| Niphargus elegans | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| Order: | Amphipoda |
| Family: | Niphargidae |
| Genus: | Niphargus |
| Species: | N. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| Niphargus elegans Garbini, 1894 [1] | |
Niphargus elegans is a species of amphipod crustaceans in the family Niphargidae. It is found in Italy.
Caenorhabditis elegans is a free-living transparent nematode about 1 mm in length that lives in temperate soil environments. It is the type species of its genus. The name is a blend of the Greek caeno- (recent), rhabditis (rod-like) and Latin elegans (elegant). In 1900, Maupas initially named it Rhabditides elegans. Osche placed it in the subgenus Caenorhabditis in 1952, and in 1955, Dougherty raised Caenorhabditis to the status of genus.
Carinurella paradoxa is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae, and the only species in the genus Carinurella. It is found in phreatic waters of the Vipava and Soča rivers in Italy and Slovenia.
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. Niphargobates orophobata is only known to occur in caves near Postojna, Slovenia. Both species are listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.
Niphargus aberrans is a species of crustacean in the family Niphargidae. It is endemic to Slovenia.
Niphargus is by far the largest genus of its family, the Niphargidae, and the largest of all freshwater amphipod genera.
Niphargus hadzii is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae. It is endemic to Slovenia, and is named after Slovene zoologist Jovan Hadži.
Niphargus hrabei is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae. It is an originally Ponto-Caspian species that was found in the River Danube in Bavaria in the mid 1990s. 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.
Niphargus sphagnicolus is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae. It is endemic to Slovenia.
Niphargus spoeckeri is a species of crustacean in the family Niphargidae. It is endemic to Slovenia.
Niphargus stenopus is a species of freshwater amphipod crustacean which is endemic to Slovenia.
Niphargus timavi is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae. It is found in Italy and Slovenia.
Niphargus valachicus is a species of crustacean in family Niphargidae. This species of crustacean is native to Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary, Romania, Serbia and Montenegro, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
Niphargidae is a family of amphipod crustaceans. Its distribution is in western Eurasia, and its members mainly live in subterranean freshwaters habitats. It contains the following genera:
Niphargus tatrensis is a troglobitic species of crustacean in the family Niphargidae, living in the karst waters of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia. It can be found in caves, and also in karst springs and in wells in the karstic areas.
Zinnia elegans known as youth-and-age, common zinnia or elegant zinnia, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae. It is native to Mexico but grown as an ornamental in many places and naturalised in several places, including scattered locations in South and Central America, the West Indies, the United States, Australia, and Italy.
Mariannaea elegans an anamorphic fungus. It is mainly found on rotting wood and soil. M. elegans is not pathogenic to humans, animals, or plants.
Niphargus wexfordensis is a species of Niphargus of the family Niphargidae endemic to County Wexford in south-eastern Ireland.
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