Alona cambouei Guerne et Richard, 1893

Kotov, Alexey A. & Ferrari, Frank D., 2010, The taxonomic research of Jules Richard on Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) and his collection at the National Museum of Natural History, U. S. A., Zootaxa 2551 (1), pp. 37-64 : 53

28. Alona cambouei Guerne et Richard, 1893

Alona sp. ? in Guerne and Richard 1891c, p. 224.

Alona Cambouei Guerne and Richard 1893a, p. 242 –244, figs 10–11; Richard 1894a, p. 372–374, figs 5–8; Richard 1894c, p. 241; Richard 1897a, p. 289–290; figs 35–36; Sinev 2001, p. 13–17, figs 34–58.

See further synonymy in Sinev (2001).

Type locality. "... environs de Tananarive" (Guerne & Richard 1893a), Madagascar .

Richard's specimens. Two parthenogenetic females in sample DGF 1041 labelled “ Lac L'andohalo jans. Tananarive. Altitude absolute 1290 m.”. Andohalo today is an urban area within town of Antanarive ; if the type locality exists, most probably it has been significantly modified .

Only two other samples from Madagascar are listed in the catalogue, DGF 704 and DGF 972, but they contain no cladocerans.

Comments. A valid tropical-subtropical species adequately redescribed by Sinev (2001) with specimens from Sudan, Iraq and Uzbekistan. See Sinev (2001) and Van Damme et al. (2010b) for further comments.