Ligidium scottensis Schultz, 1970

Recuero, Ernesto & Caterino, Michael S., 2025, Is there anybody (new) out there? Seven new species of Ligidium (Isopoda, Oniscidea, Ligiidae) from the Southern Appalachians, eastern North America, European Journal of Taxonomy 976, pp. 133-170 : 164-165

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https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2025.976.2783

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14844866

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scientific name

Ligidium scottensis Schultz, 1970
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Ligidium scottensis Schultz, 1970

Ligidium elrodii scottensis Schultz, 1970: 41 View in CoL , figs 20–23.

Remarks

In the form of male pleopod 2 endopodite this species resembles L. gadalutsi sp. nov., but the tip is shorter and blunt, not acuminate. They also differ in the shape of male pleopod 1 endopodite.

The species is so far known only from its type locality, Coley Cave #2, in Virginia, Scott Co. (see map in Fig. 18 View Fig ).

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Malacostraca

SuperOrder

Peracarida

Order

Isopoda

SubOrder

Oniscidea

Family

Ligiidae

Genus

Ligidium

Loc

Ligidium scottensis Schultz, 1970

Recuero, Ernesto & Caterino, Michael S. 2025
2025
Loc

Ligidium elrodii scottensis

Schultz G. A. 1970: 41
1970
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