Ligiidae
Appearance
Ligiidae | |
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Ligia oceanica | |
Ligidium japonicum | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Malacostraca |
Order: | Isopoda |
Suborder: | Oniscidea |
Infraorder: | Ligiamorpha |
Section: | Diplocheta Vandel, 1957 [2] |
Family: | Ligiidae Leach, 1814 [1] |
Ligiidae is a family of woodlice, the only family in the infraorder Diplocheta.[3][2] Its members are common on rocky shores, in similar habitats to those inhabited by species of the bristletail Petrobius and the crab Cyclograpsus.[4] The family contains these genera:[5]
- Caucasoligidium Borutzky, 1950
- †Eoligiiscus Sánchez-García, Peñalver, Delclos & Engel, 2021
- Ligia Fabricius, 1798
- Ligidioides Wahrberg, 1922
- Ligidium Brandt, 1833
- Tauroligidium Borutzky, 1950
- Typhloligidium Verhoeff, 1918
References
[edit]- ^ "Ligiidae Leach, 1814". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ^ a b "Diplocheta". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- ^ "Ligiidae". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- ^ Colin Little (1990). "Rocky and shingle shores as routes to land". The Terrestrial Invasion: an Ecophysiological Approach to the Origins of Land Animals. Cambridge Studies in Ecology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 148–166. ISBN 978-0-521-33669-7.
- ^ Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 341 pp.