Agardh, C.A. (1817), Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae: XXII [comb. nov.]

basionym: Fucus taxifolius Vahl legitimate

Kraft, G.T. (2007), Marine Benthic Algae of Lord Howe Island and the Southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green Algae: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Fucus taxifolius Vahl legitimate

• APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.

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

• Comment: Benzie et al. 2000 Aquatic Botany 66(2): 131-139 indicate the Queensland populations are not conspecific with Mediterranean populations. Womersley 2003 The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Pt IIID p. 499 lists this taxon as a pest species.
• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Lord Howe Island), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Houtman Abrolhos, Dampierian), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef, Herald Cay, Peronian), Norfolk Island. World: France, Bermuda, Canary Islands, Cape Verde Islands, Mexico, Belize, Panama, Barbados, Cuba, Jamaica, Lesser Antilles, Netherlands Antilles, Puerto Rico, Trinidad, Virgin Islands, Colombia, Venezuela, west Africa, Indian Ocean, Asia, SW Pacific.

Price, I.R. (2011), A taxonomic revision of the marine green algal genera Caulerpa and Caulerpella (Chlorophyta, Caulerpaceae) in northern (tropical and subtropical) Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 24: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Caulerpa selago (Turner) C.Agardh legitimate by Sonder, O.W. (1871), Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 5: 66 misapplication: Caulerpa crassifolia (C.Agardh) J.Agardh legitimate by Cribb, A.B. (1958), Records of marine algae from south-eastern Queensland, IV. Caulerpa. Papers from the Department of Botany, University of Queensland 3: 210

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