Alona (crustacean)

Alona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Branchiopoda
Order: Cladocera
Family: Chydoridae
Genus: Alona
W. Baird, 1843
Type species
Alona quadrangularis
(O. F. Müller, 1776)

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]

External identifiers for Alona
Encyclopedia of Life 14752
ITIS 83974
NCBI 362317
WoRMS 148383
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Species currently assigned to the genus Alona include:

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