Niphargobatoides lefkodemonaki (Sket, 1990)

Higher Taxonomy

Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Amphipoda
Family: Niphargidae
Genus: Niphargobatoides

Characterisation

Stygobiont

Distribution

Endemic to Greece

Locus Typicus

Spilaio Daimonospilios
Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Platanias / Closest settlement: Lakkoi

Distribution in caves of Greece

• Spilaio Daimonospilios, Sket 1990, Beron 2016, Karaman 2016, Zettler & Zettler 2017, Ntakis et al. 2020
  Region: Kriti / Regional unit: Chania / Municipality: Platanias / Closest settlement: Lakkoi

Comments

Only known from the type locality. Synonymy: Niphargobates leflcodemonaki Sket, 1990. 

IUCN Red List

DD - Data Deficient

Greece's Red Data Book

DD - Data Deficient

Protection status

• There is no species-specific legal framework for protection.

Check Databases

Fauna Europea

GBIF

IUCN Red List

PESI

Species references

• Beron, P. 2016. Faune cavernicole de la Grèce. Maison d'édition Est-West., Sofia. pp. 229.
• Karaman, G. S. 2016. Two New Genera of the Family Niphargidae from Greece (Contribution to the Knowledge of the Amphipoda 287). Agriculture and Forestry, 62 (1): 7-27.
• Ntakis A, Karaouzas I, Fišer C & Stoch F. 2020. An annotated checklist of the Niphargidae (Crustacea: Amphipoda) of Greece. . Zootaxa, 4772(3), 517–544. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4772.3.5
• Sket, B. 1990. Is Niphargobates lefkodemonaki sp. n. (Crustacea: Amphipoda) from Kriti (Greece) a Zoogeographical Enigma?. Zool. Jb. Syst., 117: 1-10.
• Zettler, M., Zettler, A. 2017. A new species of Niphargus (Amphipoda, Niphargidae) from Crete (Greece). Crustaceana 90:1415–1426.

Citation

Paragamian, K. 2026. Niphargobatoides lefkodemonaki (Sket, 1990). In Paragamian, K., M. Poulinakis, S. Paragamian and I. Nikoloudakis. Cave fauna of Greece database - Hellenic Institute of Speleological Research. Species data updated 17.11.2025, Accessed 18.04.2026