Kuetzing, F.T. (1859), Tabulae phycologicae 9: 13, pl. 30: fig 2 [tax. nov.]

• Type locality: [Woahoo] Oahu, Hawaiian Archipelago
• Type specimen: HOLOTYPE: MEL 16989

Sonder, O.W. (1871), Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 5: 48 [secondary reference]

Lucas, A.H.S. (1935), The marine algae of Lord Howe Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 212 [secondary reference]

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

Millar, A.J.K. & Kraft, G.T. (1994), Catalogue of marine brown algae (Phaeophyta) of New South Wales, including Lord Howe Island, south-western Pacific. Australian Systematic Botany 7: - [misapplied]

misapplied to: Dictyota bartayresiana var. plectens Allender & G.T.Kraft legitimate by Lucas, A.H.S. (1935), The marine algae of Lord Howe Island. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 60: 212

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

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

misapplied to: Dictyota pardalis Kütz. legitimate by Sonder, O.W. (1871), Die Algen des tropischen Australiens. Abhandlungen aus dem Gebiete der Naturwissenschaften 5: 48

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

• Comment: Phillips & Price indicate the Sonder specimens are D. pardalis but Silva et al 1996 Univ Calif Public Bot. 79:588 place D. pardalis in synonymy with D. cervicornis.

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