Lamouroux, J.V. (1809), Exposition des caracteres du genre Dictyota, et tableau des especes qu'il renferme. Journal de Botanique (Desvaux) 2: 42 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Habitat in Nova Hollandia. Ded. Peron.

Lewis, J.A. (1985), Checklist and bibliography of benthic marine macroalgae recorded from Northern Australia. II. Phaeophyta: 12 [secondary reference]

Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: 190 [secondary reference]

Phillips, J.A. & Price, I.R. (1997), A catalogue of Phaeophyta (brown algae) from Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10 (5): - [secondary reference]

Phillips, J.A. & Price, I.R. (1997), A catalogue of Phaeophyta (brown algae) from Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10 (5): - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dictyota dichotoma (Huds.) J.V.Lamour. legitimate by Lewis, J.A. (1985), Checklist and bibliography of benthic marine macroalgae recorded from Northern Australia. II. Phaeophyta: 12

de Clerck, O. (1998), A revision of the genus Dictyota Lamouroux (Phaeophyta) in the Indian Ocean: - [secondary reference]

de Clerck, O. (1998), A revision of the genus Dictyota Lamouroux (Phaeophyta) in the Indian Ocean: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Rugulopteryx radicans (Harv.) De Clerck & Coppejans legitimate by Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: 190

de Clerck, O. (2003), The genus Dictyota in the Indian Ocean. Opera Botanica Belgica 13: - [secondary reference]

de Clerck, O. (2003), The genus Dictyota in the Indian Ocean. Opera Botanica Belgica 13: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Canistrocarpus crispatus (J.V.Lamour.) J.C.Paula & De Clerck legitimate

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

• Comment: Some specimens are D. dichotoma, see Millar & Kraft 1994 Aust. Syst. Bot. 7:17. Type illustrated de Clerck pl. 20A and the label on the type reads [Harlem Land] Peron.
• Type specimen: LECTOTYPE: Caen: C7F74

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