Ceramium cliftonianum J. Agardh, 1876: 93 (type locality: Western Australia).—Sonder, 1880: 12.— De Toni, 1903: 1449–1450.— Lucas, 1909: 53.— Womersley, 1978: 240–242, figs. 4G,H, 15F–J.— Allender, 1981: 19, 20, 22.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 421.
Apona cliftoniana (J. Agardh) Kuntze, 1898: 395.
Misapplied names (fide Womersley, l.c.):
Ceramium fastigiatum.—Harvey, 1855b: 557.— Harvey, 1863: xlviii.— Sonder, 1880: 12.— Lucas, 1909: 53.— Lucas & Perrin, 1947: 366, fig. 184.
Ceramium tenuissimum.—Lucas, 1909: 53.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia.