Sphacelaria novae-hollandiae Sonder, 1845: 50 (`novae hollandiae') (type locality: Western Australia [probably near Fremantle]).—Sonder, 1846 [1846–1848]: 154.— J. Agardh, 1848b: 32.— Harvey, 1855b: 536.— Harvey, 1863: xiv.— Sonder, 1880: 9.— Askenasy, 1888: 21, pl. V: figs. 15, 16.— Sauvageau, 1901: 247–251, fig. 33.— Sauvageau, 1903 [1903–1914]: 137–141, fig. 33.— Børgesen, 1941: 45–46, fig. 20.— Womersley, 1967: 200.— Isaac, 1968: 2.— Jaasund, 1969: 263–264, fig. 10.— Rhyne, 1971: 56.— Jaasund, 1976: 37, fig. 77.— Hackett, 1977: 28.— Jaasund, 1977d: 515.— Lawson, 1980: 30.— Islam & Aziz, 1983: 644, pl. I: figs. 1–4; pl. IV: figs. 23, 24.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Womersley, 1987: 158, 160, figs. 45E, 50A–H.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 296, pl. 4: fig. 32.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 373.— Anilkumar & Panikkar, 1992: 133, figs. 18–27.— Basson, 1992: 220.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 151.— Ballesteros, 1994: 538.— Wynne, 1995: 323.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Bangladesh, Diego Garcia Atoll, India, Kenya, Kuwait, Maldives, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles (Mahé Island), South Africa, Tanzania.
Note: In accordance with Art. 23.1 in conjunction with Art. 60.9, the original epithet, novae hollandiae, is correctable to novae-hollandiae, a form first used by Sauvageau (1901: 247–251).