Forsskal, P. (1775), Flora Aegyptico-Arabica: 187 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Ad Gonf[s]odae & Mochhae littora, ut & f[s]equens.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Copenhagen: [Accession No. unknown]

Kützing [Kuetzing], F.T. (1849), Species Algarum [i]-vi, [1]-922: 478 [basionym]

basionym of: Phycoseris reticulata (Forssk.) Kütz. legitimate

Lewis, J.A. (1987), Checklist and bibliography of benthic marine macroalgae from Northern Australia. III. Chlorophyta: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Phycoseris reticulata (Forssk.) Kütz. legitimate

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

• Comment: Womersley 1956 Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7:355 questions the Tasmanian records of this tropical species.
• AMANI dist.: Queensland (Dampierian). World: Japan, Egypt, Indian Ocean, Indonesia, Papua, Malaysia.

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