Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Hexapoda > Class Insecta > Subclass Pterygota > Order Diptera > Suborder Brachycera > Kingdom Schizophora > Kingdom Acalyptrata > Superfamily Ephydroidea

Ephydridae

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Discomyzinae
Ephydrinae
Gymnomyzinae
Hydrelliinae
Ilytheinae
Psilopinae

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

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

English-United States: shore-flies sources: Charles Hussey

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

Norwegian Bokmål: vannfluer

Norwegian Nynorsk: vassfluger

Nynorsk (Norwegian): 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.

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Citation

WoRMS (2014). Ephydridae. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118101

Dr Tadeusz Zatwarnicki. Ephydridae. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=10913