What is "alona"

Alona is a genus of cladocerans in the family Chydoridae. It is one of the largest genera of Cladocera, and is widely believed to be an artificial group which is in need of systematic revision; the type species is Alona quadrangularis. Around 240 names at the species level have been described in Alona; it is unclear how many of these are valid, or how they are related.

Species currently assigned to the genus Alona include:

• Alona hercegovinae Brancelj, 1990
• Alona quadrangularis (O. F. Müller, 1776)
• Alona sketi Brancelj, 1992
• Alona smirnovi Petkovsky & Flossner,1972

Alona is a genus of plants in the Solanaceae or nightshade family native to Chile. It is often considered to be a subgenus within the genus Nolana.

Alona may refer to:

• Alona, Cyprus, a village in the Nicosia District
• Alona or Alone, another name for Alavana, the Roman settlement at Watercrook
• Alona (crustacean), a large genus of Cladocera
• Alona (plant), a genus in the plant family Solanaceae
• Alona (given name), a disambiguation page
• Alona Beach, a beach resort area of Panglao, Bohol, Philippines
• Alona Regional Council, a regional council in northern Israel
• 15230 Alona, a main belt asteroid discovered on September 13, 1987

Alona (Ukrainian: Альона, Hebrew: אלונה)is a feminine given name. Notable people with the name include:

• Alona Alegre (born 1948), a Filipino actress
• Alona Bondarenko (born 1984), a Ukrainian tennis player
• Alona Elkayam (born 1974), a Moroccan-American artist, entrepreneur and creative director
• Alona Frankel (born 1937), a Polish-born Israeli author and illustrator of children's books
• Alona Kimhi (born 1966), an Israeli author and actress
• Alona Tal (born 1983), an Israeli television actress

• Alona (character), a fictional character in the Filipino telefantasya Atlantika

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