Harvey, W.H. (1855), Some account of the marine botany of the colony of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22: 560 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: On Zostera at King George's Sound, rare (343).

Womersley, H.B.S. & Wollaston, E.M. in Womersley, H.B.S. (1998), Tribe Heterothamnieae Wollaston 1968:407. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia: 179 [basionym]

basionym of: Trithamnion aculeatum (Harv.) Womersley & E.M.Woll. legitimate

Womersley, H.B.S. (1998), The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia. Part IIIC: - [secondary reference]

• Type specimen: LECTOTYPE: Dublin, Ireland: Alg. Aust. Exsicc. 528

ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Trithamnion aculeatum (Harv.) Womersley & E.M.Woll. legitimate

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