Cocconeis californica Grunow 1880

• Main Authors: Al-Handal, Adil Y., Torstensson, Anders, Wulff, Angela
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2022
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Chromista; Ochrophyta; Bacillariophyceae; Achnanthales; Cocconeidaceae; Cocconeis; Cocconeis californica; Antarc*; Antarctica; King George Island
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11000215; http://treatment.plazi.org/id/03C487C5430F737BFCEFFA7E77F2980C

Cocconeis californica Grunow (Figure 47) Literature: (Poulin et al. 1984a, p. 49, figs. 5–11; Riaux-Gobin and Romero 2003, p. 21, figs. 15, 18, 19, pl. 8, figs. 1–8, pl. 9, figs. 1–5, pl. 10; Witkowski et al. 2000, p. 102, pl. 36, figs. 29, 30, pl. 42, figs. 8–15). Description: Length 17–22 µm, width 12–15 µm, striae 10–11 in 10 µm. Remarks: Specimens observed were with lower stria density than previously recorded from Potter Cove (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b, striae 11–16 in 10 µm) or those reported from Kerguelen (12–18 in 10 µm) by Riaux-Gobin and Romero (2003). Ecology and distribution: Widely distributed marine periphytic species. Rare in Potter Cove. Published as part of Al-Handal, Adil Y., Torstensson, Anders & Wulff, Angela, 2022, Revisiting Potter Cove, King George Island, Antarctica, 12 years later: new observations of marine benthic diatoms, pp. 81-103 in Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) (Warsaw, Poland) 65 (2) on page 90, DOI:10.1515/bot-2021-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/11000147