Niphargobates

{{Short description|Genus of crustaceans}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Niphargobates

| authority = Sket, 1981

| subdivision_ranks = Species

| subdivision = *Niphargobates lefkodemonaki Sket, 1990

• Niphargobates orophobata Sket, 1981

}}

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.{{cite web |url=http://niphargus.info/niphargidae/niphargobates/niphargobates-lefkodemonaki/ |title=Niphargobates lefkodemonaki |author=Cene Fišer |author2=Peter Trontelj |author3=Boris Sket |name-list-style=amp |publisher=Niphargus |access-date=April 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721231952/http://niphargus.info/niphargidae/niphargobates/niphargobates-lefkodemonaki/ }} Niphargobates orophobata is only known to occur in caves near Postojna, Slovenia.{{cite web |url=http://niphargus.info/niphargidae/niphargobates/niphargobates-orophobata/ |title=Niphargobates orophobata |author=Cene Fišer |author2=Peter Trontelj |author3=Boris Sket |name-list-style=amp |publisher=Niphargus |access-date=April 13, 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 21, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721232011/http://niphargus.info/niphargidae/niphargobates/niphargobates-orophobata/ }} Both species are listed as vulnerable on the IUCN Red List.{{Cite iucn | author = Sket, B. | title = Niphargobates lefkodemonaki | year = 1996 | page = e.T14794A4460769 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T14794A4460769.en}}{{Cite iucn | author = Sket, B. | title = Niphargobates orophobata | year = 1996 | page = e.T14793A4460738 | doi = 10.2305/IUCN.UK.1996.RLTS.T14793A4460738.en}}