'' <small>Schellenberg, 1938</small> *''Niphargobates'' <small>Sket, 1981</small> *''Niphargopsis'' <small>Chevreux, 1922</small> (synonym of ''Niphargus'') *''Niphargus'' <small>Schiødte, 1847</small> *''Pontoniphargus'' <small>Dancău, 1970</small>
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Category:Niphargidae Category:Amphipod families
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