Fucus cephalornithos Labillardière, 1807 [1806–1807]: 114, pl. 261 (type locality: "ad capitis Van-Diemen'' [Storm Bay, Tasmania fide Ducker, 1979b: 20]).
Caulocystis cephalornithos (Labillardière) Areschoug, 1854b: 335.—Womersley, 1987: 360.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia.