Base colour white. Pereopods with transverse red and white bands. Carapace with diffuse orange-red markings, darkest on peaks of transverse ridges.

From the Latin procerus, slender, alluding to the very slender chelipeds that distinguish the species from A. soelae.

Eastern Australia, the Lord Howe Rise, and New Caledonia; 450–960 m.

Holotype, female, AM P25095.

Agononida soelae. — Macpherson, 1994: 530 (New Caledonia, 530–650 m) (not A. soelae (Baba, 1986)).
Agononida procera Ahyong & Poore, 2004b: 10, fig. 1 (Queensland and New South Wales, 675–824 m). — Poore, 2004: 231, fig. 63c (compilation). — Baba, 2005: 236 (key, synonymies). — Ahyong, 2007: 13, fig. 6E (Lord Howe Rise, 565–960 m).

Eastern Australia, the Lord Howe Rise, and New Caledonia; 450–960 m.

New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone

Females 14.3–21.4 mm.

Known from seamounts and knolls

Depth range based on 10 specimens in 1 taxon.
Water temperature and chemistry ranges based on 10 samples.

Environmental ranges
  Depth range (m): 530 - 823
  Temperature range (°C): 6.112 - 11.203
  Nitrate (umol/L): 16.494 - 34.602
  Salinity (PPS): 34.399 - 34.913
  Oxygen (ml/l): 2.153 - 4.573
  Phosphate (umol/l): 1.249 - 2.494
  Silicate (umol/l): 8.791 - 73.996

Graphical representation

Depth range (m): 530 - 823

Temperature range (°C): 6.112 - 11.203

Nitrate (umol/L): 16.494 - 34.602

Salinity (PPS): 34.399 - 34.913

Oxygen (ml/l): 2.153 - 4.573

Phosphate (umol/l): 1.249 - 2.494

Silicate (umol/l): 8.791 - 73.996
 
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The following is a representative barcode sequence, the centroid of all available sequences for this species.


There are 2 barcode sequences available from BOLD and GenBank.  Below is a sequence of the barcode region Cytochrome oxidase subunit 1 (COI or COX1) from a member of the species.  See the BOLD taxonomy browser for more complete information about this specimen and other sequences.


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