Weber-van Bosse, A.A. (1898), Monographie des Caulerpes. Annales du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 15: 337 [comb. nov.]

basionym: Caulerpa amicorum Harv. legitimate

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine benthic green algae (Chlorophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: 436 [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: - [secondary reference]

Kraft, G.T. (2000), Marine and estuarine benthic green algae (Chlorophyta) of Lord Howe Island, South-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 13: - [secondary reference]

Kraft, G.T. (2000), Marine and estuarine benthic green algae (Chlorophyta) of Lord Howe Island, South-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 13: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Caulerpa cupressoides f. elegans (P.Crouan & H.Crouan) Weber Bosse legitimate by Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine benthic green algae (Chlorophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: 436

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

• Comment: The future 'Algae of Australia' account of this taxon by Ian Price will return the species to Caulerpa cupressoides var. lycopodium. The Lord Howe Island specimens are now referred to C. cupressoides var lycopodium f elegans (Kraft 2000 Aust Syst Bot 13:598).
• AMANI dist.: World: Indonesia, Kenya, Mozambique, Tanzania, Japan, Tonga.

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