Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Oniscidea > Family Ligiidae > Genus Ligia

Ligia exotica Roux, 1828

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

LigiaFabricius, 1798accepted genus name

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 English: wharf roach

Literature

original description

Roux, P. (1828) Crustaces de la Mediterranee et de son littoral, decrits et lithographies par lui- meme. Annales des Sciences Naturelles 16:Paris et Marseille.

basis of record

Huwae, P.; RappƩ, G. (2003). Waterpissebedden: een determineertabel voor de zoet-, brak- en zoutwaterpissebedden van Nederland en Belgiƫ. Wetenschappelijke Mededelingen van de Koninklijke Nederlandse Natuurhistorische Vereniging, 226. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-171-8. 55 pp.

additional source

Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp.

additional source

ITIS database

additional source

Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.

additional source

NODC (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes

Genbank

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Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Schotte, M. (2014). Ligia exotica Roux, 1828. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:148661

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


not marine, not brackish, not fresh, terrestrial

Importance

no data

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Last modified

2008-01-03 by Marilyn Schotte

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