Sonder, O.W. (1845), Nova Algarum genera et species, quas in itinere ad oras occidentales Novae Hollandiae, collegit L. Preiss, Ph.Dr. Botanische Zeitung 3: 50 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: No type statement is found in Sonder 1845.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Melbourne: 17111

Agardh, J.G. (1882), Till algernes systematik. Acta Universitatis Lundensis. Lunds Universitets Årsskrift. Afdelningen för Mathematik och Naturvetenskap 17: 107 [basionym]

basionym of: Dilophus fastigiatus (Sond.) J.Agardh legitimate

Womersley, H.B.S. (1987), The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part II: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Dilophus fastigiatus (Sond.) J.Agardh legitimate

Phillips, J.A. (1992), Taxonomy and reproduction in Australian species of Dilophus (Dictyotales, Phaeophyta). Australian Systematic Botany 5: - [secondary reference]

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

• Comment: Sonder 1846 Algae IN Lehmann Plantae Preissianae p. 155 cites "Ad Novae Hollandiae oram occidentalem. Herb. Preiss. No. 2497." See also de Clerck 1998 Ph. D thesis Univ. Gent 356 pp. 147 who treats the taxon under this binomial. Type material is illustrated in Phillips 1992:fig 2a.

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