Plocamium preissianum Sonder, 1845: 54–55 (type locality: Western Australia).—Sonder, 1848 [1846–1848]: 192–193.— Kützing, 1849: 885.— J. Agardh, 1851 [1851–1863]: 399.— Harvey, 1855b: 553.— Harvey, 1859a: pl. LXIII.— Harvey, 1863: xxxix.— Kützing, 1866: 19, pl. 53: figs. d–f.— J. Agardh, 1876: 342.— Sonder, 1880: 18.— De Toni, 1900: 594–595.— Mazza, 1908 [1905–1918]: 13.— Lucas, 1909: 34.— De Toni & Forti, 1923: 32.— De Toni, 1924: 316.— V. May, 1965: 372.— Womersley, 1971a: 20, 22, figs. 29–35 (`preissii' as caption).— Ghisalberti & Jefferies, 1990: 100, table 3.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 409.— Womersley, 1994: 387, 389.
Nereidea preissiana (Sonder) Kuntze, 1891: 907.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia.