Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Allotriocarida > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Infraclass Pterygota > Order Coleoptera > Suborder Adephaga > Superfamily Caraboidea

Dytiscidae Leach, 1815

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Agabinae
Colymbetinae
Copelatinae
Dytiscinae
Hydroporinae
Laccophilinae

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: waterroofkevers

English: diving beetles sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

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

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

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

Swedish: dykare

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.