Key to species of Heterotanoides 1. Pereopods 4–5 propodus with one superodistal spine.......................................................... 2 - Pereopods 4–5 propodus with three superodistal spines........................................................ 4 2 Antennule article-3 with two subdistal aesthetasc bundles.................................. .. H. meridionalis [female] - Antennule article-3 with subapical aesthetasc and three subterminal aesthetasc bundles.............................. 3 3 Pereopod-1 basis longer than ischium, merus and carpus combined............................. H. meridionalis [male] - Pereopod-1 basis as long as ischium, merus and carpus combined................................. H. ornatus [male?] 4. Antennule article-3 with two subterminal aesthetasc bundles; antenna article-2 slightly larger than article-3................................................................................................... H. capensis [female] - Antennule article-3 with one or two subterminal aesthetasc bundles; antenna article-2 at least twice as large as article-3.... 5 5. Antennule article-3 with one subterminal aesthetasc bundle in both male and female (one aesthetasc in female); pleonite epim- era with simple setae.......................................................................... H. cognatus - Antennule article-3 with one subterminal aesthetasc in female and two bundles [one basal in male]; pleonite epimera with sim- ple and sensory setae...................................................................... H. muimui n. sp.

Published as part of Bird, Graham J., 2012, A new leptochelioid family, Heterotanoididae (Crustacea: Peracarida: Tanaidacea), and a new species of Heterotanoides from New Zealand, pp. 1-26 in Zootaxa 3481 on page 10, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.213112