Agardh, C.A. (1817), Synopsis algarum Scandinaviae: XXIII [comb. nov.]

Sonder, O.W. (1853), Plantae Muellerianae: Algae. Linnaea 25: 661 [secondary reference]

Sonder, O.W. (1855), Plantae Muellerianae. Continuatio. Algae annis 1852 et 1853 collectae. Linnaea 26: 507 [secondary reference]

Sonder, O.W. (1871), Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 5: 66 [secondary reference]

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: 365 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caulerpa brownii (C.Agardh) Endl. legitimate by Sonder, O.W. (1853), Plantae Muellerianae: Algae. Linnaea 25: 661

[misapplied]

misapplied to: Caulerpa brownii (C.Agardh) Endl. legitimate by Sonder, O.W. (1855), Plantae Muellerianae. Continuatio. Algae annis 1852 et 1853 collectae. Linnaea 26: 507

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.I. & Moe, R.L. (1996), Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Chauvinia selago (Turner) Trevis. legitimate

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

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

• AMANI dist.: Queensland (Dampierian, Great Barrier Reef). World: Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania.

Price, I.R. (2011), A taxonomic revision of the marine green algal genera Caulerpa and Caulerpella (Chlorophyta, Caulerpaceae) in northern (tropical and subtropical) Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 24: 197 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C.Agardh legitimate by Sonder, O.W. (1871), Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 5: 66

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