Setchell, W.A. (1924), American Samoa. Part 1: the vegetation of Tutuila Island; Part 2: Ethnobotany of the Samoans; Part 3: Vegetation of Rose Atoll. Publications of the Carnegie Institution of Washington 341: 173 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: No. 1013, fragment in deep hollow in Porolithon onkodes thallus, reef-patch off Aua (June 3, 1920, sterile); No. 1032, creeping and "rooting" at intervals, among staghorn corals, reef in front of Laulii (June 5, 1920, sterile).

Kraft, G.T. (2000), Marine and estuarine benthic green algae (Chlorophyta) of Lord Howe Island, South-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 13: - [secondary reference]

• Type specimen: LECTOTYPE: University of California: Setchell # 1032

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

taxonomic synonym of: Codium geppiorum O.C.Schmidt legitimate

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

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