Kjellman, F.R. (1872), Bidrag till kannedomen om. Skandinaviens Ectocarpeer och Tilopterider: 99 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Conferva littoralis L. legitimate

May, V. (1939), A key to the marine algae of New South Wales. Part 2. Melanophyceae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64: 197 [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym: Conferva littoralis L. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ectocarpus littoralis (L.) Lyngb. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ectocarpus siliculosus var. firmus C.Agardh legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ectocarpus firmus (C.Agardh) J.Agardh legitimate taxonomic synonym: Ectocarpus firmus var. rupincola Aresch. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Pylaiella rupincola (Aresch.) Kylin legitimate

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine brown algae (Phaeophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: - [secondary reference]

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine brown algae (Phaeophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Bachelotia antillarum (Grunow) Gerloff legitimate by May, V. (1939), A key to the marine algae of New South Wales. Part 2. Melanophyceae. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 64: 197

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

• Comment: May spells the generic name Pylaiella.
• AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian, Macquarie Island), South Australia (Flindersian). World: Widespread in temperate and cooler waters, New Zealand.

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