Ligiidae
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| Ligiidae | |
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| Ligia oceanica | |
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| Ligidium japonicum | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Isopoda |
| Suborder: | Oniscidea |
| Infraorder: | Ligiamorpha |
| Section: | Diplocheta Vandel, 1957 [1] |
| Family: | Ligiidae Leach, 1814 [2] |
Ligiidae is a family of woodlice, the only family in the infraorder Diplocheta.[3][1] The members of this family are common on rocky shores, in similar habitats to those inhabited by species of the bristletail Petrobius and the crab Cyclograpsus.[4]
Genera
[edit]This family contains the following 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]- 1 2 "Diplocheta". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
- ↑ "Ligiidae Leach, 1814". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ↑ "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. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
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