A re-assessment of Konarus Bamber, 2006 and sympatric leptocheliids from Australasia, and of Pseudoleptochelia Lang, 1973 (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) Author BAMBER, ROGER N text Zootaxa 2013 2013-08-01 3694 1 1 39 http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.1 journal article 10.11646/zootaxa.3694.1.1 1175-5326 10098890 452C575E-A76C-4455-A8C6-67C5A365759C Konarus cheiris Bamber, 2006 Fig. 2A–C Konarus cheiris Bamber, 2006 , 7–12; figs 3–5. Pseudoleptochelia bulbus Bamber, 2006 , 16–20 (males only); fig 9. Material: One female, holotype ( MNHN .Ta895), one female , paratype ( MNHN .Ta896), one male , (previously paratype of Pseudoleptochelia bulbus ) ( MNHN .Ta901 [part]), sample LF3 ‘83’, Baie de Santal , Loyalty Islands , 20º07.27′S 167º07.34′E , 12 m depth on red algae. Two females, paratypes ( BMNH 2005.216 – 217 ) on Sargassum , one female , robust morph, paratype ( MNHN .Ta897), one male , (previously allotype of Pseudoleptochelia bulbus ) ( MNHN .Ta900), on Halimeda , Lagon, Ilot Maitre , New Caledonia , 22º19.41′S 166º20.89′E , 20 m depth 9/11/95; all coll. Ichiro Takeuchi. Remarks. Re-examination of material in the light of the comments of Bird (2011) has revealed that: • the ischium of each of pereopods 2 and 3 does appear to have only one seta, although the possibility of a second one having broken off cannot be discounted; the carpi of these pereopods may have a very small rounded distal spine, but it could not be resolved clearly at a magnification of x 640; • the dactylus of pereopod 1 has a long proximal seta (misinterpreted as being distal on the propodus in Bamber, 2006 ); • the propodi of pereopods 4 and 5 do have three dorsodistal setae, as in the original description, rather than spines as in Parakonarus ; • the carpi of the posterior pereopods have three, not four, distal molariform spines (as shown for K. straddi in Fig. 5C, D ), one inner, one outer and one ventral (the original description interpreted two ventral spines); this configuration also accords with the findings in Parakonarus . The males generally resemble those of Parakonarus species , although they are without any ventral apophysis on the cheliped carpus ( Fig. 2C ), and without distal setules on the dactyli of the posterior pereopods.