Harvey, W.H. (1855), Some account of the marine botany of the colony of Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy 22: 542 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Cast ashore at Middleton Bay, King George's Sound, August.
• Type specimen: HOLOTYPE: Dublin, Ireland: trav. Set # 336

Cribb, A.B. (1965), An ecological and taxonomic account of the algae of a semi-marine cavern, Paradise Cave, Queensland. University of Queensland, Papers Department of Botany 4: 259 [basionym]

basionym of: Micropeuce proxima (Harv.) Womersley & M.J.Parsons legitimate

Womersley, H.B.S. & Parsons, M.J. in Womersley, H.B.S. (2003), Lopothalieae. The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia. Part IIID: - [secondary reference]

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

nomenclatural synonym of: Micropeuce proxima (Harv.) Womersley & M.J.Parsons legitimate

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