Alona moniezi Richard, 1888

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 : 53-54

29. Alona moniezi Richard, 1888

Alona Moniezi Richard 1888a, p. 24 (nomen nudum); Richard 1888b, p. 46–47; Richard, 1888d, p. 252; Moniez 1889, p. 347.

Type locality. "environs de Vichy, puis dans un bassin du parc de M. Du Buysson à Brout-Vernet (Allier)" (Richard 1888b), France.

Syntypes in NHM. NHM 1911.11.8.28509-28513, labelled as “ Alona moniezi , Types , Vichy, France, 1888“. NHM 1911.11.8.M.4136, two females labelled as “ Alona moniezi , Types, = Lynceus rectangulus, Vichy , France, 1888“ .

Richard’s specimens in DGF. Syntypes (found here): Many females and males in the sample DGF 744 , “Chateau du Verten (Allier) (le Vernet), Alona moniezi Rich. ”. In contrast to all other samples , DGF 744

contains a label with an identification written by Richard (in the manner of his writing). So, these specimens were determined by the author of this taxon and are considered here as syntypes.

Comments. A. moniezi initially was published as a nomen nudum in a list of taxa (Richard 1888a). A formal description without illustrations was published (Richard 1888b) containing a reference to the first paper. This species belongs to the A. elegans -group which is similar to species of Coronatella Dybowski et Grochowski, 1894 . Van Damme et al. (2010a) proposed that A. moniezi may be a hybrid of A. elegans and C. rectangula .