Species Aega monophthalma Johnston, 1834

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aega monophthalma Johnston, G. 1834. Illustrations in British Zoology. Loudon's Magazine of Natural History 7: 230-235 [233].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1979.299.1, Berwick Bay, Northumberland, England.

  Secondary source:

   Ellis, J. 1981. Some type specimens of Isopoda (Flabellifera) in the British Museum (Natural History), and the isopods in the Linnaean Collection. Bulletin of the British Museum (Natural History) Zoology 40: 121-128.

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, Queensland

Extra Distribution Information

N and S Pacific Ocean, N Atlantic Ocean, South Africa.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Timor Transition (1), Central Eastern Province (12), Northern Shelf Province (25), Northwest Shelf Transition (26), Northwest Shelf Province (27), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38), Central Eastern Shelf Transition (39), Northeast Shelf Province (40), Northeast Shelf Transition (41)

Ecological Descriptors

Marine.

 

General References

Bruce, N.L. 2002. Crustacea: Malacostraca: Syncarida, Peracarida: Isopoda, Tanaidacea, Mictacea, Thermosbaenacea, Spelaeogriphacea. In Houston, W.W.K. & Beesley, P.L. (eds) Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 19.2A. Melbourne : CSIRO Publishing, Australia. xii 434 pp. (first Australian record)

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

Kussakin, O.G. 1979. Marine and brackish-water Crustacea (Isopoda) of cold and temperate waters of the Northern Hemisphere Suborder Flabellifera. Opredeliteli po Faune SSSR 122: 1-472 [in Russian] (literature, figures)

 

History of changes

Published	As part of group	Action Date	Action Type	Compiler(s)
05-Aug-2022		05-Mar-2012	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		06-May-2011	MODIFIED
05-Aug-2022		29-Jun-2010	MODIFIED
		29-Mar-2010	MODIFIED