World List of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans

Isopoda taxon details

Ligia australiensis Dana, 1853

AphiaID

257535 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:257535)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ligia Fabricius, 1798

Original name

Lygia australiensis Dana, 1853

Synonymised names

Lygia australiensis Dana, 1853 · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (misspelling of genus name)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Lygia australiensis Dana, 1853) Dana, J.D. (1853 - 1855). Crustacea. Part II. In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia. 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Type data

Note Australia

type locality Australia [details]

Taxonomic citation

Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Ligia australiensis Dana, 1853. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/isopoda/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=257535 on 2026-10-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-01-03 13:02:48Z

created

Schotte, Marilyn

2016-08-28 14:18:49Z

changed

Taiti, Stefano

2017-02-21 21:25:00Z

changed

Taiti, Stefano

2019-06-17 00:57:46Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2023-12-26 23:08:38Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description (of Lygia australiensis Dana, 1853) Dana, J.D. (1853 - 1855). Crustacea. Part II. In: United States Exploring Expedition. During the years 1838, 1839, 1840, 1841, 1842. Under the command of Charles Wilkes. U. S. N., C. Sherman Printer, Philadelphia. 14: 691-1618. [1855, folio atlas pls. 1-96.]. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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]

additional source Schmalfuss, H. (2003). World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie A (Biologie). 654: 1-341., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60882444 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

type locality Australia [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Arthropoda Collection (1 record)
To ITIS