Ligidium hancockensis 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

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

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14844864

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Ligidium hancockensis Schultz, 1970
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Ligidium hancockensis Schultz, 1970

Ligidium elrodii hancockensis Schultz, 1970: 41 View in CoL , figs 24–28.

Remarks

In the form of male pleopod 2 endopodite this species resembles Ligidium nantahala sp. nov., but its tip has a much shorter process and a squared section.

The species is so far known only from its type locality, Cantwell Valley Cave, Hancock Co., Tennessee (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 hancockensis Schultz, 1970

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

Ligidium elrodii hancockensis

Schultz G. A. 1970: 41
1970
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