Konarus Bamber, 2006

BAMBER, ROGER N, 2013, A re-assessment of Konarus Bamber, 2006 and sympatric leptocheliids from Australasia, and of Pseudoleptochelia Lang, 1973 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea), Zootaxa 3694 (1), pp. 1-39 : 10-11

Genus Konarus Bamber, 2006

Fig. 2

Diagnosis. Females without tubercle-mounted setae (or setose tubercles) on meri of the posterior pereopods, no distinct flagellar segment on the antennule, dorsal margin of cheliped carpus naked. Cephalothorax about as long as wide, with a distinct dorsal suture on the carapace demarcating the second thoracomere. Cheliped coxal sclerite with one or two setae, carpus with naked dorsal margin. Ischium of pereopod 1 with one seta; dorsoproximal seta on basis of pereopod 1 longer than basis width, longer distal seta of carpus of pereopod 1 as long as carpus, dactylus of pereopod 1 with proximal seta as long as or longer than dactylus; one or two setae on ischia of pereopods 2 and 3, propodi of posterior pereopods with dorsodistal setae, uropod exopod two-segmented. Body length about five to six times width. Males without carpal apophysis on cheliped, propodal ventral apophysis present or absent; dactyli of the posterior pereopods without distal setules. All pereonites wider than long. Propodus of cheliped not gaping, without distal tooth-like apophysis in gap between fingers.

Species included: Konarus cheiris Bamber, 2006 (type species); K. crassicornis ( Stebbing, 1905) ; K. straddi ( Bamber, 2008) comb. nov.; Heterotanais crassicornis sensu Nierstrasz, 1913 (non- H. crassicornis Stebbing, 1905 )

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FIGURE 2. Konarus spp., A. K. cheiris female; B, K. cheiris male; C, K. cheiris male cheliped; D, K. crassicornis female; E, K. straddi male; F, K. straddi male cheliped. (A–C after Bamber, 2006; D after Bamber & Chatterjee, 2010; E–F after Bamber, 2008).