WoRMS taxon details
Aega semicarinata Miers, 1875
AphiaID: 256435
AphiaID: 256435
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Cymothooidea (Superfamily) > Aegidae (Family) > Aega (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Aega Leach, 1815 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Aega bicavata Nordenstam, 1930 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Miers, E. J. (1875) Descriptions of three additional species of Crustacea from Kerguelen's Land and Crozet Island, with remarks upon the genus Paramoera. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (4) 16: 115-118. [details] basis of record: 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: 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] original description (from synonym): Nordenstam, A. (1930) Tanaidacea and marine isopoda from Juan Fernandez. In C. Skottsberg The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island. 3: 525-552 [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Cape Horn [details] Cape Point [details] Chilean Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Crozet Islands [details] Falkland Islands [details] Marion Bay [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South African Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Aegoniscus gigas Barnard, 1925 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Isopod Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Depth range: 45-400 [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] type locality: Kerguelen Is. [details] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256435 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2013). Aega semicarinata Miers, 1875. 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=256435 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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