Chondrochelia sublitoralis, Sato & Arakawa & Kakui, 2023

Sato, Akari, Arakawa, Kazuharu & Kakui, Keiichi, 2023, Two new species in Leptocheliidae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea) from Japan, with notes on their phylogenetic position and aspects of morphology, Zoologischer Anzeiger (Zool. Anz.) 306, pp. 51-68 : 65

4.3. Morphological comparison between C. sublitoralis sp. nov. and congeners

Females of C. sublitoralis sp. nov. resemble those of C. africana , Chondrochelia corsica ( Dollfus, 1898) , Chondrochelia taitungensis ( Tzeng & Hsueh, 2015) , and Chondrochelia tanykeraia ( Bamber, 2009 in Bamber et al. [2009]) in having a slender cheliped in which the carpus has parallel dorsal and ventral margins and is two or more times as long as wide. Chondrochelia sublitoralis sp. nov. differs from these four species in the combination of seven character states ( Table 3): the combined length of article 3 and succeeding article(s) is at least 1.5 times as long as article 2, maxillipedal palp articles 2 and 4 each have one outer seta, the chelipedal merus bears one inner simple seta and the carpus two dorsal simple setae, the carpus of pereopods 4–6 has three distal spiniform setae, and the pleopodal protopod has one inner plumose seta.

Males of C. sublitoralis sp. nov. differ from those of Chondrochelia durbanensis ( Brown, 1957) , for which information on females is lacking, in having the following character states (character state of C. durbanensis in parentheses): pereopod-1 propodus lacks ventrodistal spiniform setae (one spiniform seta) and the uropodal exopod has one article (two articles).