Biology:Ligiidae
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Short description: Family of woodlice
| Ligiidae | |
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| Ligia oceanica | |
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| Ligidium japonicum | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Superorder: | Peracarida |
| 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
- Ligia Fabricius, 1798
- Ligidioides Wahrberg, 1922
- Ligidium Brandt, 1833
- Tauroligidium Borutzky, 1950
- Typhloligidium Verhoeff, 1918
References
- ↑ "Ligiidae Leach, 1814". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. https://www.itis.gov/servlet/SingleRpt/SingleRpt?search_topic=TSN&search_value=93224. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Diplocheta". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/DIPLOCHETA.
- ↑ "Ligiidae". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. https://biodiversity.org.au/afd/taxa/LIGIIDAE.
- ↑ 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. https://archive.org/details/terrestrialinvas0000litt.
- ↑ Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version". Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A 654: 341 pp. http://www.oniscidea-catalog.naturkundemuseum-bw.de/Cat_terr_isop.pdf.
Wikidata ☰ Q1314554 entry
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