Isopoda taxon details
Ligidium Brandt, 1833
248907 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:248907)
accepted
Genus
Ligidium persoonii Brandt, 1833 accepted as Ligidium hypnorum (Cuvier, 1792) (type by monotypy)
Epimeridium Verhoeff & Strouhal, 1967 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Euphiloscia Packard, 1873 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ligidium (Ligidium) Brandt, 1833 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Ligidium (Nippoligidium) Borutzky, 1950 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Zia C. Koch, 1841 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Subgenus Ligidium (Stygoligidium) Borutzky, 1950
- Species Ligidium acuminatum Li, 2022
- Species Ligidium acutangulum Li, 2015
- Species Ligidium acutitelson Wang & Kwon, 1993
- Species Ligidium anatolicum Frankenberger, 1950
- Species Ligidium assimile Strouhal, 1971
- Species Ligidium beieri Strouhal, 1928
- Species Ligidium birsteini Borutzky, 1950
- Species Ligidium blueridgense Schultz, 1964
- Species Ligidium bosniense Verhoeff, 1901
- Species Ligidium bosporanum Verhoeff, 1941
- Species Ligidium burmanicum Verhoeff, 1946
- Species Ligidium deltodontum Li, 2017
- Species Ligidium denticulatum Shen, 1949
- Species Ligidium duospinatum Li, 2022
- Species Ligidium enotahensis Recuero & Caterino, 2025
- Species Ligidium euboicum Matsakis, 1975
- Species Ligidium floridanum Schultz & Johnson, 1984
- Species Ligidium formosanum Wang & Kwon, 1993
- Species Ligidium fragile Budde-Lund, 1885
- Species Ligidium gadalutsi Recuero & Caterino, 2025
- Species Ligidium germanicum Verhoeff, 1901
- Species Ligidium ghigii Arcangeli, 1928
- Species Ligidium gracilentum Li, 2017
- Species Ligidium hoberlandti Frankenberger, 1950
- Species Ligidium hypnorum (Cuvier, 1792)
- Species Ligidium inerme Nunomura & Xie, 2000
- Species Ligidium intermedium Radu, 1950
- Species Ligidium iyoense Nunomura, 1983
- Species Ligidium japonicum Verhoeff, 1918
- Species Ligidium jiuzhai Tang & Zhou, 1999
- Species Ligidium kiyosumiense Nunomura, 1983
- Species Ligidium kofoidi Maloney, 1930
- Species Ligidium koreanum Flasarova, 1972
- Species Ligidium lapetum Mulaik in Mulaik & Mulaik, 1942
- Species Ligidium latum Jackson, 1923
- Species Ligidium longisetosum Verhoeff & Strouhal, 1967
- Species Ligidium margaritae Borutzky, 1955
- Species Ligidium mimense Nunomura & Xie, 2000
- Species Ligidium mucronatum Mulaik in Mulaik & Mulaik, 1942
- Species Ligidium mylonasi Sfenthourakis, 1992
- Species Ligidium nantahala Recuero & Caterino, 2025
- Species Ligidium nodulosum Verhoeff, 1918
- Species Ligidium pacolet Recuero & Caterino, 2025
- Species Ligidium paulum Nunomura, 1976
- Species Ligidium polyacanthum Li, 2017
- Species Ligidium protuberans Recuero & Caterino, 2025
- Species Ligidium riparum Verhoeff, 1943
- Species Ligidium rotundum Li, 2022
- Species Ligidium ryukyuense Nunomura, 1983
- Species Ligidium schultzi Recuero & Caterino, 2025
- Species Ligidium shadini Borutzky, 1948
- Species Ligidium sichuanense Nunomura, 2002
- Species Ligidium tauricum Verhoeff, 1930
- Species Ligidium tridentatum Li, 2022
- Species Ligidium trispinosus Tang, Gui & Wu, 1994
- Species Ligidium tschatcalicum Borutzky, 1976
- Species Ligidium turcicorum Verhoeff, 1949
- Species Ligidium watanabei Nunomura, 2002
- Species Ligidium werneri Strouhal, 1937
- Species Ligidium whiteoak Recuero & Caterino, 2025
- Species Ligidium zaitzevi Borutzky, 1950
- Species Ligidium zernovi Borutzky, 1948
- Subgenus Ligidium (Ligidium) Brandt, 1833 accepted as Ligidium Brandt, 1833 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) assimile Strouhal, 1971 accepted as Ligidium assimile Strouhal, 1971
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) beieri Strouhal, 1928 accepted as Ligidium beieri Strouhal, 1928
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) birsteini Borutzky, 1950 accepted as Ligidium birsteini Borutzky, 1950
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) bosniense Verhoeff, 1901 accepted as Ligidium bosniense Verhoeff, 1901 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) epirense Strouhal, 1954 accepted as Ligidium beieri Strouhal, 1928 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) euxinum Verhoeff, 1918 accepted as Ligidium fragile Budde-Lund, 1885 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) hypnorum (Cuvier, 1792) accepted as Ligidium hypnorum (Cuvier, 1792) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) japonicum Verhoeff, 1918 accepted as Ligidium japonicum Verhoeff, 1918 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) longisetosum Verhoeff & Strouhal, 1967 accepted as Ligidium longisetosum Verhoeff & Strouhal, 1967
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) nodulosum Verhoeff, 1918 accepted as Ligidium nodulosum Verhoeff, 1918 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) shadini Borutzky, 1948 accepted as Ligidium shadini Borutzky, 1948
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) tschatcalicum Borutzky, 1976 accepted as Ligidium tschatcalicum Borutzky, 1976
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) werneri Strouhal, 1937 accepted as Ligidium werneri Strouhal, 1937
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) werneri Strouhal, 1936 accepted as Ligidium (Ligidium) werneri Strouhal, 1937 accepted as Ligidium werneri Strouhal, 1937 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) zaitzevi Borutzky, 1950 accepted as Ligidium zaitzevi Borutzky, 1950
- Species Ligidium (Ligidium) zernovi Borutzky, 1948 accepted as Ligidium zernovi Borutzky, 1948
- Subgenus Ligidium (Nippoligidium) Borutzky, 1950 accepted as Ligidium Brandt, 1833 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium (Nippoligidium) japonicum Verhoeff, 1918 accepted as Ligidium japonicum Verhoeff, 1918 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Ligidium (Typhloligidium) Verhoeff, 1918 accepted as Typhloligidium Verhoeff, 1918 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Ligidium amethystinum Schöbl, 1861 accepted as Ligidium hypnorum (Cuvier, 1792) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium asiaeminoris Verhoeff, 1941 accepted as Ligidium tauricum Verhoeff, 1930 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium carpathicum Verhoeff, 1937 accepted as Ligidium hypnorum (Cuvier, 1792) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium cavaticum Borutzky, 1950 accepted as Ligidium (Stygoligidium) cavaticum Borutzky, 1950 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Ligidium coecum Carl, 1904 accepted as Typhloligidium coecum (Carl, 1904) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Ligidium cursorium Budde-Lund, 1885 accepted as Ligidium hypnorum (Cuvier, 1792) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium epirense Strouhal, 1954 accepted as Ligidium beieri Strouhal, 1928 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium golemanskii Schmalfuss, 2003 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Ligidium herzegowinense Verhoeff, 1901 accepted as Ligidium germanicum Verhoeff, 1901 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium longicaudatum Stoller, 1902 accepted as Ligidium elrodii (Packard, 1873) represented as Ligidium elrodii elrodii (Packard, 1873) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium malickyi Schmalfuss, 1979 accepted as Ligidium cycladicum Matsakis, 1978 represented as Ligidium cycladicum cycladicum Matsakis, 1978 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium persoonii Brandt, 1833 accepted as Ligidium hypnorum (Cuvier, 1792) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium silvaenigrae Verhoeff, 1937 accepted as Ligidium hypnorum (Cuvier, 1792) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium speciosum Korčagin in Bogdanov, 1886 (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Ligidium splendidum Strouhal, 1940 † (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Ligidium tenue Budde-Lund, 1885 accepted as Ligidium gracile (Dana, 1854) represented as Ligidium gracile gracile (Dana, 1854) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ligidium cycladicum Matsakis, 1978 represented as Ligidium cycladicum cycladicum Matsakis, 1978
- Species Ligidium elrodii (Packard, 1873) represented as Ligidium elrodii elrodii (Packard, 1873)
- Species Ligidium gracile (Dana, 1854) represented as Ligidium gracile gracile (Dana, 1854)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Brandt, J. F. (1833). Conspectus monographiae crustaceorum oniscodorum Latreillii. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.</em> 6: 171-193, pl. 4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989307 [details] 
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. Ligidium Brandt, 1833. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=248907 on 2025-05-01
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Brandt, J. F. (1833). Conspectus monographiae crustaceorum oniscodorum Latreillii. <em>Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou.</em> 6: 171-193, pl. 4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45989307 [details] 
original description (of Euphiloscia Packard, 1873) Packard, A. S., Jr. (1873). On the cave fauna of Indiana. <em>Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science for the Year 1872.</em> 5: 93-97. [details]
original description (of Zia C. Koch, 1841) Koch, C. L. (1841). Deutschlands Crustaceen, Arachniden und Myriopoden. 34. Regensburg. [details]
original description (of Epimeridium Verhoeff & Strouhal, 1967) Verhoeff, K. W.; Strouhal, H. (1967). Isopoda terrestria der Türkei, 4. Aufsatz, und über Anpassungen an die Volvation bei den Kuglerfamilien Armadillidiidae, Eubelidae und Armadillidae. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere.</em> 93: 465-506. [details] Available for editors
original description (of Ligidium (Nippoligidium) Borutzky, 1950) Borutzky, E. V. (1950). Bioseleologijai sovetj XII. Nazemnyje Isopoda peschtscher Kavkaza i Kryma. I. sem. Ligiidae [Soviet Biospeleology XII. Terrestrial Isopoda in the caves of the Caucasus and the Crimea. I. Fam. Ligiidae]. <em>Moskovskoe Obshchestvo li︠u︡biteleĭ Prirody [Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou].</em> 55(5): 69-81, 1 pl. [in Russian]. [details] Available for editors
basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]
original description (of Euphiloscia Packard, 1873) Packard, A. S., Jr. (1873). On the cave fauna of Indiana. <em>Fifth Annual Report of the Trustees of the Peabody Academy of Science for the Year 1872.</em> 5: 93-97. [details]
original description (of Zia C. Koch, 1841) Koch, C. L. (1841). Deutschlands Crustaceen, Arachniden und Myriopoden. 34. Regensburg. [details]
original description (of Epimeridium Verhoeff & Strouhal, 1967) Verhoeff, K. W.; Strouhal, H. (1967). Isopoda terrestria der Türkei, 4. Aufsatz, und über Anpassungen an die Volvation bei den Kuglerfamilien Armadillidiidae, Eubelidae und Armadillidae. <em>Zoologische Jahrbücher, Abteilung für Systematik, Ökologie und Geographie der Tiere.</em> 93: 465-506. [details] Available for editors

original description (of Ligidium (Nippoligidium) Borutzky, 1950) Borutzky, E. V. (1950). Bioseleologijai sovetj XII. Nazemnyje Isopoda peschtscher Kavkaza i Kryma. I. sem. Ligiidae [Soviet Biospeleology XII. Terrestrial Isopoda in the caves of the Caucasus and the Crimea. I. Fam. Ligiidae]. <em>Moskovskoe Obshchestvo li︠u︡biteleĭ Prirody [Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou].</em> 55(5): 69-81, 1 pl. [in Russian]. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]



