Lamarck, J.B.A.P.M. de (1815), Sur les polypiers corticiferes. Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 2: 240 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Mus., no. Habite les mers de la Nouvelle-Hollande. Peron et Lesueur.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Herbier Cryptogamie, Paris: [Accession No. unknown]

de Blainville, H.M.D. (1834), Manuel d'actinologie ... zoophytologie : 552 [basionym]

basionym of: Amphiroa radiata (Lam.) Blainv. legitimate

Yendo, K. (1902), Corallinae verae japonicae. Journal of the College of Science, Imperial University of Tokyo 16: 26 [secondary reference]

Ducker, S.C. (1979), The genus Metagoniolithon Weber-van Bosse (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 27: - [secondary reference]

• Comment: Ducker AJB 1979 p. 85 states the misapplication in Yendo, K. (1902) is not to Metagoniolithon radiatum.

Ducker, S.C. (1979), The genus Metagoniolithon Weber-van Bosse (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 27: 85 [basionym]

basionym of: Metagoniolithon radiatum (Lam.) Ducker legitimate

Womersley, H.B.S. (1996), The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia. Part IIIB: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Metagoniolithon radiatum (Lam.) Ducker legitimate

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

• Comment: Type is illustrated in Ducker 1979: Fig. 5 A.
• AMANI comment: Misapplication (Yendo, K., 1902)

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