Ligiidae

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Ligiidae
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Ligia oceanica
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Ligidium japonicum
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
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

This family contains the following genera: [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "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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