Codiaceae
Codium arabicum Kütz. , legitimate, scientific
Kuetzing, F.T. (1856), Tabulae phycologicae: 35,pl. 100, fig ii [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: El Tor am Rothen Meer.
Womersley, H.B.S. (1984), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part I: - [secondary reference]
misapplication: Codium lucasii Setch. legitimate by Lucas, A.H.S. (1935), The marine algae of Lord Howe Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 200
Kraft, G.T. (2007), Marine Benthic Algae of Lord Howe Island and the Southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green Algae: - [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
Kraft, G.T. (2007), Marine Benthic Algae of Lord Howe Island and the Southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green Algae: - [misapplied]
misapplied to: Codium lucasii Setch. legitimate by Kuetzing, F.T. (1856), Tabulae phycologicae: 35,pl. 100, fig ii
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: Lucas specimens from Lord Howe are not C. lucasii. Record of C. lucasii from Norfolk I. is not C. arabicum as cited by Lewis 1987 Dept of Def. Report MRL-R-1063:17.
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian, Lord Howe Island), Western Australia (Dampierian), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef, Peronian). World: New Guinea, Indian Ocean, tropical Pacific Ocean, Philippines, Malaya, New Zealand, Chile.