Alona_(crustacean)

<i>Alona</i> (crustacean)

Alona (crustacean)

Genus of small freshwater animals

For other uses, see Alona (disambiguation).

Alona is a genus of cladocerans in the family Chydoridae. It is one of the largest genera of Cladocera,[1] and is widely believed to be an artificial group which is in need of systematic revision; the type species is Alona quadrangularis.[2] Around 240 names at the species level have been described in Alona; it is unclear how many of these are valid, or how they are related.[3]

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Species currently assigned to the genus Alona include:

See also

References

  1. [1]
    Artem Y. Sinev (2009). "Notes on morphology and taxonomic status of some North American species of the genus Alona Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae)" (PDF). Fundamental and Applied Limnology. 175 (1): 59–77. doi:10.1127/1863-9135/2009/0175-0059.
  2. [2]
    Kay Van Damme & Henri J. Dumont (2007). "The 'true' genus Alona Baird, 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Anomopoda): position of the A. quadrangularis-group and description of a new species from the Democratic Republic of Congo" (PDF). Zootaxa. 1943: 1–25.
  3. [3]
    Kay Van Damme, Alexey A. Kotov & Henri J. Dumont (2010). "A checklist of names in Alona Baird 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Chydoridae) and their current status: an analysis of the taxonomy of a lump genus" (PDF). Zootaxa. 2330: 1–63. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.2330.1.1. ISBN 978-1-86977-456-1.


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