Weber-van Bosse, A.A. (1898), Monographie des Caulerpes. Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 15: 366 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Caulerpa cylindracea Sond. legitimate

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.I. & Moe, R.L. (1996), Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: - [secondary reference]

Silva, P.C., Basson, P.I. & Moe, R.L. (1996), Catalogue of the benthic marine algae of the Indian Ocean. University of California Publications in Botany 79: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caulerpa peltata J.V.Lamour. legitimate by Weber-van Bosse, A.A. (1898), Monographie des Caulerpes. Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 15: 366

Huisman, J.M. (2000), Marine Plants of Australia: - [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Caulerpa cylindracea Sond. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Chauvinia cylindracea (Sond.) Kütz. legitimate nomenclatural synonym: Ahnfeldtia cylindracea (Sond.) Trevis. legitimate

• APC Comment: R.Cowan (2011) uses this taxon concept.

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

• Comment: Silva et al indicate this name is a heteotypic synonym of C. peltata. As of June 1996 the official synonymy has not been made. In the upcoming 'Algae of Australia' account of Caulerpa by Ian Price this name is placed in synonymy with C. racemosa var. laetevirens. Womersley 2003 The Marine Benthic Flora of Southern Australia Pt IIID p. 499 lists this taxon as a pest species.
• Comment: Silva et al indicate that this taxon is a taxonomic synonym of C. peltata but the formal synonymy has not been made as of June 1996.
• AMANI dist.: South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian), Queensland (Dampierian). World: India, Kenya, Sri Lanka.

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