Ligiidae

Ligiidae is a family of woodlice, the only family in the infraorder Diplocheta.[3][1] 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
"Diplocheta" redirects here. For the superorder of millipedes in class Diplopoda, see Juliformia.

Ligiidae
Ligia oceanica
Ligidium japonicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Infraorder: Ligiamorpha
Section: Diplocheta
Vandel, 1957 [1]
Family: Ligiidae
Leach, 1814 [2]

References
  1. "Diplocheta". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
  2. "Ligiidae Leach, 1814". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
  3. "Ligiidae". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
  4. 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.
  5. Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 341 pp.


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