WoRMS taxon details
Aega semicarinata Miers, 1875
256435 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256435)
accepted
Species
Aega bicavata Nordenstam, 1930 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Miers, E. J. (1875). Descriptions of three additional species of Crustacea from Kerguelen's land and Crozet Island, with remarks upon the genus Paramoera. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 16(4): 115-118., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127997 [details] 
Note Kerguelen Is.
From editor or global species database
type locality Kerguelen Is. [details]
Depth range 45-400
Depth range 45-400 [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Aega semicarinata Miers, 1875. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256435 on 2025-06-20
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Nomenclature
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. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 16(4): 115-118., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127997 [details]
original description (of Aega bicavata Nordenstam, 1930) Nordenstam, A. (1930). Tanaidacea and Marine Isopoda from Juan Fernandez. <em>Pages 525-552, In: Skottsberg, C. (ed.), The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island, Volume III. Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri AB, Uppsala.</em> [details]
basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]
original description (of Aega bicavata Nordenstam, 1930) Nordenstam, A. (1930). Tanaidacea and Marine Isopoda from Juan Fernandez. <em>Pages 525-552, In: Skottsberg, C. (ed.), The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island, Volume III. Almqvist & Wiksells Boktryckeri AB, Uppsala.</em> [details]
basis of record Schotte, M., B.F. Kensley & S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA - no longer online. [website archived on 2018-01-25]. [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Bruce, N.L. (2009). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Isopoda, Aegidae (Crustacea. <em>NIWA Biodiversity Memoir.</em> 122: 1-252. [details] Available for editors 
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context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Webber, W.R., G.D. Fenwick, J.M. Bradford-Grieve, S.G. Eagar, J.S. Buckeridge, G.C.B. Poore, E.W. Dawson, L. Watling, J.B. Jones, J.B.J. Wells, N.L. Bruce, S.T. Ahyong, K. Larsen, M.A. Chapman, J. Olesen, J.S. Ho, J.D. Green, R.J. Shiel, C.E.F. Rocha, A. Lörz, G.J. Bird & W.A. Charleston. (2010). Phylum Arthropoda Subphylum Crustacea: shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils.</em> pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
