Mertens, F.K. (1819), Memoire sur plusieurs especes de Fucus, nouvelles ou peu connues, observees dans la collection du Museum. Memoires du Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle 5: 177 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: No type statement is found in Mertens 1819.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Herbier Cryptogamie, Paris: [Accession No. unknown]

Agardh, C.A. (1824), Systema algarum: 304 [basionym]

basionym of: Sargassum baccularia (Mert.) C.Agardh legitimate

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.I. & Moe, R.L. (1996), Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: - [secondary reference]

Phillips, J.A. & Price, I.R. (1997), A catalogue of Phaeophyta (brown algae) from Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10 (5): - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sargassum baccularia (Mert.) C.Agardh legitimate

ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]

• Comment: Womersley 1958 Records of the American-Australian Scientific Expeditio to Arnhem Land vol. 3 p. 151 indicates an isotype exists in the Mertens collection in LD.

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