Cocconeis

Category

Monoraphid
Class

Bacillariophyceae
Order

Achnanthales
Family

Cocconeidaceae

Type Species

Cocconeis scutellum Ehrenberg

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding, Mark Edlund - Dec 2008
Reviewer

Sam Rushforth - Apr 2010

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8 Additional Cocconeis species

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Citations

Gerloff, J. and Rivera, P. (1979) The submicroscopic structure of the valves of Cocconeis pediculus (Bacillariophyceae) Wildenowia 9: 99-110 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3996121
Holmes, R.W. (1985) The morphology of diatoms epizoic on cetaceans and their transfer from Cocconeis to two new genera. British Phycological Journal 20: 43-57
Holmes, R.W., Crawford, R.M. and Round, F.E. (1982) Variability in the structure of the genus Cocconeis Ehr. (Bacillariophyta) with special reference to the cingulum. Phycologia 21: 370-381
Jahn, R., Kusber, W.H. and Romero, O.E. (2009) Cocconeis pediculus Ehrenberg and C. placentula Ehrenberg var. placentula (Bacillariophyta): Typification and taxonomy. Fottea 9(2): 275–288.
Kingston, J.C. (2003) Araphid and Monoraphid Diatoms In: Freshwater Algae of North America. Ecology and Classification (J.D. Wehr and R.G. Sheath, eds). Elsevier Science pp. 595-636
Kreis, R.G.,Jr. and Stoermer, E.F. (1979) Diatoms of the Laurentian Great Lakes III. Rare and poorly known species of Achnanthes Bory and Cocconeis Ehr. (Bacillariophyta). J. of Great Lakes Research 5:276-291
Leterme, S.C., Ellis, A.V., Mitchell, J.G., Buscot, M.J., Pollet, T., Schapira, M. and Seuront, L. (2010) Morphological flexibility of Cocconeis placentula (Bacillariophyceae) nanostructure to changing salinity levels Journal of Phycology 46, (4): 715–719

Publication Link: 10.1111/j.1529-8817.2010.00850.x
Patrick, R.M. and Reimer, C.W. (1966) The Diatoms of the United States exclusive of Alaska and Hawaii, V. 1 Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 13

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Spaulding, S, and Edlund, M . (2008). Cocconeis. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved December 16, 2018, from https://diatoms.org/genera/cocconeis

Displaying 6 of 6 species

8 Additional Cocconeis species

Cocconeis disculus

Cocconeis neodiminuta

Cocconeis neothumensis

Cocconeis placentula var. euglypta

Cocconeis placentula var. klinoraphis

Cocconeis placentula var. lineata

Cocconeis pseudolineata

Cocconeis scutellum

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