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Genus Ligidium

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Woodlouse - Ligidium gracile Trichoniscidae? - Ligidium Philosciidae? - Ligidium gracile L. blueridgensis - Ligidium blueridgensis Rock Slater, Ligidium cf gracile - Ligidium gracile Ligidium elrodii ? - Ligidium elrodii Crustacean - Ligidium blueridgensis Ligidium blueridgensis? - Ligidium blueridgensis

Classification

Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Crustacea (Crustaceans)
Class Malacostraca (Malacostracans)
Superorder Peracarida (Marsupial Crustaceans)
Order Isopoda (Isopods)
No Taxon (Scutocoxifera)
Suborder Oniscidea (Woodlice)
Infraorder Diplocheta
Family Ligiidae (Seaslaters and Rockslaters)
Genus Ligidium

Explanation of Names

Ligidium Brandt 1833

Numbers

8 spp. in our area(1), ~55 total(2)

Range

in our area, L. elrodii northeastern, 3 spp. se. US, L. gracile rather widespread in the west, and 3 spp. restricted to CA(1)

Works Cited

1.Checklist of the terrestrial isopods of the New World (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea)
Leistikow A., Wägele J.W. 1999. Rev. Bras. Zool. 16: 1‒72.
2.Boyko et al. (Eds) (2008-) World marine, freshwater and terrestrial isopod crustaceans database
Contributed by john and jane balaban on 22 March, 2009 - 4:53pm
Additional contributions by Beatriz Moisset, v belov
Last updated 9 September, 2021 - 7:06pm

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