Mertens, F.K. (1819), Memoire sur plusieurs especes de Fucus, nouvelles ou peu connues, observees dans la collection du Museum. Memoires du Museum Nationale d'Histoire Naturelle 5: 180 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Mare Rubrum pro loco natali agnoscere videntur.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Herbier Cryptogamie, Paris: [Accession No. unknown]

Agardh, J.G. (1889), Species Sargassorum Australiae descriptae et dispositae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 23 (3): - [secondary reference]

Agardh, J.G. (1889), Species Sargassorum Australiae descriptae et dispositae. Kongliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 23 (3): 83 [basionym]

basionym of: Sargassum fissifolium (Mert.) J.Agardh legitimate

Grunow, A. (1916), Additamenta ad cognitionem Sargassorum. Verhandlungen der Kaiserlich-Koniglichen Zoologisch-Botanischen Gessellschaft in Wien 66: 161 [basionym]

basionym of: Sargassum spinuligerum var. fissifolia (Mert.) Grunow legitimate

Phillips, J.A. & Price, I.R. (1997), A catalogue of Phaeophyta (brown algae) from Queensland, Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 10 (5): - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Sargassum fissifolium (Mert.) J.Agardh legitimate

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

• Comment: Agardh 1848 'species Genera et Ordines Fucoidearum' p. 339 indicates that the Mertens specimen is in Paris.

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