Harvey, W.H. (1855), Some account of the marine botany of the colony of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22: 551 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Fremantle, thrown up after storms (244).
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Dublin, Ireland: Trav. set #244

Agardh, J.G. (1876), Species genera et ordines algarum: 555 [basionym]

basionym of: Ptilophora prolifera (Harv.) J.Agardh legitimate

Womersley, H.B.S. (1994), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ptilophora prolifera (Harv.) J.Agardh legitimate

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

Entwisle, T.J. & Nairn, L. (2011), Census of Freshwater Algae in Australia. Edn. Version 1.0: - [secondary reference]

• APC Comment: T.J.Entwisle and L.Nairn (2011) use this taxon concept.

Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G M. (2021), -. Algaebase web site: www.algaebase.org: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Ptilophora prolifera (Harv.) J.Agardh legitimate

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