Cocconeis | Genera - Diatoms of North America

Cocconeis Guide

Category

Monoraphid
Class

Bacillariophyceae
Order

Achnanthales
Family

Cocconeidaceae

Type Species

Cocconeis scutellum Ehrenb.

Contributor

Sarah Spaulding, Mark Edlund - Dec 2008
Reviewer

Sam Rushforth - Apr 2010

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Citations & Links

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Citations

De Stefano, M., Marino, D. and Mazzella, Luca. (2000) Marine taxa of Cocconeis on leaves of Posidonia oceanica, including a new species and two new varieties. European Journal of Phycology 35(3): 225-242.

Publication Link: 10.1080/09670260010001735831
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.
Jahn, R., Abarca, N., Kusber, W.-H., Skibbe, O., Zimmermann, J. and Mora, D. (2020) Integrative taxonomic descriptions of two new species of the Cocconeis placentula group (Bacillariophyceae) from Korea based on unialgal strains. Algae 35 (4): 303-324.

Publication Link: 10.4490/algae.2020.35.8.1
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
Mora, D., Stancheva, R. and Jahn, R. (2022) Cocconeis czarneckii sp. nov. (Bacillariophyta): a new diatom species from Lake Okoboji (Iowa, USA), based on the strain UTEX FD23 Phycologia 61(1): 60-74.

Publication Link: 10.1080/00318884.2021.2003684
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
Romero, O. and Jahn, R. (2013) Typification of Cocconeis lineata and Cocconeis euglypta (Bacillariophyta) Diatom Research 28(2): 175-184

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2013.770801
Stancheva, R. (2018) Cocconeis cascadensis, a new monoraphid diatom from mountain streams in Northern California, USA. Diatom Research 33(4): 471-483.

Publication Link: 10.1080/0269249X.2019.1571531

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Spaulding, S., Edlund, M. (2008). Cocconeis. In Diatoms of North America. Retrieved May 01, 2026, from https://diatoms.org/genera/cocconeis?x-craft-preview=409442409a997390693ff24c7010fd6f1c96fb56f8f091fa016a63de9a54aaccecpiqubknd