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Aegidae
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Aegidae

The Aegidae are a family of isopod crustaceans. The adults are temporary parasites of fish, feeding on their hosts' blood before dropping off to digest the meal. They differ from members of the family Cirolanidae in having only three pairs of hook-like pereiopods, whereas in Cirolanidae all seven pairs of pereiopods are hooked. The family contains the following genera:

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8 branches of this family, most-observed first

Rocinela

genusRocinela

Aega

genusAega

Syscenus

genusSyscenus

Aegiochus

genusAegiochus

Alitropus

genusAlitropus

Aegapheles

genusAegapheles

Xenuraega

genusXenuraega

Epulaega

genusEpulaega

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 245491.