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Ligia Fabricius, 1798 
AphiaID: 146998

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Oniscidea (Suborder) > Ligiidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Ligiidae Leach, 1814
Sources  basis of record: Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details]

basis of record: NODC (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Ligia australiensis Dana, 1853
Species Ligia baudiniana H. Milne Edwards, 1840
Species Ligia boninensis Nunomura, 1979
Species Ligia cajennensis Koch, 1847
Species Ligia cinerascens Budde-Lund, 1885
Species Ligia cursor Dana, 1853
Species Ligia curvata Vandel, 1948
Species Ligia dentipes Budde-Lund, 1885
Species Ligia dilatata Brandt, 1833
Species Ligia dioscorides Taiti & Ferrara, 2004
Species Ligia exotica Roux, 1828
Species Ligia ferrarai Kersmaekers & Verstraeten, 1990
Species Ligia filicornis Budde-Lund, 1893
Species Ligia glabrata Brandt, 1833
Species Ligia gracilipes Budde-Lund, 1885
Species Ligia hachijoensis Nunomura, 1999
Species Ligia hawaiensis Dana, 1853
Species Ligia italica Fabricius, 1798
Species Ligia latissima Verhoeff, 1926
Species Ligia litigiosa Wahrberg, 1922
Species Ligia malleata Pfeffer, 1889
Species Ligia miyakensis Nunomura, 1999
Species Ligia natalensis Collinge, 1920
Species Ligia novae-zealandiae Dana, 1853
Species Ligia occidentalis Dana, 1853
Species Ligia oceanica (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Ligia pallasii Brandt, 1833
Species Ligia pallida Jackson, 1938
Species Ligia perkinsi (Dollfus, 1900)
Species Ligia persica Khalaji-Pirbalouty & Wägele, 2010
Species Ligia philoscoides Jackson, 1938
Species Ligia pigmentata Jackson, 1922
Species Ligia platycephala (Van Name, 1925)
Species Ligia quadrata Thomson, 1879
Species Ligia rugosa Jackson, 1938
Species Ligia saipanensis Nunomura, 2001
Species Ligia simoni (Dollfus, 1893)
Species Ligia vitiensis Dana, 1853
Species Ligia yamanishii Nunomura, 1990
Species Ligia yemenica Khalaji-Pirbalouty & Wägele, 2010

Species Ligia dilatatus Perty, 1833 accepted as Stymphalus dilatatus (Perty, 1833)
Environment marine, terrestrial
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146998
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-03-01 09:59:49Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2007-11-28 15:20:16Z  checked  Schotte, Marilyn
2011-09-12 07:57:36Z  changed  Taiti, Stefano
  
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  Citation: Taiti, S.; Schotte, M. (2013). Ligia Fabricius, 1798. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146998 on 2013-06-20
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