Agononida Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996

Agononida Baba & de Saint Laurent, 1996: 441 .

Remarks. The species of Agononida reported below represent the first records of the genus from New South Wales. One species, A. procera, is described as new. Agononida incerta, A. eminens and A. squamosa are already known from northern Australia (Baba 1994, Davie 2002), but A. marini is a new record for Australian waters. Two additional species of Agononida were reported from tropical Australia by Baba (1986, 1994) ( A. pilosimanus Baba, 1969, A. soelae Baba, 1986). Under the account of A. squamosa, we recognise Alcock’s (1894) Munida squamosa var. prolixa as a distinct species of Agononida . The seven species of Agononida currently known from Australia are distinguished in the key below.