The Marine Fauna of New Zealand: Isopoda, Aegidae (Crustacea)

Figure 83. Aegiochus pushkini (Kussakin & Vasina, 982). Male, NIWA 24008. A–D, pleopods –3, 5 respectively;
E, uropod, in situ.
Pereopod 6 similar to pereopod 7. Pereopod 7 basis 3.3
times as long as greatest width, inferior margins with
5 palmate setae; ischium .4 as long as basis, inferior
margin with 3 RS (set as and 2), superior distal angle
with 5 RS, inferior distal angle with 3 RS; merus .4
as long as ischium, 2.8 times as long as wide, inferior
margin with 3 RS (set as and 2), superior distal angle
with 0 RS, inferior distal angle with 6 RS; carpus .3
as long as ischium, 3.2 times as long as wide, inferior
margin with 3 RS (set as and 2), superior distal angle
with 9 RS, inferior distal angle with 5 RS; propodus .
as long as ischium, 3.6 times as long as wide, inferior
margin with 6 RS (set as 2, 2 and 2), superior distal
angle with 2 slender setae (and robust seta), inferior
distal angle with 3 RS.
Penes low tubercles; penial openings separated by
2% of sternal width.
Pleopod 1 exopod .7 times as long as wide, distally
broadly rounded, lateral margin straight, mesial margin
strongly convex, with PMS from distal two-thirds,
with ~60 PMS; endopod 2.2 times as long as wide,
distally rounded, lateral margin weakly concave, with
PMS from distal one-third, mesial margin with PMS
from distal one-third, endopod with ~28 PMS; pedun-
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