Ligiidae is a
family
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of
woodlice
Woodlice are terrestrial isopods in the suborder Oniscidea. Their name is derived from being often found in old wood, and from louse, a parasitic insect, although woodlice are neither parasitic nor insects.
Woodlice evolved from marine isopods ...
, the only family in the infraorder Diplocheta.
Its members are common on
rocky shore
A rocky shore is an intertidal area of seacoasts where solid rock predominates. Rocky shores are biologically rich environments, and are a useful "natural laboratory" for studying intertidal ecology and other biological processes. Due to th ...
s, in similar
habitat
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s to those inhabited by species of the bristletail ''
Petrobius'' and the crab ''
Cyclograpsus''.
The family contains these genera:
*''
Caucasoligidium''
Borutzky, 1950
*†''
Eoligiiscus''
Sánchez-García, Peñalver, Delclos & Engel, 2021
*''
Ligia
''Ligia'' is a genus of isopods, commonly known as rock lice or sea slaters. Most ''Ligia'' species live in tidal zone cliffs and rocky beaches, but there are several fully terrestrial species which occur in high-humidity environments.
Ecolo ...
''
Fabricius, 1798
*''
Ligidioides''
Wahrberg, 1922
*''
Ligidium''
Brandt, 1833
*''
Tauroligidium''
Borutzky, 1950
*''
Typhloligidium''
Verhoeff, 1918
References
Woodlice
Isopod families
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