Grunow, A. (1860), Verh. K.K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 10: 578, pl. 5, fig. 14 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Red Sea

Crosby, L.H. & Wood, E.J.F. (1959), Studies on Australian and New Zealand diatoms. II. Normally epontic and benthic genera. Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. New Zealand 86: 1–58 [secondary reference]

John, J. (1990), Mastogloia species associated with active stromatolites in Shark Bay, west coast of Australia. Memoirs of the California Academy of Science 17: - [secondary reference]

John, J. (1993), Morphology and ultrastructure of the tubes of Mastogloia cocconeiformis (Bacillariophyta) from Shark Bay, Western Australia. Phycologia 32: 388–394 [secondary reference]

McCarthy, P. (2012), Census of Australian Marine Diatoms: - [secondary reference]

• Comment: In marine and brackish habitats and in hypersaline pools
• APC Comment: P.McCarthy (2012) uses this taxon concept.
• Distribution: N.S.W. (Lake Macquarie, Lake Conjola), W.A. (Shark Bay)
• Ex.distribution: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, U.S.A. (Virginia), Red Sea, Philippines

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