WoRMS taxon details
Aega Leach, 1815
AphiaID: 118394
AphiaID: 118394
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Cymothooidea (Superfamily) > Aegidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Aega psora (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Aegidae White, 1850 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Aegacylla Dana, 1852 Pterelas Guérin-Méneville, 1836 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: NODC (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes [details] additional source: 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., available online at http://invertebrates.si.edu/isopod/ [details] additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Poore, G.C.B.; Bruce, N. (2009). Isopoda (Crustacea). In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp [details] redescription: Bruce, N.L. (2009) The marine fauna of New Zealand: Isopoda, Aegidae (Crustacea). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 122: 1-252 [details] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Aega acuminata Hansen, 1897 Species Aega acuticauda Richardson, 1910 Species Aega affinis Milne Edwards, 1840 Species Aega angustata Whitelegge, 1901 Species Aega antennata Richardson, 1910 Species Aega antillensis Schioedte & Meinert, 1879 Species Aega approximata Richardson, 1910 Species Aega bicarinata Leach, 1818 Species Aega chelipous Barnard, 1960 Species Aega concinna Hale, 1940 Species Aega crenulata Lutken, 1859 Species Aega dofleini Thielemann, 1910 Species Aega ecarinata Richardson, 1898 Species Aega falcata Kensley & Chan, 2001 Species Aega falklandica Kussakin, 1967 Species Aega gracilipes Hansen, 1895 Species Aega hamiota Bruce, 2004 Species Aega hirsuta Schiödte & Meinert, 1879 Species Aega komai Bruce, 1996 Species Aega lecontii (Dana, 1853) Species Aega leptonica Bruce, 1988 Species Aega magnifica (Dana, 1853) Species Aega maxima Hansen, 1897 Species Aega megalops Norman & Stebbing, 1886 Species Aega microphthalma Dana, 1853 Species Aega monophthalma Johnston, 1834 Species Aega nanhaiensis Yu, 2007 Species Aega platyantennata Nunomura, 1993 Species Aega psora (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Aega punctulata Miers, 1881 Species Aega semicarinata Miers, 1875 Species Aega serripes H. Milne Edwards, 1840 Species Aega sheni Yu & Bruce, 2006 Species Aega stevelowei Bruce, 2009 Species Aega tridens Leach, 1815 Species Aega truncata Richardson, 1910 Species Aega urotoma Barnard, 1914 Species Aega webbii (Guérin-Méneville, 1836) Species Aega whanui Bruce, 2009 Species Aega efferata Dana, 1853 (nomen dubium) Species Aega novizealandiae Dana, 1853 (nomen dubium) Species Aega rosacea (Risso, 1816) (nomen dubium) Species Aega hirta White, 1847 (nomen nudum) Subgenus Aega (Rhamphion) accepted as Aegiochus Bovallius, 1885
Species Aega belliceps Stimpson, 1864 accepted as Rocinela belliceps (Stimpson, 1864) Species Aega bicavata Nordenstam, 1930 accepted as Aega semicarinata Miers, 1875 Species Aega concharum Stimpson, 1853 accepted as Politolana concharum (Stimpson, 1853) Species Aega dubia Richardson, 1910 accepted as Aegiochus vigilans (Haswell, 1881) Species Aega edwardsi Dollfus, 1891 accepted as Aega punctulata Miers, 1881 Species Aega emarginata Leach, 1818 accepted as Aega psora (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Aega giganteocula Nunomura, 1988 accepted as Aegiochus vigilans (Haswell, 1881) Species Aega harfordi Lockington, 1877 accepted as Cirolana harfordi (Lockington, 1877) Species Aega koltuni Kussakin, 1967 accepted as Aegiochus antarctica (Hodgson, 1910) Species Aega loveni Bovallius, 1886 accepted as Aegiochus ventrosa (M. Sars, 1859) Species Aega macronema Bleeker, 1857 accepted as Argathona macronema (Bleeker, 1857) Species Aega nordenskjoldii Bovallius, 1885 accepted as Aegiochus ventrosa (M. Sars, 1859) Species Aega ommataphylax Stebbing, 1905 accepted as Aegiochus vigilans (Haswell, 1881) Species Aega ornata Richardson, 1911 accepted as Tridentella ornata (Richardson, 1911) Species Aega polita Stimpson, 1853 accepted as Politolana polita (Stimpson, 1853) Species Aega sarsae Brandt & Andres, 2008 accepted as Aegiochus sarsae (Brandt & Andres, 2008) Species Aega schioedteana Bovallius, 1885 accepted as Aegapheles deshaysiana (H. Milne Edwards, 1840) Species Aega stroemii Lutken, 1859 accepted as Aega bicarinata Leach, 1818 Species Aega ventrosa M. Sars, 1859 accepted as Aegiochus ventrosa (M. Sars, 1859) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Pacific part] [details] FAO fishing area 67 [details] North East Pacific [details] North Pacific [details] World Oceans [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Feeding: Micropredator of fishes. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118394 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2013). Aega Leach, 1815. In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2013) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118394 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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