Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Pterygota > Order Diptera > Suborder Brachycera > Infraorder Muscomorpha > Section Schizophora > Subsection Acalyptrata > Superfamily Ephydroidea

Ephydridae Zetterstedt, 1837

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Discomyzinae
Ephydrinae
Gymnomyzinae
Hydrelliinae
Ilytheinae
Notiphilinae
Psilopinae

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: oevervliegen

English: shore flies & brine flies; shore-flies sources: Cheng, L. (Ed.). (1976). Marine insects. North-Holland Publishing Company: Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 0-444-11213-8. XII, 581 pp.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Japanese: ミギワバエ科 sources: Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science and Technology. (2009 onwards). Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL). Accessed on 2018-11-21.

Norwegian Bokmål: vannfluer sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: vassfluger sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: vattenflugor

Literature

basis of record	Legakis, A. (2001). Insecta, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 323-324
additional source	Grootaert, P.; De Bruyn, L.; De Meyer, M. (1991). Catalogue of the Diptera of Belgium. Studiedocumenten van het Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen. 70: 338pp.