Canadian Register of Marine Species - Ligia (Megaligia) exotica Roux, 1828

WRiMS taxon details

Ligia (Megaligia) exotica Roux, 1828

AphiaID

955994 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:955994)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ligia (Megaligia) Verhoeff, 1926

Original name

Lygia exotica Roux, 1828

Synonymised names

Lygia exotica Roux, 1828 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (misspelling of genus name)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Lygia exotica Roux, 1828) Roux, P. (1828-1830). Crustacés de la Méditerranée et de son Littoral, Décrits et Lithographiés. i-iv + 1-176 pp., pls. 1-45. Paris & Marseille: Chez Levrault., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9283448 [details]

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Ligia (Megaligia) exotica Roux, 1828. Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955994 on 2025-05-23

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Ligia (Megaligia) exotica Roux, 1828. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=955994 on 2025-05-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-02-22 14:47:42Z

created

Taiti, Stefano

2024-01-07 15:10:41Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Lygia exotica Roux, 1828) Roux, P. (1828-1830). Crustacés de la Méditerranée et de son Littoral, Décrits et Lithographiés. i-iv + 1-176 pp., pls. 1-45. Paris & Marseille: Chez Levrault., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9283448 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (125 barcodes) (from synonym Lygia exotica Roux, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (71 publications) (from synonym Lygia exotica Roux, 1828)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Lygia exotica Roux, 1828)
To PESI (from synonym Lygia exotica Roux, 1828)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (87 records) (from synonym Lygia exotica Roux, 1828)

Unreviewed

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