"Diplocheta" redirects here. For the superorder of millipedes in class Diplopoda, see Juliformia.
Ligiidae
Ligia oceanica
Ligidium japonicum
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Malacostraca
Superorder:
Peracarida
Order:
Isopoda
Suborder:
Oniscidea
Infraorder:
Ligiamorpha
Section:
Diplocheta Vandel, 1957 [2]
Family:
Ligiidae Leach, 1814 [1]
Ligiidae is a family of woodlice, the only family in the infraorder Diplocheta.[3][2] Its members are common on rocky shores, in similar habitats to those inhabited by species of the bristletail Petrobius and the crab Cyclograpsus.[4] The family contains these genera:[5]
^"Ligiidae Leach, 1814". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
^ ab"Diplocheta". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
^"Ligiidae". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
^Colin Little (1990). "Rocky and shingle shores as routes to land". The Terrestrial Invasion: an Ecophysiological Approach to the Origins of Land Animals. Cambridge Studies in Ecology. Cambridge University Press. pp. 148–166. ISBN 978-0-521-33669-7.
^Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 341 pp.
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