- Niphargus hrabei
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Niphargus hrabei Conservation status 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, 1932Niphargus hrabei is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae.[1] It is an originally Ponto-Caspian species that was found in the River Danube in Bavaria in the mid 1990s.[2] 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.[3]
References
- ^ Jim Lowry (2010). "Niphargus hrabei S. Karaman, 1932". World Register of Marine Species. http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=545816. Retrieved June 19, 2011.
- ^ H. A. M. Ketelaars (2004). "Range extensions of Ponto-Caspian aquatic invertebrates in continental Europe". In Henri J. Dumont, Tamara A. Shiganova & Ulrich Niermann. 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 9781402018695. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=CFZqnCfulHwC&pg=PA225.
- ^ Boris Sket (1996). "Niphargus hrabei". IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2.3. International Union for Conservation of Nature. http://www.iucnredlist.org/apps/redlist/details/14806. Retrieved August 10, 2007.
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