Niphargobates | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Amphipoda |
Family: | Niphargidae |
Genus: |
Niphargobates Sket, 1981 |
Species | |
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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. [1] Niphargobates orophobata is only known to occur in caves near Postojna, Slovenia. [2] Both species are listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List. [3] [4]