Aega

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Cymothooidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Kingdom: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: ParaHoxozoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Mandibulata Cladus: Pancrustacea Superclassis: Multicrustacea Classis: Malacostraca Subclassis: Eumalacostraca Superordo: Peracarida Ordo: Isopoda Cladus: Scutocoxifera Subordo: Cymothoida Superfamilia: Cymothooidea

Familia: Aegidae
Genus:
Species: A. acuminata – A. acuticauda – A. affinis – A. angustata – A. antennata – A. approximata – A. bicarinata – A. chelipous – A. concinna – A. crenulata – A. dofleini – A. ecarinata – A. falcata – A. falklandica – A. hirsuta – A. komai – A. lecontii – A. magnifica – A. maxima – A. megalops – A. microphthalma – A. monophthalma – A. nanhaiensis – A. platyantennata – A. psora – A. punctulata – A. semicarinata – A. serripes – A. sheni – A. stevelowei – A. tridens – A. truncata – A. urotoma – A. webbi – A. whanui

Name

Aega Leach, 1815

Type species: Oniscus psora Linnaeus, 1758, by subsequent designation by Menzies (1962).

Synonymy

Aega Leach, 1815: 369; — Bruce, 2009: 27–28.
Pterelas Guérin-Méneville, 1836
- Type species: Pterelas webbii Guérin-Méneville, 1836, by monotypy.
Aegacylla Dana, 1854
- Type species: Aegacylla lecontii Dana, 1854, by monotypy.

References

Bruce, N.L. 2009. The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Isopoda, Aegidae (Crustacea). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 122: 1–252. PDF.Reference page.
Leach, W.E. 1816 [1815]. XXXI. A tabular view of the external characters of four classes of animals, which Linné arranged under Insecta; with the distribution of the genera composing three of these classes into orders, &c and descriptions of several new genera and species. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London 11: 306–400. BHL Reference page.