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Hygrobiidae  Régimbart, 1879
Taxonomic Serial No.: 678315

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 Taxonomy and Nomenclature
       
  Kingdom: Animalia  
  Taxonomic Rank: Family  
  Synonym(s): Paelobiidae Erichson, 1837
  
  Common Name(s): squeek beetles [English]
  
       
  Taxonomic Status:    
  Current Standing: valid  
       
  Data Quality Indicators:    
  Record Credibility Rating: verified - standards met  
  Global Species Completeness: complete   
  Latest Record Review: 2025   
       

 Taxonomic Hierarchy
       
 KingdomAnimalia  – Animal, animaux, animals  
    SubkingdomBilateria  – triploblasts  
       InfrakingdomProtostomia   
          SuperphylumEcdysozoa   
             PhylumArthropoda  – Artrópode, arthropodes, arthropods  
                SubphylumHexapoda  – hexapods  
                   ClassInsecta  – insects, hexapoda, inseto, insectes  
                      SubclassPterygota  – insects ailés, winged insects  
                         InfraclassNeoptera  – modern, wing-folding insects  
                            SuperorderHolometabola   
                               OrderColeoptera Linnaeus, 1758 – beetles, coléoptères, besouro  
                                  SuborderAdephaga Schellenberg, 1806  
                                     FamilyHygrobiidae Régimbart, 1879 – squeek beetles  
    Direct Children:  
                                        Genus Hygrobia Latreille, 1804  
       

 References
       
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  Source: Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, version 2.1, database (version 2.1)  
  Acquired: 2025   
  Notes: Bouchard, P. (2025). Coleoptera type genera and family-group names, v2.1 (based largely on Bouchard et al. 2024 paper, doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440). Database available at https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/290628/about   
  Reference for: Hygrobiidae   
       
  Publication(s):    
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bouchard, P., Y. Bousquet, A. Davies, M. Alonso-Zarazaga, J. Lawrence, C. Lyal, A. Newton, et al.  
  Publication Date: 2011   
  Article/Chapter Title: Family-group names in Coleoptera (Insecta)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: ZooKeys, vol. 88   
  Page(s): 1-972   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1313-2989   
  Notes: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.88.807   
  Reference for: Hygrobiidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Bouchard, Patrice, Yves Bousquet, Anthony E. Davies, and Chenyang Cai  
  Publication Date: 2024   
  Article/Chapter Title: On the nomenclatural status of type genera in Coleoptera (Insecta)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: ZooKeys, vol. 1194   
  Page(s): 1-981   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 1313-2970   
  Notes: doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1194.106440   
  Reference for: Hygrobiidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Lawrence, J. F., and A. F. Newton, Jr. / Pakaluk, James, and Stanislaw Adam Slipinski, eds.  
  Publication Date: 1995   
  Article/Chapter Title: Families and subfamilies of Coleoptera (with selected genera, notes, references and data on family-group names)   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Biology, Phylogeny, and Classification of Coleoptera: Papers Celebrating the 80th Birthday of Roy A. Crowson, vol. 2   
  Page(s): 779-1006   
  Publisher: Muzeum i Instytut Zoologii PAN   
  Publication Place: Warszawa, Poland   
  ISBN/ISSN: 83-85192-34-4   
  Notes:    
  Reference for: Hygrobiidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nilsson, A. N.  
  Publication Date: 2006   
  Article/Chapter Title: Which name is valid - Hygrobiidae or Paelobiidae?   
  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: Latissimus, no. 21   
  Page(s): 37-39   
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  ISBN/ISSN: 0966-2235   
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  Reference for: Hygrobiidae   
       
  Author(s)/Editor(s): Nilsson, Anders N., and Bernhard J. van Vondel  
  Publication Date: 2005   
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  Journal/Book Name, Vol. No.: World Catalogue of Insects. Volume 7: Amphizoidae, Aspidytidae, Haliplidae, Noteridae and Paelobiidae (Coleoptera, Adephaga)   
  Page(s): 171   
  Publisher: Apollo Books   
  Publication Place: Stenstrup, Denmark   
  ISBN/ISSN: 87-88757-49-8, 1398-8700  
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  Reference for: Hygrobiidae   
       

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 Comments
       
  Comment: Considering the arguments about the use of the junior Hygrobiidae vs. senior Paelobiidae, including Lawrence & Newton (1995), Nilsson (2006), and Bouchard et al. (2011), it appears that Nilsson (2006:38) was wrong to claim that Art. 40.2 can only apply when the younger name was coined as a new replacement name (Glossary definition of 'substitute name' notes that new OR EXISTING names can be used to replace an older available name). Thus, ITIS is using the junior name under Art. 40.2 (and the junior name is deemed to have the same priority as the older name)  
    Lawrence and Newton (1995) give the authorship of Hygrobiidae as Régimbart, 1878 (1837), indicating it takes priority from from the older name from 1837 it was subsituted for  
 

 

    

 
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