WoRMS taxon details
Epulaega fracta (Hale, 1940)
256409 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:256409)
accepted
Species
Aega fracta Hale, 1940 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
(of Aega fracta Hale, 1940) Hale, H. M. (1940) Report on the cymothoid Isopoda obtained by F.I.S. "Endeavor" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 64: 288-304. [details]
Note off Tasmania, Australia
type locality off Tasmania, Australia [details]
Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Campos-Filho, I.S.; Hadfield, K.A.; Hughes, T.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2026). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Epulaega fracta (Hale, 1940). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=256409 on 2026-06-06
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Aega fracta Hale, 1940) Hale, H. M. (1940) Report on the cymothoid Isopoda obtained by F.I.S. "Endeavor" on the coasts of Queensland, New South Wales, Victoria, Tasmania, and South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 64: 288-304. [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]
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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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]
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
type locality off Tasmania, Australia [details]
