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

Aegiochus aff. tara: ♀ (ovig. 27 mm), Western Indian
Ocean, off Kenya, 04°00’S, 4 °27’E, 5 March 95 ,
55 m, Galathea stn 63 (ZMUC 2803).
Aegiochus sp. ♀ (ovig. .5 mm), Japan, Okinawa, Sagami
Sea, 2 July 9 4, 400 fv, coll. Th. Mortensen
(ZMUC unreg). Not any species that I can recognise;
eyes narrowly separate, no pleotelson RS,
pleopods not digitate, but otherwise similar to
A. coroo.
Aegiochus sp. ♀ (ovig. .5 mm), Canada, British Columbia,
‘W of Snake Island, between Snake Island
and Gabriola Island, Straits of Georgia’, 4 June
9 5, c. 63 m, from sponge, coll. Th. Mortensen
(ZMUC unreg). Not any species I that I can recognise;
eyes small, similar to A. laevis, but pleotelson
RS, pleopods not digitate.
Aegiochus sp. ♂ ( .5 mm), Indonesia, Java, 07°35’N,
4°42’E, 0 April 929, 200 m, coll. Th. Mortensen
(ZMUC unreg). Not any species that I can recognise;
4 pleotelson RS, pleopods not digitate, no
RS on propodal palm of P –P3, otherwise similar
to A. laevis.
Aegiochus sp. (nov.): ♂ (9.5 mm), 3 ♀ (non- ovig 2.0,
ovig 9.3, 3.5 mm), Indonesia, Kei Islands, 2 May
922, stn 59, 385 m, coral (ZMUC unreg). Not any
species I can recognise; vaguely similar to A. coroo
but pleopods not digitate, no pleotelson RS, males
and non-ovig. with long RS P –P3, these being
shorter in ovig female.
Aegiochus vigilans (Haswell, 88 ): , Indonesia, Kei
Islands, 2 April 922, stn 6, sand, Lithothamnion,
Danske Exped. til Kei Islands, 922 (ZMUC unreg).
, Indonesia, Kei Islands, 24 April 922, stn
39, 60 m, sand, Lithothamnion, Danske Exped. til
Kei Islands, 922 (ZMUC unreg).
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Barybrotes species. At present it is accepted that the
genus is monotypic, the single species being
B. indus Schioedte and Meinert, 879a. No attempt
is made here to reassess the identity or
validity of other proposed names. ♀ (ovig. 2
mm), Cauda, Nha-Trang, 5 May 929, Dana stn
37 0 (ZMUC unreg); ♀ (ovig. with ova, 2 mm),
5th Thai–Danish Expedition, 966, stn, 022, haul
6, 4 – 966 m (ZMUC unreg); ♀ (non-ovig.,
6 mm), 5th Thai–Danish Expedition, 966, stn.
025, haul 4, 8 – 966 m [7th leg present, no
app. M.] (ZMUC unreg); manca ( .5 mm), 5th
Thai–Danish Expedition, 966, stn, 022, haul
9, 4 – 966 m [no 7th leg] (ZMUC unreg); ?( 5
mm, may be male), 4°4 ’N, 98° 3’E, 9 Nov 929,
Dana stn 3900 [pleopods too fragile to examine]
(ZMUC unreg); ♀ (non-ovig., 7.5 mm), 4°20’N,
98°47’E, 0 Nov 929, Dana stn 390 [7th leg
present, no app. M.] (ZMUC unreg); manca (9.0
mm), 4°4 ’N, 98° 3’E, 9 Nov 929, Dana stn 3900
(ZMUC unreg); manca (7.2 mm), off Mombasa,
Kenya, 22 Mar 95 Galathea stn. 259 [telson damaged]
(ZMUC unreg).
Rocinela ‘orientalis’: , Indonesia, Kei Islands, 9 May
922, stn 53, 85 m, sand, coral, Danske Exped. til
Kei Islands, 922 (ZMUC unreg).