Agardh, C.A. (1823), Species algarum: 437 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: "Fucus N:o K" Mus. Paris. Ad oras Meridionales Novae Hollandiae. Vidi in collectione Musaei Parisiensis.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Herbier Cryptogamie, Paris: [Accession No. unknown]

Womersley, H.B.S. (1956), A critical survey of the marine algae of southern Australia. I. Chlorophyta. Australian Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 7: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Caulerpa brownii (C.Agardh) Endl. legitimate by Sonder, O.W. (1853), Plantae Muellerianae: Algae. Linnaea 25: - misapplication: Chauvinia brownii (C.Agardh) Trevis. legitimate by Kuetzing, F.T. (1857), Tabulae Phycologicae 7: 5

Womersley, H.B.S. (1984), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part I: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Caulerpa harveyi F.Muell. ex Harv. legitimate

• APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.

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

• AMANI dist.: Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian). World: New Zealand.

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