Ligidium

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Ligidium
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Ligidium japonicum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Ligiidae
Genus: Ligidium
Brandt, 1833  [1]
Species

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Ligidium is a genus of woodlice. It contains about 68 species, [2] six of which are probably taxonomic synonyms of Ligidium hypnorum or Ligidium germanicum . [1] Of the remainder, 18 species are found in North America, [2] six in Japan, two in Taiwan, four in China, 12 in Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, and six in Greece. [1]

The following is an incomplete list of Ligidium species: [2] [1] [3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) — revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 341 pp.
  2. 1 2 3 Recuero, Ernesto; Caterino, Michael S. (2025-02-07). "Is there anybody (new) out there? Seven new species of Ligidium (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Ligiidae) from the Southern Appalachians, eastern North America". European Journal of Taxonomy (976): 133–170. doi: 10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2783 . ISSN   2118-9773.
  3. ↑ Wang, Jin; Yang, Jingbo; Zeng, Xuegang; Li, Weichun (2022). "Integrative taxonomy on the rare sky-island Ligidium species from southwest China (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Ligiidae)". BMC Zoology. 7 (1). doi: 10.1186/s40850-022-00120-1 . ISSN   2056-3132. PMC   10127345 .


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