World catalog of terrestrial isopods

Sense organs: ABRAHAM & WOLSKY 1930b; HOESE 1989.
Cuticle, molt: DUDICH 1929; PATANÈ 1936a, 1951; LAGARRIGUE 1968; ŠTRUS & STORCH 1991;
ŠTRUS & COMPÈRE 1996; ZIEGLER & MILLER 1997; ŠTRUS & BLEJEC 2001.
Physiol.: SEVILLA & LAGARRIGUE 1974; DAVENPORT 1994.
Reprod.: ARCANGELI 1942a; VANDEL 1960a.
Ontog.: MATSAKIS 1955b, 1956.
Behav.: PERTTUNEN 1961; DAVENPORT 1994; SCHMALFUSS 2003b.
Ecol.: MATTHES 1956, 1986; VANDEL 1960a.
Distr.: STROUHAL 1928a; VANDEL 1948e (map), 1960a (map); PAULI 1954 (Black Sea);
SFENTHOURAKIS 1996b (Aegean); SCHMALFUSS et alii 2004 (Aegean).
Bibl.: BUDDE-LUND 1885; STROUHAL 1928a; VANDEL 1960a.
DISTR. – Coasts of Black Sea, Mediterranean Sea, Atlantic in northern Africa down to Cape
Vert, Macaronesian Islands.
Ligia kauaiensis Edmondson, 1931 = L. hawaiensis
Ligia latissima (Verhoeff, 1926)
SYN. – Euryligia l.
BIBL. – VERHOEFF 1926a (figs.); JACKSON 1941.
DISTR. – New Caledonia.
Ligia litigiosa Wahrberg, 1922
BIBL. – WAHRBERG 1922b (figs.); VAN NAME 1936; STROUHAL 1961b; SCHMALFUSS 2003b (figs.).
DISTR. – Coasts of Chile and Peru; Juan Fernández Islands.
REMARKS. – Perhaps conspecific with L. novizealandiae, compare STROUHAL 1961b.
Ligia malleata Pfeffer, 1889
BIBL. – PFEFFER 1889; JACKSON 1922.
DISTR. – East Africa: “Bagamoyo”.
REMARKS. – Possibly a synonym of L. exotica.
Ligia melanocephala C. Koch, 1838 = Ligidium hypnorum
Ligia miyakensis Nunomura, 1999
BIBL. – NUNOMURA 1999b (figs.); SAITO et alii 2000.
DISTR. – Japan: Izu Islands.
REMARKS. – Description does not allow separation from L. exotica.
Ligia muscorum Jackson, 1927 = L. platycephala
Ligia natalensis Collinge, 1920
BIBL. – COLLINGE 1920 (figs.); JACKSON 1922; BARNARD 1932 (figs.); FERRARA & TAITI 1979.
DISTR. – South Africa: southeastern coast from Knysna to Natal.
Ligia novizealandiae (Dana, 1853)
SYN. – Lygia novaezealandiae, L. porteri, quadrata
BIBL. – DANA 1853; THOMSON 1879a; BUDDE-LUND 1885; CHILTON 1901 (figs.), 1910a, 1911,
1924; JACKSON 1922, 1941; PANNING 1924; MACCAGNO 1931 (figs.); VAN NAME 1936; VANDEL
1946e, 1977a; HURLEY 1950, 1961; ANDERSSON 1960b; STROUHAL 1961b (figs.); RAMIREZ
1974; ERHARD 1996, 1997 (figs.); LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999; GREEN et alii 2002;
SCHMALFUSS 2003b.
DISTR. – New Zealand and Kermadec Islands.
REMARKS. – Some authors consider L. litigiosa a synonym or a subspecies of L.
novizealandiae.
Ligia occidentalis (Dana, 1853)
SYN. – Lygia o.
BIBL. – DANA 1853; STUXBERG 1875; BUDDE-LUND 1885; RICHARDSON 1899, 1904, 1905;
JACKSON 1922 (figs.); VAN NAME 1936, 1940; MILLER 1938; ABBOTT 1940; VANDEL 1943;
ARMITAGE 1960; MULAIK 1960; BRUSCA, G. 1966; WILSON, W. 1970; BOWMAN 1977 (figs.);
GARTHWAITE et alii 1985; GARTHWAITE & LAWSON 1992; LEISTIKOW & WÄGELE 1999; WRIGHT
et alii 2003.
DISTR. – Coasts of California (USA and Mexico).
Ligia oceanica (Linnaeus, 1767)
SYN. – L. belgica, granulata, oniscoides, scopulorum, Ligydia o., Oniscus assimilis, o.
Orig. descr.: LINNAEUS 1767 (Oniscus o.).
Descr.: VANDEL 1960a; GRUNER 1966a.
Figs.: CHILTON 1899; SARS 1899; HEWITT 1907; NICHOLLS 1931b; MEINERTZ 1932; UNWIN 1932;
HAFFNER 1937; VANDEL 1943, 1960a; GRUNER 1966a; EDWARDS 1969; MARVILLET 1972.
Syst.: GRUNER 1966a.
Phyl.: MATTERN 2003; SCHMALFUSS 2003b.
Morph.: HEWITT 1907; JACKSON 1926a, 1928a; VANDEL 1943; ALEXANDER 1969, 1972;
SCHMALFUSS 1974, 1989(figs.), 1998a; WILLOWS 1984; HOESE 1981, 1982a, 1982b, 1984d,
1989; HOLDICH 1984; ERHARD 1995a, 1995b, 1996, 1997; SCHMIDT 2002; SCHMALFUSS 2003b.
Anat.: HUET 1883; HEWITT 1907; JACKSON 1926a; NICHOLLS 1931b; HAFFNER 1937; VANDEL 1943;
SILÉN 1954a, 1954b; ROCHE 1954, 1969; ALEXANDER 1969; MARVILLET 1972; SCHMALFUSS
1974; NYLUND & TJØNNELAND 1989; ERHARD 1995a, 1997.
Mol. biol.: MICHEL-SALZAT & BOUCHON 2000; DREYER & WÄGELE 2002; MATTERN 2003.
Nervous system: ALEXANDER 1970.
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