Ligia

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Ligia
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Ligia oceanica
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Superorder: Peracarida
Order: Isopoda
Suborder: Oniscidea
Family: Ligiidae
Genus: Ligia
Fabricius, 1798
Type species
Ligia oceanica

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 occur in high-humidity environments.

Ecology[]

Coastal Ligia species exhibit a mixture of terrestrial and marine characteristics, drying out easily, needing moist air and proximity to water to retain water. While they have gills and can exchange gas under water, they only do so when escaping terrestrial predators or being dislodged by wave action. They do not move swiftly in the water and are open to marine predation. They are well adapted to rocky surfaces and avoid sand, which opens them to terrestrial predation and desiccation.[1]

Species[]

Species separation is at times difficult because of sexual dimorphism. For example, males usually have longer and wider antennae than females. The males also tend to be larger but narrower, with the difference sometimes attributed to the female’s brood pouch.[2] Complicating matters is the possible existence of cryptic species in the genus.[3]

This is a list of all Ligia species contained in A Bibliography of Terrestrial Isopods:[4][5]

  • Ligia australiensis – Australian slater, Australia, including Tasmania and Lord Howe Island
  • Ligia baudiniana – east and west coasts of the Americas
  • – Bonin Islands, Japan
  • Ligia cajennensis – French Guiana
  • Ligia cinerascens – Hokkaido and northern Honshu, Japan, and the Kuril Islands
  • Ligia cursor – Chile
  • – Angola
  • Ligia dante – Hawai'i Island (Hawaii) [6]
  • – Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Indonesia
  • Ligia dilatata – southern Africa (Namibia and South Africa)
  • Ligia eleluensis – Maui, Hawaii [6]
  • Ligia exotica – wharf roach, introduced around the world in subtropical and warm temperate coastlines
  • – Madagascar
  • – Venezuela
  • – Southern Africa (Namibia and South Africa)
  • – west coast of Africa, Senegal to northern Angola
  • – Izu Islands, Japan
  • – Kaua'i, Hawaii [6]
  • Ligia honu – Hawaii Island, Hawaii [6]
  • – coasts of the Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic in northern Africa downsouth to Cape Verde and Macaronesia Islands
  • Ligia kamehameha – Hawaii Island, Hawaii [6]
  • – New Caledonia
  • – Chile and Peru and the Juan Fernández Islands
  • – Tanzania
  • Ligia mauinuiensis – Maui Nui Islands and Oahu, Hawaii [6]
  • – Izu Islands, Japan
  • Ligia natalensis – southeastern coast of South Africa from Knysna to Natal
  • – New Zealand and Kermadec Island
  • Ligia occidentalis – California and Baja California
  • Ligia oceanica – Atlantic Coasts of Europe, coasts of western Baltic Sea and possibly introduced to the Atlantic Coast of North America
  • Ligia pallasii – Pacific Coast of North America, the Aleutian Islands to Santa Cruz, California
  • – Christmas Island in Polynesia
  • Ligia pele – Maui, Hawai'i [6]
  • – Kaua'i and O'ahu, Hawaiian Islands
  • Ligia persica – Persian Gulf[5]
  • – southeastern Polynesia
  • – Red Sea, Persian Gulf and coast of Somalia
  • Ligia platycephala – Venezuela, Guyana and Trinidad
  • Ligia rolliensis – Oahu, Hawai'i[6]
  • – southeastern Polynesia
  • – Japan
  • – Saipan Island, Micronesia
  • – Northern Venezuela and northern Colombia
  • – Taiwan
  • – Sulawesi, Singapore, New Guinea, Melanesia, Polynesia, and possibly introduced to Somalia
  • – Tokyo
  • Ligia yemenica – Gulf of Aden[5]

References[]

  1. ^ Luis A. Hurtado, Mariana Mateos & Carlos A. Santamaria (2010). "Phylogeography of supralittoral rocky intertidal Ligia isopods in the Pacific region from central California to central Mexico". PLoS ONE. 5 (7): e11633. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0011633. PMC 2908127. PMID 20657776.
  2. ^ Harold Gordon Jackson (1922). "A revision of the isopod genus Ligia (Fabricius)". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1922: 483–1276.
  3. ^ Santamaria, Carlos A.; Bluemel, Joanna K.; Bunbury, Nancy; Curran, Melinda (2017-10-06). "Cryptic biodiversity and phylogeographic patterns of Seychellois Ligia isopods". PeerJ. 5: e3894. doi:10.7717/peerj.3894. PMC 5633021. PMID 29018626.
  4. ^ H. Schmalfuss & K. Wolf-Schwenninger (2004). "A bibliography of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscidea)" (PDF). . A. 639: 1–120.
  5. ^ a b c Khalaji-Pirbalouty, Valiallah; Wägele, Johann-Wolfgang (2010). "Two new species of Ligia Fabricius, 1798 (Crustacea: Isopoda: Ligiidae) from coasts of the Persian and Aden gulfs". Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 10 (2): 135–145. doi:10.1007/s13127-010-0003-5. S2CID 30197033.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g h Santamaria, Carlos A. (2019-08-15). "Molecular taxonomy of endemic coastal Ligia isopods from the Hawaiian Islands: re-description of L. hawaiensis and description of seven novel cryptic species". PeerJ. 7: e7531. doi:10.7717/peerj.7531. PMC 6698373. PMID 31435494.

External links[]

  • Data related to Ligia at Wikispecies
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