Cocconeis antiqua Tempère et Brun

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, Botanica Marina (Warsaw, Poland) 65 (2), pp. 81-103 : 90

publication ID	https://doi.org/ 10.1515/bot-2021-0066
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.11094443
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scientific name	Cocconeis antiqua Tempère et Brun
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Cocconeis antiqua Tempère et Brun ( Figures 60, 61 View Figures 60–78 )

Literature: (Al-Handal and Wulff 2008b, p. 426, figs. 28–29, 35–36 [as Cocconeis schuettii van Heurck 1909 ]; Scott and Thomas 2005, p. 127, fig. 2.69a–d).

Description: Length 47–72 µm, width 35–47 µm, striae 14– 16 on raphe valve, 24–26 on rapheless valve.

Remarks: The taxonomic position of Cocconeis antiqua has been discussed and revised by Romero (2011) where several taxa previously described by Van Heurck were considered as synonyms of this species. These include C. gautierii var. gautierii , C. gautierii var. inornata , C. litigiosa , C. schuettii var. schuettii , and C. schuettii var. minor Van Heurck.

Ecology and distribution: Cocconeis antiqua does not seem to have been found outside Antarctica since its description in 1909 by Van Heurck (Van Heurck 1909). Frequent in all samples examined from Potter Cove.