Lamarck, J.B.A.P.M. de (1815), Sur les polypiers corticiferes. Memoires du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 2: 239 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: Habite les mers Australes ou de la Nouvelle-Hollande. Peron et Lesueur.
• Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Herbier Cryptogamie, Paris: [Accession No. unknown]

de Blainville, H.M.D. (1834), Manuel d'actinologie ... zoophytologie : 552 [basionym]

basionym of: Amphiroa stellifera (Lam.) Blainv. legitimate

Weber-van Bosse, A.A. in Weber-van Bosse, A.A. & Foslie, M.H. (1904), Part II. Corallinae verae of the Malay Archipelago. The Corallinaceae of the Siboga-Expedition: 103 [basionym]

basionym of: Metagoniolithon stelliferum (Lam.) Weber Bosse legitimate

Ducker, S.C. (1979), The genus Metagoniolithon Weber-van Bosse (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 27: - [secondary reference]

Ducker, S.C. (1979), The genus Metagoniolithon Weber-van Bosse (Corallinaceae, Rhodophyta). Australian Journal of Botany 27: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Metagoniolithon stelliferum (Lam.) Weber Bosse legitimate

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

• Comment: Type is illustrated in Ducker 1979: fig. 1C.

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