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

Aegidae White, 1850

Rank: Family
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Aega Leach, 1816
Aegapheles Bruce, 2009
Aegiochus Bovallius, 1885
Alitropus H. Milne Edwards, 1840
Rocinela Leach, 1818
Syscenus Harger, 1880
Xenuraega Tattersall, 1909

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Japanese: グソクムシ科

Literature

original description	White, A. (1850). List of the Specimens of British Animals in the Collection of the British Museum. Part IV.—Crustacea. London: British Museum. i-iv + 1-141.
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	Brandt, A.; Poore, G. C. B. (2003). Higher classification of the flabelliferan and related Isopoda based on a reappraisal of relationships. Invertebrate Systematics. 17: 893-923.
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].
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. Aegidae White, 1850. 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:118272