Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Arthropoda > Subphylum Crustacea > Superclass Multicrustacea > Class Malacostraca > Subclass Eumalacostraca > Superorder Peracarida > Order Isopoda > Suborder Cymothoida > Superfamily Cymothooidea > Family Aegidae

Aega Leach, 1816

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Pterelas*	Guérin-Méneville, 1836	synonym

Children

Aega affinis Milne Edwards, 1840
Aega bicarinata Leach, 1818
Aega crenulata Lutken, 1859
Aega hirsuta Schioedte & Meinert, 1879
Aega megalops Norman & Stebbing, 1886
Aega microphthalma Dana, 1853
Aega monophthalma Johnston, 1834
Aega psora (Linnaeus, 1758)
Aega rosacea (Risso, 1816)
Aega stroemii Lutken, 1859
Aega tridens Leach, 1816
Aega webbii (Guérin-Méneville, 1836)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: グソクムシ属

Literature

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.
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
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].
additional source	NODC. (1997). NODC Taxonomic codes.
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.
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.).
redescription	Bruce, N.L. (2009). The marine fauna of New Zealand: Isopoda, Aegidae (Crustacea. NIWA Biodiversity Memoir. 122: 1-252.

Genbank

Citation

Boyko, C.B.; Bruce, N.L.; Hadfield, K.A.; Merrin, K.L.; Ota, Y.; Poore, G.C.B. (Eds) (2025). World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. Aega Leach, 1816. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118394