Alona Baird, 1843

Damme, Kay Van & Dumont, Henri J., 2008, The ‘ true’ genus Alona Baird, 1843 (Crustacea: Cladocera: Anomopoda): position of the A. quadrangularis-group and description of a new species from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Zootaxa 1943, pp. 1-25 : 2

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Alona Baird, 1843
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Genus Alona Baird, 1843 View in CoL View at ENA

Type species. Alona quadrangularis (O.F. Müller, 1776) View in CoL .

Type species defined by Baird (1843) for subgenus Alona Baird, 1843 View in CoL . Raised to genus level by Baird (1850). Agassiz (1846) proposed a nomenclatural correction for this taxon in his Nomenclatoris zoologici index universalis, called Halona Agassiz, 1846 emend. pro Alona Baird, 1843 View in CoL , but this is ungrounded. Alona Baird, 1843 View in CoL has priority and is retained.

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