| Aeger elegans Temporal range: | |
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| Aeger elegans, the exhibit from the Museum of Natural History in Berlin (Museum für Naturkunde) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Crustacea |
| Class: | Malacostraca |
| Order: | Decapoda |
| Suborder: | Dendrobranchiata |
| Family: | † Aegeridae |
| Genus: | † Aeger |
| Species: | †A. elegans |
| Binomial name | |
| †Aeger elegans Münster, 1839 | |
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