Spyridia squalida J. Agardh, 1876: 270–271 (type locality: "Ad Novam Hollandiam australem'').—De Toni, 1903: 1436.— Lucas & Perrin, 1947: 364.— Womersley & Cartledge, 1975: 229, 231, figs. 3H,I, 4D,E.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia.
Note: Sonder (1880: 16) applied the name Spyridia valida, without a description or illustration, to a collection from Geographe Bay, Western Australia, which was assigned to S. squalida by Womersley & Cartledge (l.c.).