Poorea Edgar, 2012

Bird, Graham J., 2019, Tanaidacea (Crustacea: Peracarida) from the Southern French Polynesia Expedition, 2014. I. Tanaidomorpha, Zootaxa 4548 (1), pp. 1-75 : 26

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.