Poorea Edgar, 2012

Leptochelia (in part): Bamber (2005): 692 –697, figs 40–42; Bamber (2008): 198 –202, figs 33–35, Guţu & Iliffe (2011): 353 – 361, figs 1–4. Poorea: Edgar (2012): 19.

Remarks. An Indo-Pacific genus per its recent classification with seven species (Guţu 2016), enlarged from the original three (Edgar 2012). It is characterised primarily by the males’ relatively short antennule articles 1–2 and stout chelipeds resembling those of the females, with a vertical/near vertical spine comb on the mesial margin of the palm (propodus). As Guţu admits, there remains a significant amount of variation in cheliped and pereopod setation within the genus and some doubt about its species composition. A difficulty is that the generic diagnosis was formulated on a male ( P. wrighti) and female ( P. nobbi Bamber, 2005) of different species

However, a leptocheliid species from Rapa Iti collected during the SFPE-2014 appears to conform to Edgar’s and Guţu’s concepts of Poorea, including an inferodistal spine on the merus of pereopods 2 – 3, a character present in most of the species described so far.