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

Figure 30. Aega urotoma Barnard, 9 4. Female 32 mm (NMNZ Cr.9268). A–E, pleopods –5 respectively; F, uropod; G,
uropod exopod, ventral view.
Pereopod 1 basis .6 times as long as greatest width
(basis with prominent lateral carina); ischium 0.4 times
as long as basis, inferior margin with 0 RS, superior
distal margin with RS (small acute); merus inferior
margin with 3 RS (with inferior lobe), set as two groups
(of and 2), superior distal angle with RS (minute);
carpus .0 as long as merus, inferior margin with 0
RS; propodus . times as long as proximal width,
inferior margin with 0 RS, propodal palm with small
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distal lobe, dactylus abruptly hooked, .3 as long as
propodus. Pereopod 2 ischium inferior margin with
RS (round), superior distal margin with RS; merus
inferior margin with 5 RS (set as 3 + 2), set as two
groups, superior distal margin with 2 acute RS; carpus
similar in size to that of pereopod , inferodistal
angle with RS, propodus with large club-shaped
distal RS. Pereopod 3 similar to pereopod 2; ischium
inferior margin with 2 RS, propodus with large club-