Kützing [Kuetzing], F.T. (1849), Species Algarum [i]-vi, [1]-922: 411-412 [nom. nov.]

basionym: Conferva simpliciuscula Hook.f. & Harv. legitimate

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

misapplication: Cladophora delicatula (Mont.) Mont. legitimate by 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: 360

van den Hoek, C. & Womersley, H.B.S. in Womersley, H.B.S. (1984), Genus Cladophora. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia. Part I: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Conferva simpliciuscula Hook.f. & Harv. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Cladophora stuartii Harv. legitimate

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

• Comment: C subsimplex represents a new name for a Cladophora based on Conferva simpliciuscula Kuetzing. See Silva et al 1996 Univ calif Public Bot. 79:782 for nomenclatural information. Lewis 1987 Dept of Def. Report MRL-R-1063:14 does not indicate where in QLD this taxon occurs.
• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef). World: Cape Horn, Falkland Is., New Zealand.

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