Aloninae

Pascual, Jhaydee Ann F., Rizo, Eric Zeus C., Han, Boping, Dumont, Henri J. & Papa, Rey Donne S., 2014, Taxonomy and distribution of four Cladoceran families (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Moinidae, Bosminidae, Chydoridae and Sididae) in Philippine inland waters, Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62, pp. 771-794 : 776

Subfamily Aloninae Genus Alona Baird 1843

Body oval to elliptical curved to moderately convex; ventral valve margins with rows of setae in similar sizes. Head shield with two main head pores connected and circular lateral pores. Ocellus smaller than the eye. Well-developed blunt rostrum. Two antennular aesthetes projecting from the rostrum. Labral plate variable Swimming antennae with well- developed spines. Post abdomen narrow to broad with several variably sized anal denticles with setules. Genus considered as a complex group and are still being separated into several genera.