WoRMS taxon details
Aegidae White, 1850
118272 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118272)
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Family
Aega Leach, 1816 (type by original designation)
- Genus Aega Leach, 1816
- Genus Aegapheles Bruce, 2009
- Genus Aegiochus Bovallius, 1885
- Genus Alitropus H. Milne Edwards, 1840
- Genus Epulaega Bruce, 2009
- Genus Rocinela Leach, 1818
- Genus Syscenus Harger, 1880
- Genus Xenuraega Tattersall, 1909
- Genus Acherusia Lucas, 1849 accepted as Rocinela Leach, 1818 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Aegacylla Dana, 1854 accepted as Aega Leach, 1816 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Harponyx G. O. Sars, 1883 accepted as Syscenus Harger, 1880 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Genus Pterelas Guérin-Méneville, 1836 accepted as Aega Leach, 1816
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
White, A. (1850). List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV.—Crustacea. <em>London: British Museum.</em> i-iv + 1-141. [details] 
Boyko, C.B.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Aegidae White, 1850. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118272 on 2025-04-26
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Nomenclature
original description
White, A. (1850). List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV.—Crustacea. <em>London: British Museum.</em> i-iv + 1-141. [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, <B><I>in</I></B>: Costello, M.J. <i>et al.</i> (Ed.) (2001). <i>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,</i> 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
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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 (PeRMS)
Delgado, J. G. Z.; Conde, E. G. T.; Miranda, J. D. H. (2021). Lista sistemática de isópodos marinos del Perú, primer registro de" Isocladus bahamondei" Carvacho, 1997 (Crustacea, Peracarida) y aportes de su ecología para la costa peruana. <em>Revista de Investigaciones Marinas.</em> 41(2), 22-35. [details]
additional source 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]
additional source Brandt, A.; Poore, G. C. B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 17: 893-923. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source 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]
additional source Brandt, A.; Poore, G. C. B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 17: 893-923. [details] Available for editors
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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| Japanese | グソクムシ科 | [details] |
