Algae Australian Algae Name Index (AANI)

Showing Caulerpa flexilis
Caulerpaceae
Caulerpa flexilis J.V.Lamour. , legitimate, scientific
Lamouroux, J.V. (1813), Essai sur les genres de la famille des Thalassiophytes non articulees. Annales du Museum d'Histoire Naturelle 20: 283, pl. 13, fig.3 [tax. nov.]
  • Type locality: Nouv. Holl.
  • Type specimen: [Type category unknown]: Caen: [Accession No. unknown]
Kützing [Kuetzing], F.T. (1849), Species Algarum [i]-vi, [1]-922: 497 [basionym]
basionym of: Chauvinia flexilis (J.V.Lamour.) Kütz. legitimate
Huisman, J.M. (2000), Marine Plants of Australia: - [secondary reference]
nomenclatural synonym: Chauvinia flexilis (J.V.Lamour.) Kütz. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Fucus hypnoides R.Br. ex Turner nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Caulerpa turneri J.V.Lamour. legitimate taxonomic synonym: Caulerpa hypnoides C.Agardh nom. inval., nom. nud. taxonomic synonym: Chauvinia hypnoides (C.Agardh) Kütz. legitimate
  • APC Comment: ABRS (2011) uses this taxon concept.
ABRS (2011), Australian Algal Name Index Edn. 2011: - [secondary reference]
  • Comment: C. Agardh Syst. Al. I :443 states 'In mari Australi. "Vade de l'Esperance", secund Labillardiere, qui detexit & specima dedit'. Weber v.-Bosse 1898 Ann. Jar. Bot. Buitenzorg 15:343 states the authentic specimen is in CN; QLD distribution questioned by Lewis (1987:21).
  • AMANI dist.: New South Wales (Peronian), Victoria (Flindersian), Tasmania (Flindersian), South Australia (Flindersian), Western Australia (Flindersian), Queensland (Great Barrier Reef). World: New Zealand.