Alona

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Cladus: Pancrustacea
Cladus: Allotriocarida
Classis: Branchiopoda
Superordo: Cladocera
Ordo: Anomopoda

Familia: Chydoridae
Subfamilia: Aloninae
Genus: Alona
Species: A. affinis – A. altiplana – A. anastasia – A. barbulata – A. begoniae – A. bicolor – A. borealis – A. cambouei – A. circumfimbriata – A. costata – A. guttata – A. intermedia – A. kolwezii – A. kotovi – A. lapidicola – A. margipluma – A. martensi – A. meridionalis – A. pulchella – A. quadrangularis – A. rustica – A. setigera – A. setulosa – A. smirnovi – A. yara

Transferred to Coronatella: A. monacantha –
Name

Alona Baird, 1850
Type species: Alona quadrangularis Müller, 1785

Synonyms

Biapertura Smirnov, 1971

References

Baird, W. 1850. The Natural History of the British Entomostraca. Ray Society, London. 364 pp., pls. 1–36. BHL. Reference page.
Green, J.D. 1967: Studies on the zooplankton of Lake Pupuke. Tane, 13: 77–98. BUGZ
Kattel, G.R.; Augustinus, P.C. 2010: Biogeography and taxonomy of New Zealand Cladocera (Anomopoda, Chydoridae): a review. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 40(3-4): 209–224. DOI: 10.1080/03036758.2010.512626
Kotov, A.A.; Sinev, A.Y.; Berrios, V.L. 2010: The Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) of six high altitude water bodies in the North Chilean Andes, with discussion of Andean endemism. Zootaxa, 2430: 1–66. Preview
Sinev, A.Yu 2009: Cladocerans of the Alona affinis (Leydig, 1860) group from South Africa. Zootaxa, 1990: 41–54. Abstract & excerpt
Sinev, A.Y. 2013: Cladocerans of Alona affinis group (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from North America. Zootaxa 3693(3): 329–343. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3693.3.3 Reference page.
Sinev, A.Y.; Alonso, M.; Sheveleva, N.G. 2009: New species of Alona from South-East Russia and Mongolia related to Alona salina Alonso, 1996 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae). Zootaxa, 2326: 1–23. Abstract & excerpt PDF
Sinev, A.Y. & Rivero-Blanco, C. 2018. А new species of Alona Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Chydoridae) from the ancient Lake Ohrid. Zootaxa 4526(4): 434–446. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4526.4.2 Paywall Reference page.
Sinev, A.Y.; Silva-Briano, M. 2012: Cladocerans of genus Alona Baird, 1843 (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) and related genera from Aguascalientes State, Mexico. Zootaxa 3569: 1–24. Preview Reference page.
Sinev, A.Y.; Elmoor-Loureiro, L.M.A. 2010: Three new species of chydorid cladocerans of subfamily Aloninae (Branchipoda: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Brazil. Zootaxa, 2390: 1–25. Preview
Sousa, F.D.R., Santos, S., Güntzel, A.M., Diniz, L.P., Melo Júnior, M. de & Elmoor-Loureiro, L.M.A. 2015. Description of a new species of the costata-group (Cladocera, Chydoridae, Aloninae) from Brazil. Zootaxa 4040(4): 445–457. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4040.4.4. Preview (PDF) Reference page.
Sinev, A.Y.; Kotov, A.A. 2012: New and rare Aloninae (Cladocera: Anomopoda: Chydoridae) from Indochina. Zootaxa 3334: 1–28. Preview Reference page.
Sinev, A.Y.; Zawisza, E. 2013: Comments on cladocerans of crater lakes of the Nevado de Toluca Volcano (Central Mexico), with the description of a new species, Alona manueli sp. nov. Zootaxa 3647(2): 390–400. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.10 Reference page.
Van Damme, K.; Kotov, A.A.; Dumont, H.J. 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. Zootaxa, 2330: 1–63. Preview
Van Damme, K.; Sinev, A.Y.; Dumont, H.J. 2011: Separation of Anthalona gen.n. from Alona Baird, 1843 (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Anomopoda): morphology and evolution of scraping stenothermic alonines. Zootaxa, 2875: 1–64. Preview
Webber, W.R. et al. 2010: [Chapter] EIGHT Phylum ARTHROPODA SUBPHYLUM CRUSTACEA shrimps, crabs, lobsters, barnacles, slaters, and kin. Pp. 98-232 in Gordon, D.P. (ed.): New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume 2. Kingdom Animalia. Chaetognatha, Ecdysozoa, ichnofossils. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch, New Zealand. ISBN 978-1-87725793-3

Additional references

Van Damme, K. 2016. Not “Alona” monacantha Sars, 1901, but Coronatella hardingi (Brehm, 1957) (Crustacea: Branchiopoda: Cladocera) in the Afrotropics. Zootaxa 4139(2): 221–232. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4139.2.6. Reference page.
Sinev, A.Y. 2015. Revision of the pulchella-group of Alona s. lato leads to its translocation to Ovalona Van Damme et Dumont, 2008 (Branchiopoda: Anomopoda: Chydoridae). Zootaxa 4044(4): 451–492. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4044.4.1. Preview (PDF) Reference page.

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