''Alona'' is a genus of
cladocera
The Diplostraca or Cladocera, commonly known as water fleas, are a superorder of small crustaceans that feed on microscopic chunks of organic matter (excluding some predatory forms).
Over 1000 species have been recognised so far, with many more ...
ns in the family
Chydoridae
Chydoridae is a family of water fleas in the order Anomopoda. There are more than 50 genera and 520 described species in Chydoridae.
Genera
These 52 genera belong to the family Chydoridae:
* '' Acroperus'' Baird, 1843
* '' Alona'' Baird, 1850
* ...
. It is one of the largest genera of Cladocera, and is widely believed to be an artificial group which is in need of systematic revision; the
type species
In zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the species that contains the biological type specimen ...
is ''
Alona quadrangularis''. 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.
Species currently assigned to the genus ''Alona'' include:
* ''
Alona hercegovinae''
Brancelj, 1990
* ''
Alona quadrangularis''
(O. F. Müller, 1776)
* ''
Alona sketi''
Brancelj, 1992
* ''
Alona smirnovi''
Petkovsky & Flossner, 1972
See also
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References
Branchiopoda genera
Cladocera
Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
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