Afonso-Carrillo, J. (1984), Estudios en las algas Corallinaceae (Rhodophyta) de las Islas Canarias. III Notas taxonomicas. Vieraea, Folia Scientiarum Biologicarum Canariensium 13 (1/2): 133 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Lithophyllum illitus Me.Lemoine legitimate

Keats, D.W. & Chamberlain, Y.M. (1994), Three species of Hydrolithon (Rhodophyta, Corallinaceae): Hydrolithon onkodes (Heydrich) Penrose and Woelkerling, Hydrolithon superficiale sp. nov. and H. samoense (Foslie) comb. nov. from South Africa. South Africa Journal of Botany 60 (1): - [secondary reference]

Sim, C.B. & Townsend, R.A. in Walker, D.I. & Wells, F.E. (1999), An account of common crustose coralline algae (Corallinales, Rhodophyta) from macrophyte communities at Rottnest Island, Western Australia. The Seagrass Flora and Fauna of Rottnest Island, Western Australia: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Hydrolithon samoense (Foslie) Keats & Y.M.Chamb. legitimate

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

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