Species Aega serripes Milne Edwards, 1840

Museums

Regional Maps

• Aega serripes Milne Edwards, H. 1840. Histoire Naturelle des Crustacés, comprenant l'anatomie, la physiologie et la classification de ces animaux. Paris : Librairie Encyclopédique de Roret Vol. 3 220 acompagnée de planches. [241].

  Type data:

   Syntype(s) MNHP, Australasia.
• Aega meinerti Miers, E.J. 1884. Crustacea. pp. 178-322 in Anon. (ed.). Report of the Zoological Collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of HMS 'Alert', 1881–1882. London : British Museum (Natural History). [305].

  Type data:

   Holotype BMNH 1858.72 ♂, King George Sound, WA.

 

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Bruce, N.L. 1983. Aegidae (Isopoda: Crustacea) from Australia with descriptions of three new species. Journal of Natural History 17: 757-788 [758]

 

Distribution

States

New South Wales, South Australia, Tasmania, Western Australia

Extra Distribution Information

Japan.

IBRA and IMCRA regions

drainage basins and coastal and oceanic zones

IMCRA

Southwest Shelf Province (31), Spencer Gulf Shelf Province (33), Western Bass Strait Shelf Transition (34), Bass Strait Shelf Province (35), Tasmanian Shelf Province (36), Southeast Shelf Transition (37), Central Eastern Shelf Province (38)

Original AFD Distribution Data

Australian Region

• Australia
  • 200 m bathymetric: Bass Strait, Lower E coast, S Gulfs coast, SW coast, Tas. Coast
  • Tasmania

Ecological Descriptors

Continental shelf, marine.

 

General References

Hale, H.M. 1925. Review of Australian isopods of the cymothoid group. Pt I. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 49: 128-185 (redescription)

 

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