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

Aegiochus ventrosa (M. Sars, 1859)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Aegiochus*	Bovallius, 1885	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Aega loveni*	Bovallius, 1886	synonym
*Aega nordenskjoldii*	Bovallius, 1885	synonym

Literature

original description	Sars, M. (1858). Oversigt over de i den norsk-arctiske Region forekommende Krebsdyr.-- Christiana Videnskabs-Selskabs Forhandlinger 1858: 122-163.
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, and S. Shilling. (1995 onwards). World list of Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Crustacea Isopoda. National Museum of Natural History Smithsonian Institution: Washington D.C., USA.
status source	Bruce, N.L. (2009) The marine fauna of New Zealand: Isopoda, Aegidae (Crustacea). NIWA Biodiversity Memoir 122: 1-252

Genbank

Taxonomy

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External Links

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Citation

Bruce, Niel L.; Schotte, M. (2014). Aegiochus ventrosa (M. Sars, 1859). In: Schotte, M.; Boyko, C.B; Bruce, N.L.; Poore, G.C.B.; Taiti, S. & Wilson, G.D.F. (Eds) (2014) World Marine, Freshwater and Terrestrial Isopod Crustaceans database. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:118831