Ligia hawaiensis

About Ligia hawaiensis

Ligia hawaiensis is an isopod crustacean in the family Ligiidae. Its current scientific name is cited as Ligia hawaiensis Dana, 1853. Published sources characterize its origin status as native Hawaiian. Published Kauaʻi evidence documents the species from Kauaʻi. The cited evidence includes records dated or referenced to 1996. Evidence types include island checklist and distribution table. These records establish a documented Kauaʻi occurrence but are not automatically interpreted as a present-day abundance estimate. The documented Kauaʻi habitat context includes supralittoral / terrestrial coastal. For current-status context, documented historically on Kauaʻi; current abundance not reassessed. The available Kauaʻi evidence does not support adding island-specific claims about diet, reproduction, behavior, population size, or trend unless those points are stated in the cited sources, so they are not inferred here. Keeping the accepted taxonomic concept together with the dated occurrence evidence allows later surveys to distinguish historical documentation from contemporary status.