Niphargus hrabei

Niphargus hrabei is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae.[2] It is an originally Ponto-Caspian species that was found in the River Danube in Bavaria in the mid 1990s.[3] It is now known to occur in Austria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Russia, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, and Ukraine; it is listed as a vulnerable species on the IUCN Red List.[1]

Niphargus hrabei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Subphylum:
Crustacea
Class:
Malacostraca
Order:
Amphipoda
Family:
Niphargidae
Genus:
Niphargus
Species:
N. hrabei
Binomial name
Niphargus hrabei
S. Karaman, 1932

References
  1. Boris Sket (1996). "Niphargus hrabei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. 1996: e.T14806A4460995. doi:10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T14806A4460995.en.
  2. Jim Lowry (2010). "Niphargus hrabei S. Karaman, 1932". World Register of Marine Species. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
  3. H. A. M. Ketelaars (2004). "Range extensions of Ponto-Caspian aquatic invertebrates in continental Europe". In Henri J. Dumont; Tamara A. Shiganova; Ulrich Niermann (eds.). Aquatic Invasions in the Black, Caspian, and Mediterranean Seas: the Ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi and Beroe in the Ponto-Caspian and Other Aquatic Invasions. NATO Science Series: earth and environmental sciences. 35. Springer. pp. 209–235. ISBN 978-1-4020-1869-5.


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