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

Ligia oceanica (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Oniscus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ligia*	Fabricius, 1798	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Oniscus oceanica*	Linnaeus, 1767	objective synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): strandskrukketroll sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Danish: havbænkebider sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: havenpissebed sources: Eneman, E. (1984). Uit het Natuurhistorisch Archief [From the Natural History Archive]. De Strandvlo 4(1): 4-17

English: common sea slater; sea slater sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

English-United States: Common Sea Slater sources: Charles Hussey

French: ligie; ligie des rivages sources: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.;Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

German: Klippenassel sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.

Norwegian: strandskrukketroll sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: strandskrukketroll sources: Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. 572 pp. Ha

Norwegian Nynorsk: strandskrukketroll sources: Supplementum Entomologiae Systematicae. 572 pp. Ha

Nynorsk (Norwegian): strandskrukketroll sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: strandgråsugga

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327
basis of record	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	ITIS database
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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

WoRMS

External Links

GenBank (5 nucleotides; 26 proteins)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Biodiversity Heritage Library (294 publications)
Barcode of Life (3 barcodes)
GBIF
GBIF

Citation

Schotte, M. (2014). Ligia oceanica. 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:146999

Dr Geoffrey Boxshall. Ligia oceanica (Linnaeus, 1767). Accessed through: Fauna Europaea at http://www.faunaeur.org/full_results.php?id=218298