MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Aega Leach, 1816

Deep-Sea taxon details

Aega Leach, 1816

Aega psora

AphiaID

118394 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118394)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Aegidae White, 1850

Parent

Aegidae White, 1850

Original name

Aega Leach, 1816

Direct children (24)

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Species Aega acuminata Hansen, 1897
Species Aega antennata Richardson, 1910
Species Aega approximata Richardson, 1910
Species Aega crenulata Lutken, 1859
Species Aega dofleini Thielemann, 1910
Species Aega ecarinata Richardson, 1898
Species Aega falcata Kensley & Chan, 2001
Species Aega falklandica Kussakin, 1967
Species Aega lecontii (Dana, 1854)
Species Aega maxima Hansen, 1897
Species Aega monophthalma Johnston, 1834
Species Aega psora (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Aega semicarinata Miers, 1875
Species Aega stevelowei Bruce, 2009
Species Aega webbii (Guérin-Méneville, 1836)
Species Aega whanui Bruce, 2009
Subgenus Aega (Rhamphion) Brusca, 1983 accepted as Aegiochus Bovallius, 1885 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
1. Species Aega (Rhamphion) glacialis Tattersall, 1921 accepted as Aegiochus glacialis (Tattersall, 1921)
Species Aega antillensis Schioedte & Meinert, 1879 accepted as Aegapheles antillensis (Schioedte & Meinert, 1879)
Species Aega gracilipes Hansen, 1895 accepted as Aegiochus gracilipes (Hansen, 1895)
Species Aega hamiota Bruce, 2004 accepted as Aegapheles hamiota (Bruce, 2004)
Species Aega leptonica Bruce, 1988 accepted as Aegiochus leptonica (Bruce, 1988)
Species Aega polita Stimpson, 1853 accepted as Politolana polita (Stimpson, 1853) (basionym)
Species Aega ventrosa M. Sars, 1859 accepted as Aegiochus ventrosa (M. Sars, 1859)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

Leach, W.E. (1816 [1815]). A tabular View of the external Characters of Four Classes of Animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta, with the Distribution of the Genera comprising Three of these Classes into Orders &c. and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 11(2): 306-400., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756873 [details]

Taxonomic citation

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 Leach, 1816. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118394 on 2025-06-01

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Aega Leach, 1816. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=118394 on 2025-06-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

van der Land, Jacob

2007-11-28 15:20:16Z

checked

Schotte, Marilyn

2008-02-19 22:46:23Z

changed

Bruce, Niel L.

2019-05-21 08:22:23Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

2023-03-28 02:19:15Z

changed

Boyko, Christopher B.

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original description Leach, W.E. (1816 [1815]). A tabular View of the external Characters of Four Classes of Animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta, with the Distribution of the Genera comprising Three of these Classes into Orders &c. and Descriptions of several New Genera and Species. The Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 11(2): 306-400., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/756873 [details]

basis of record van der Land, J. (2001). Isopoda - excluding Epicaridea, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). 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, 50: pp. 315-321 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes. [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 Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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. in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2010). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 2. Kingdom Animalia: Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, Ichnofossils. pp. 98-232 (COPEPODS 21 pp.). [details] Available for editors

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

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