Ligidium

Ligidium
Ligidium japonicum
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Ligiidae
Genus: Ligidium
Brandt, 1833 
Species

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Ligidium is a genus of woodlice. It contains about 68 species, six of which are probably taxonomic synonyms of Ligidium hypnorum or Ligidium germanicum. Of the remainder, 18 species are found in North America, six in Japan, two in Taiwan, four in China, 12 in Turkey, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, and six in Greece.

The following is an incomplete list of Ligidium species:

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) — revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 341 pp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-24. Retrieved 2009-12-07.
  2. 1 2 3 Recuero, Ernesto; Caterino, Michael S. (2025-02-07). "Is there anybody (new) out there? Seven new species of Ligidium (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Ligiidae) from the Southern Appalachians, eastern North America". European Journal of Taxonomy (976): 133–170. doi:10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2783. ISSN 2118-9773.
  3. ↑ Wang, Jin; Yang, Jingbo; Zeng, Xuegang; Li, Weichun (2022). "Integrative taxonomy on the rare sky-island Ligidium species from southwest China (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Ligiidae)". BMC Zoology. 7 (1). doi:10.1186/s40850-022-00120-1. ISSN 2056-3132. PMC 10127345.