Cocconeis melchioroides Al-Handal, Riaux-Gobin, Romero et Wulff (Figures 54, 55) Literature: (Al-Handal et al. 2008, p. 271, figs. 2–15, 18–22). Description: Length 10–12 µm, width 6–8 µm, striae (raphe valve) 13–15 in 10 µm. Ecology and distribution: A marine Antarctic epiphytic and benthic species. It was originally described from Potter Cove (Al-Handal et al. 2008b) but has also been recently reported from the Ross Sea (Majewska and De Stefano 2015).

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 92, DOI: 10.1515/bot-2021-0066, http://zenodo.org/record/11000147