Agardh, C.A. (1820), Species algarum: 438 [nom. nov.]

Lucas, A.H.S. (1927), Notes on Australian marine algae. v. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 52: 556 [secondary reference]

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: Fucus sedoides R.Br. ex Turner nom. inval., nom. nud. nomenclatural synonym: Chauvinia sedoides (C.Agardh) Bory legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ahnfeldtia sedoides (C.Agardh) Trevis. legitimate

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

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

• Comment: This name is the accepted basionym for Caulerpa sedoides but is based on the protologue of Fucus sedoides R. Brown ex Turner non Goodenough & Woodward, non Desfontaines. Tasmanian distribution = Kent Islands.
• Comment: Data taken from the future 'Algae of Australia' account of Caulerpa by Ian Price.
• AMANI dist.: Tasmania (Flindersian), Queensland (Dampierian, Great Barrier Reef).

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: 172 [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caulerpa lentillifera J.Agardh legitimate by Lucas, A.H.S. (1927), Notes on Australian marine algae. v. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 52: 556

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