Harvey, W.H. (1855), Some account of the marine botany of the colony of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22: 535 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Middleton Bay, King George's Sound; and Cape Riche at low-water mark (21).

Womersley, H.B.S. (1967), A critical survey of the marine algae of southern Australia. II. Phaeophyta. Australian Journal of Botany 15: - [secondary reference]

Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Lobospira bicuspidata Aresch. legitimate

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

• Comment: Type presumably in TCD, no data on type specimen in recent literature.

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