Species Ligia (Megaligia) exotica Roux, 1828

Museums

Regional Maps

• Ligia exotica Roux, J.L.F.P. 1828. Crustacés de la Mediterranée et de son littoral. Paris & Marseille : Publisher unknown 176 pp. [3].

  Type data:

   Status unknown, whereabouts unknown, Marseille, France.

  Type locality references:

  Budde-Lund, G. 1885. Crustacea Isopoda Terrestria per Familias et Genera et Species descripta. Hauniae : Sumtibus Auctoria 320 pp.

  Secondary source:

   Richardson, H. 1905. A monograph on the isopods of North America. Bulletin of the United States National Museum 54: I-LIII, 1-727.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Northern Territory, Queensland, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Circumtropical.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IBRA

NSW, NT, Qld, WA: Arnhem Coast (ARC), Arnhem Plateau (ARP), Avon Wheatbelt (AW), Brigalow Belt North (BBN), Brigalow Belt South (BBS), Central Arnhem (CA), Carnarvon (CAR), Central Kimberley (CK), Central Mackay Coast (CMC), Cape York Peninsula (CYP), Daly Basin (DAB), Darwin Coastal (DAC), Desert Uplands (DEU), Dampierland (DL), Einasleigh Uplands (EIU), Esperance Plains (ESP), Gascoyne (GAS), Gulf Fall and Uplands (GFU), Geraldton Sandplains (GS), Gulf Coastal (GUC), Gulf Plains (GUP), Jarrah Forest (JF), Mallee (MAL), Murchison (MUR), Northern Kimberley (NK), NSW North Coast (NNC), Ord Victoria Plain (OVP), Pine Creek (PCK), Pilbara (PIL), Sydney Basin (SB), South East Corner (SEC), South Eastern Queensland (SEQ), Swan Coastal Plain (SWA), Tiwi Cobourg (TIW), Victoria Bonaparte (VB), Warren (WAR), Wet Tropics (WT), Yalgoo (YAL)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • New South Wales: SE coastal
  • Northern Territory: N Gulf, N coastal
  • Queensland: NE coastal
  • Western Australia: N coastal, NW coastal, SW coastal

Ecological Descriptors

Supratidal, terrestrial.

 

General References

Green, A.J.A. 1962. Record of the occurrence in Australia of Ligia exotica, Roux (Crustacea, Isopoda, Oniscoidea). Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 96: 83-85 (Australian record)

Judd, S. & Perina, G. 2013. An illustrated key to the morphospecies of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea: Oniscidea) of Barrow Island, Western Australia. Records of the Western Australian Museum, Supplement 83: 185-207

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		04-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED