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Aegiochus vigilans (Haswell, 1881) 
AphiaID: 256448

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Arthropoda (Phylum) > Crustacea (Subphylum) > Malacostraca (Class) > Eumalacostraca (Subclass) > Peracarida (Superorder) > Isopoda (Order) > Cymothoida (Suborder) > Cymothooidea (Superfamily) > Aegidae (Family) > Aegiochus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Aegiochus Bovallius, 1885
Synonymised
taxa
  Aega dubia Richardson, 1910
Aega giganteocula Nunomura, 1988
Aega ommataphylax Stebbing, 1905
Rocinela vigilans Haswell, 1881 (basionym)
Sources  original description: Haswell, W. A. (1881) On some new Australian marine Isopoda. Part I. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 5(4): 470- 481. [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]

status source: Bruce, N.L. (2009) The marine fauna of New Zealand: Isopoda, Aegidae (Crustacea). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 122: 1-252 [details]

from synonym: Nunomura, N. (1988) A new species of the genus Aega (Crustacea Isopoda) from the sea off Okinawa. Bulletin of the Toyama Science Museum 12: 19-22. [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Andaman Sea [details]
Indo-West Pacific [details]
Mauritius [details]
Philippines [details]
Queensland [details]
Sri Lanka [details]
Western Australia (state) [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Notes  Depth range: shallow water on coral reefs to 271 m. [details]

type locality: Queensland, Australia [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256448
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2008-01-03 13:02:48Z  created  Schotte, Marilyn
2009-06-24 02:55:12Z  changed  Bruce, Niel L.
  
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  Citation: Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2013). Aegiochus vigilans (Haswell, 1881). 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=256448 on 2013-05-22
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