Alona cambouei

About Alona cambouei

Alona cambouei is a branchiopod crustacean in the family Chydoridae. Its current scientific name is cited as Alona cambouei Guerne & Richard, 1893. Published Kauaʻi evidence documents the species from Kauaʻi. The cited evidence includes records dated or referenced to 1937. Evidence types include historical freshwater record. These records establish a documented Kauaʻi occurrence but are not automatically interpreted as a present-day abundance estimate. The documented Kauaʻi habitat context includes freshwater. For current-status context, historical Kauaʻi record; current persistence not reassessed. Current global registries retain Alona cambouei as an accepted species, although at least one regional taxonomic treatment has used a different synonymy; that regional treatment is preserved as a note rather than silently replacing the global accepted name. The available Kauaʻi evidence does not support adding island-specific claims about diet, reproduction, behavior, population size, or trend unless those points are stated in the cited sources, so they are not inferred here. Keeping the accepted taxonomic concept together with the dated occurrence evidence allows later surveys to distinguish historical documentation from contemporary status.