Alona kotovi Sinev, 2012

Dadykin, Ivan A., Sinev, Artem Y., Gu, Yangliang & Han, Bo-Ping, 2023, Spring and autumn fauna of Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda) in the center of East Asia plain: Hunan and Hubei Provinces of China, Zootaxa 5380 (1), pp. 1-25 : 14

Alona kotovi Sinev, 2012 .

Rare in studied material, found in spring in a single lake (S6) and in autumn in a single pond (A32). A. kotovi inhabits water bodies of various types with a muddy bottom (Sinev 2012). The species is distributed in the Indo-Malaysian Region, in East Asia recorded in South Korea, Hainan Island and Yunnan Province ( Sinev et al. 2020). The first record for Central China. Earlier records of Alona s. str. from East China ( Ji et al. 2015) were attributed to Palearctic A. quadrangularis (O.F. Müller, 1776) , but all the populations from Central China probably belong to A. kotovi . For detailed description see Sinev (2012).