Harvey, W.H. (1855), Some account of the marine botany of the colony of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22: 536 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Rottnest and Garden Island (184).

Sonder, O.W. (1871), Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 5: 48 [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 Sonder, O.W. (1871), Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 5: 48

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

De Clerck, O., Leliaert, F., Verbruggen, H., Lane, C.E., De Paula, J.C., Payo, D.A. & Coppejans, E. (2006), A revised classification of the Dictyoteae (Dictyotales, Phaeophyceae) based on rbcL and 26S ribosomal DNA sequence analyses. Journal of Phycology 42 (1271): 1286 [basionym]

basionym of: Rugulopteryx radicans (Harv.) De Clerck & Coppejans legitimate

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

• Comment: Type illustrated de Clerck pl. 39A.
• Type specimen: LECTOTYPE: Dublin, Ireland: TCD 69A

ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Rugulopteryx radicans (Harv.) De Clerck & Coppejans legitimate

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