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Redescription of the overlooked crustacean isopod genus Xenuraega (Aegidae, Flabellifera)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Niel L. Bruce
Niel L. Bruce
Affiliation:
Queensland Museum, PO Box 3300, South Brisbane, Q 4101, Australia. Present address: Zoologisk Museum, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 15, DK 2100, København, Denmark
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The genus Xenuraega Tattersall, 1909, has been overlooked for most of this century. The rediscovery of Xenuraega now brings the number of genera of Aegidae to six. The genus and the type species X. ptilocera Tattersall, 1909, are described in detail. Xenuraega is characterized by the following apomorphies: antennal flagellum extending beyond pleotelson; mandibular incisor absent, distal mandibular margin fused to cephalon; pleon abruptly narrower than pereon, pleotelson small, not concealing pleopods; uropod exopod reduced to short stub, endopod elongate, styliform, nearly as long as body; pleopods 1–5 not contained within or concealed by pleon and pleotelson.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 73 , Issue 3 , August 1993 , pp. 617 - 625
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1993

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