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

basionym: Fucus cactoides Turner legitimate

Sonder, O.W. in Mueller, F. (ed.) (1880), Algae australianae. Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae: 37 [secondary reference]

Guiler, E.R. (1952), The marine algae of Tasmania. Check-list with localities. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 86: 74 [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 [secondary reference]

misapplication: Caulerpa corynephora Mont. legitimate by Harvey, W.H. (1855), Some account of the marine botany of the colony of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22: 564

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 [pro parte misapplied]

pro parte misapplied to: Caulerpa annulata A.H.S.Lucas legitimate by Guiler, E.R. (1952), The marine algae of Tasmania. Check-list with localities. Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania 86: 74

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

nomenclatural synonym: Fucus cactoides Turner legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ahnfeldtia cactoides (Turner) Trevis. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chauvinia cactoides (Turner) Kütz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Tricladia australis Decne. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caulerpa cactoides var. gracilis G.Murray legitimate

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

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

• Comment: Distribution: see also Huisman & Walker 1990 Kingia 4:364, Lewis 1987 Dept of Def. Report MRL-R-1063.
• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian, Houtman Abrolhos, Dampierian), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef, Peronian). World: Indonesia, Bangladesh.

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: 157 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caulerpa fergusonii G.Murray legitimate by Sonder, O.W. in Mueller, F. (ed.) (1880), Algae australianae. Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae: 37

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