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: Fremantle, rare (155).
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Dublin, Ireland: 155

Kuntze, C.E.O. (1898), Revisio generum plantarum: 417 [basionym]

basionym of: Neurocarpus pardalis (Harv.) Kuntze legitimate

May, V. (1947), Studies on Australian marine algae. III. Geographical records of various species and observations on Acrochaetium botryocarpum (Harv.) J.Ag. and Pterocladia capillacea (Gmel.) Born. and Thur. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 71: 274 [basionym]

basionym of: Dictyopteris pardalis (Harv.) V.May legitimate

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

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

taxonomic synonym of: Dictyopteris australis (Sond.) Askenasy legitimate

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

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