Lamouroux, J.V. (1809), Memoire sur les Caulerpes, nouveau genre de la famille des Algues marines. Journal de Botanique (Desvaux) 2: 145 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Habitat in ... Ded. Thuillier.

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]

misapplication: Caulerpa racemosa f. cylindracea (Sond.) Weber Bosse legitimate by Weber-van Bosse, A.A. (1898), Monographie des Caulerpes. Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 15: 366

Kraft, G.T. (2007), Marine Benthic Algae of Lord Howe Island and the Southern Great Barrier Reef, 1. Green Algae: - [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Caulerpa laetevirens Mont. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caulerpa nummularia Harv. ex J.Agardh legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caulerpa racemosa var. nummularia (Harv. ex J.Agardh) D.L.Dixit legitimate

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

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

• Comment: Type locality given as West Indies by Silva et al. (1996) Univ. Calif. Publ in Botany 79:828. Kraft 2007 Algae of Australia p. 188 retains Caulerpa racemosa var peltata as a separate entity from C. peltata. Both taxa are recorded for Lord Howe Island.
• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian, Lord Howe Island), Western Australia (Flindersian, Houtman Abrolhos, Dampierian), Northern Territory (Dampierian), Queensland (Dampierian, Great Barrier Reef, Peronian), Norfolk Island, Christmas Island. World: Indian Ocean, West Indies.

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: - [secondary reference]

misapplication: Caulerpa racemosa var. laxa (Grev.) Weber Bosse nom. illeg. by Weber-van Bosse, A.A. (1898), Monographie des Caulerpes. Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 15: 367

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