Ligia oceanica: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Malacostraca
- Order
- Isopoda
- Family
- Ligiidae
- Genus
- Ligia
- Species
- Ligia oceanica
- Scientific Name
- Ligia oceanica
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Ligia oceanica
Ligia oceanica, the sea slater, common sea slater, or sea roach, is a species of isopod in the family Ligiidae. This isopod lives in the littoral zone and is abundant on the rocky shores of the North Sea, the western Baltic Sea, and the Atlantic coasts of Europe. This isopod is the largest species in the suborder Oniscidea, reaching 35 mm in length. Phylogenetic analysis based on molecular data, however, casts doubt on the placement of this species in that suborder, suggesting that the genus Ligia is more closely related to the marine isopods in the suborders Valvifera and Sphaeromatidea than to the terrestrial woodlice in the suborder Oniscidea.
...Ligia oceanica in languages:
- Bokmål
- strandskrukketroll
- Breton
- laou-kerreg
- Danish
- Havbænkebider
- Dutch
- Havenpissenbed
- English
- Common Sea Slater
- English
- Sea Roach
- English
- Sea Slater
- French
- Ligie océanique
- German
- Klippenassel
- Portuguese
- Barata-do-mar
- Swedish
- strandgråsugga
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Ligia australiensis
- Ligia baudiniana
- Ligia cinerascens
- Ligia dentipes
- Ligia dilatata
- Ligia exotica
- Ligia glabrata
- Ligia hawaiensis
- Ligia italica
- Ligia latissima
- Ligia litigiosa
- Ligia miyakensis
- Ligia natalensis
- Ligia novizealandiae
- Ligia occidentalis
- Ligia oceanica
- Ligia pallasii
- Ligia perkinsi
- Ligia platycephala
- Ligia ryukyuensis
- Ligia taiwanensis
- Ligia vitiensis






























































































































































