Silva, P.C. & Womersley, H.B.S. (1956), The genus Codium (Chlorophyta) in southern Australia. Australian Journal of Botany 4: 277- 278, fig. 11, pl. 2 fig. 1 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Type.- Vivonne Bay, Kangaroo I., S.A., 2.i.1949, drift, Womersley (AD, A10,557). Isotypes in BM, UC.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Adelaide: A10557

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

misapplication: Codium muelleri Kütz. legitimate by Kuetzing, F.T. (1856), Tabulae phycologicae: 34, tab. 95 fig. II

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

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine benthic green algae (Chlorophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Codium muelleri Kütz. legitimate by Lucas, A.H.S. (1912), Supplementary list of the marine algae of Australia. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 37: 171

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

• Comment: Type illustrated in Womersley 1984 fig. 79A.
• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian, Dampierian). World: New Zealand.

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