Aloninae
Creators: name: Ghaouaci, Souad
name: Amarouayache, Mounia
name: Sinev, Artem Y.
name: Korovchinsky, Nikolai M.
name: Kotov, Alexey A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Branchiopoda
Diplostraca
Chydoridae

description: Subfamily Aloninae Dybowski et Grochowski, 1894 emend Frey, 1967
52. Acroperus angustatus Sars, 1863*, newly recorded species in Algeria (site 37), definitely known only from the Palearctic region (Sinev 2009b).
53. Acroperus harpae (Baird, 1834)*, recorded by Dumont et al. (1979), Samraoui et al. (1998) and Samraoui (2002). Definitely known only from the Palearctic region (Sinev 2009b).
54. Alona affinis (Leydig, 1860) * was recorded by Gauthier (1928a), Dumont (1979), Samraoui et al. (1998), and in this study (site 45). Distributed in Eurasia and Africa (Sinev 2009a), tropical populations need to be revised (Kotov et al. 2013b).
55. Alona elegans Kurz, 1875 * was recorded by Blanchard (1891) and Blanchard & Richard (1890, 1891), Gurney (1909), Dumont (1979, 1987), Samraoui et al. (1998) and in this study (sites 19, 46, 70, 78, 79, 82, 88). Palearctic species (Kotov et al. 2012).
56. Alona guttata Sars, 1862, recorded by Samraoui et al. (1998). Under this binomen is included a cosmopolitan species complex (Smirnov 1971) with an unresolved taxonomy; real species distribution ranges are to date unknown.
57. Alona striolata Sars, 1916, recorded by Brehm (1958) in Tassili (Sahara). It is a species inquirenda (Kotov et al. 2013a). It could be an inadequately described South African endemic species (Van Damme et al. 2010, 2013), whose presence in Algeria seems dubious.
58. Camptocercus rectirostris (Schödler, 1862) *, recorded by Gauthier (1928a, 1931, 1938). Common Palearctic species (Smirnov 1998).
59. Camptocercus uncinatus Smirnov, 1971 *, recorded by Dumont et al. (1979), Samraoui et al. (1998) and Samraoui (2002). It is distributed in East, Central and South Asia, South Europe, North-East and East Africa; in the Mediterranean region, it was also recorded from Turkey, Israel, Egypt and Italy (Kotov et al. 2012; Sinev 2014).
60. Coronatella anemae Van Damme & Dumont, 2008 *, newly recorded species in Algeria (sites 14, 88). Recorded from North – East Africa, Arabian Peninsula, and Central Asia (Van Damme & Dumont 2008).
61. Coronatella bukobensis (Weltner, 1898), recorded by Gauthier (1928a) in Oubeira Lake and in a number of other sites. Species inquirenda (Kotov et al. 2013a).
62. Coronatella rectangula (Sars, 1862) *, recorded by Gauthier (1928a, 1931), Beadle (1943), Dumont (1979), Dumont et al. (1979), Samraoui et al. (1998), Samraoui (2002) and in this study (site 65). Palearctic species (Sinev 2001a; Van Damme & Dumont 2008).
63. Graptoleberis testudinaria (Fischer, 1851), recorded by Gauthier (1928a), Dumont et al. (1979) and Samraoui et al. (1998). This taxon is regarded as cosmopolitan (Smirnov 1971), but probably represents a species complex.
64. Karualona karua (King, 1853) recorded by Gauthier (1929, 1931, 1933b) in Hoggar, and by Brehm (1958) as Alonella karua from Tassili. In fact, K. karua is not present in the Mediterranean region, being substituted here by K. iberica (Alonso & Pretus 1989). Therefore previous records need to be re-checked.
65. Leydigia acanthocercoides (Fischer, 1854)*, recorded by Gauthier (1928a) and Samraoui et al. (1998). Palearctic species (Kotov 2009).
66. Leydigia leydigi (Schödler, 1863) *, recorded by Gauthier (1928a), as Alona leydigi, and Dumont et al. (1979). Palearctic species (Kotov 2009).
67. Oxyurella tenuicaudis (Sars, 1862), recorded by Blanchard (1891) and Blanchard & Richard (1890,1891), Gauthier (1928a, 1931), Beadle (1943), Dumont (1979), Samraoui et al. (1998) and in this study (site 65). Palearctic species (Kotov et al. 2013a).
68. Ovalona azorica (Frenzel & Alonso, 1988), recorded by Samraoui (2002) in pond Fedjoudj as Alona azorica. According to a recent revision (Sinev et al. 2012), Ovalona azorica is confined to Azores and humid regions of West Iberia, while in the dry regions of West Mediterranean it is substituted by its sibling-species, O. anastasia Sinev, Alonso, Miracle & Sahuquillo, 2012. The status of Algerian populations needs to be confirmed by an examination of original samples.
69. Ovalona cambouei (Guerne & Richard, 1893) * recorded by Samraoui et al. (1998) in Sidi Freitis Lake. The species is known to occur in the Mediterranean region, Africa, Madagascar, Iraq, Central and Southern Asia (Sinev 2001b, 2015).
70. Ovalona nuragica (Margaritora, 1971) *. Alonso (1996) proposed that this taxon was reported by Gauthier (1928a) "from north Africa" (= Tunisia + Algeria) as Alona pulchella. Here we confirm its presence in Algeria (sites 34, 61). Mediterranean taxon (Sinev 2015).
71. Ovalona orellanai (Alonso, 1996) *, newly recorded species for Algeria (site 27). This species was previously known from Spain only (Alonso 1996).
72. Ovalona cf. pulchella King, 1853, recorded by Gauthier (1928a, 1929, 1931) as Alona pulchella, O. pulchella s. str. is restricted to Australia (Sinev 2001b, 2015). The records need to be re-checked, most probably they belong to its sibling species O. cambouei, though Alonso (1996: p. 327) ascribed the Algerian record of the species to Ovalona nuragica.
73. Tretocephala ambigua (Lilljeborg, 1901)*, recorded by Gauthier (1928a) and in this study (sites 65, 102). Palearctic species (Kotov et al. 2013a).
description: Published as part of Ghaouaci, Souad, Amarouayache, Mounia, Sinev, Artem Y., Korovchinsky, Nikolai M. & Kotov, Alexey A., 2018, An annotated checklist of the Algerian Cladocera (Crustacea: Branchiopoda), pp. 412-430 in Zootaxa 4377 (3) on pages 420-421, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4377.3.5, http://zenodo.org/record/1164544