Grunow, A. (1860), Verh. K.K. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 10: 577, pl. 5, fig. 4 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Red Sea

Foged, N. (1978), Diatoms in eastern Australia. Biblioth. Phycol 41: 1–243 [secondary reference]

John, J. (1983), The diatom flora of the Swan River Estuary, Western Australia. Bibliotheca Phycologica 64: 1–358 [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]

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

• Comment: Estuarine and in hypersaline pools
• APC Comment: P.McCarthy (2012) uses this taxon concept.
• Distribution: Qld (Noosa), W.A. (Perth, Shark Bay)
• Ex.distribution: Gulf of Mexico, Caribbean Sea, Sargasso Sea, U.S.A. (Florida, South Carolina), Mediterranean Sea (Italy), Black Sea, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, Philippines

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