Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Caulerpa fergusonii
Caulerpaceae
Caulerpa fergusonii G.Murray , legitimate, scientific
Murray, G. (1891), On a new species of Caulerpa, with observations on the position of the genus. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. Botany 3: 212; pl LIII, figs 1-2 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: Hab. ad Ceylonam, Ferguson! no. 415.
Huisman, J.M. in Wells, F.E. (ed.) (1997), Marine benthic algae of the Houtman Abrolhos, Western Australia. The Marine Flora and Fauna of the Houtman Abrohlos Islands, Western Australia: - [secondary reference]
  • APC Comment: R.Cowan (2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • AMANI dist.: Western Australia (Flindersian, Houtman Abrolhos, Dampierian), Northern Territory (Dampierian), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef). World: Indian Ocean, eastern Pacific.
Price, I.R. (2011), A taxonomic revision of the marine green algal genera Caulerpa and Caulerpella (Chlorophyta, Caulerpaceae) in northern (tropical and subtropical) Australia. Australian Systematic Botany 24: - [secondary reference]
misapplication: Caulerpa cactoides (Turner) C.Agardh legitimate by Sonder, O.W. in Mueller, F. (ed.) (1880), Algae australianae. Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae: 37