Ligiidae

"Diplocheta" redirects here. For the superorder of millipedes in class Diplopoda, see Juliformia.

Ligiidae is a family of woodlice, the only family in the infraorder Diplocheta.^[3][1] 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]

• Caucasoligidium Borutzky, 1950
• †Eoligiiscus Sánchez-García, Peñalver, Delclos & Engel, 2021
• Ligia Fabricius, 1798
• Ligidioides Wahrberg, 1922
• Ligidium Brandt, 1833
• Tauroligidium Borutzky, 1950
• Typhloligidium Verhoeff, 1918

Ligiidae
Ligia oceanica
Ligidium japonicum
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Malacostraca
Order:	Isopoda
Suborder:	Oniscidea
Infraorder:	Ligiamorpha
Section:	Diplocheta Vandel, 1957 [1]
Family:	Ligiidae Leach, 1814 [2]

References

1. "Diplocheta". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
2. "Ligiidae Leach, 1814". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved July 28, 2011.
3. "Ligiidae". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Retrieved 2009-02-15.
4. 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.
5. Helmut Schmalfuss (2003). "World catalog of terrestrial isopods (Isopoda: Oniscidea) – revised and updated version" (PDF). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde, Serie A. 654: 341 pp.