Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Oniscidea > Parvorder Diplocheta > Family Ligiidae

Ligia Fabricius, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lygia*	Fabricius, 1798	synonym

Children

Ligia (Megaligia) Verhoeff, 1926
Ligia italica Fabricius, 1798
Ligia oceanica (Linnaeus, 1767)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: rock lice; sea roaches; sea-slaters; slaters sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Klippenasseln; Strandasseln sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Japanese: フナムシ属

Literature

original description	Fabricius, J.C. (1798). Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. Hafniae: Proft et Storck: 1-572.
basis of record	Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25].
additional source	NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes.
subsequent type designation	Jackson, H. G. (1922). A revision of the isopod genus Ligia (Fabricius). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1922: 683-703, pls. 1, 2.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Ligia Fabricius, 1798. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146998

Dr. Geoffrey Boxshall. Ligia Fabricius, 1798. Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at https://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/fauna-europaea/cdm_dataportal/taxon/cbe1dee1-884a-4b5c-8243-06b6ee677968