The Australian Algae Name Index (AANI) is a tool for the botanical community that deals with algae names and their usage in the scientific literature, whether as a current name or synonym. AANI does not recommend any particular taxonomy or nomenclature. For a listing of currently accepted scientific names for the Australian Algae, please use the Australian Algae List (AAL) link above.
misapplied to:
DictyotaalternifidaJ.Agardhlegitimate
by May, V.(1939), A key to the marine algae of New South Wales. Part 2. Melanophyceae.Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales64: 201
Comment:Womersley 1967:211 states that the Sonder specimens in MEL #17062 are Dilophus angustus = D. fastigiatus. These specimens were not examined by Phillips (see Phillips Aust Syst Bot 5:666-672).