Ascherson, P.F.A. (1876), Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin: 11 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "Sie erstreckt sich von Cap York (M.) bis Neuseeland (Auckland, N. ...)"

Thompson, J. (1961), Zosteraceae. Contributions from the New South Wales National Herbarium, Flora Series 13: 75 [secondary reference]

Beadle, N.C.W., Evans, O.D. & Carolin, R.C. (1962), Handbook of the Vascular Plants of the Sydney District and Blue Mountains: 427 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 330 [secondary reference]

Jacobs, S.W.L. & Pickard, J. (1981), Plants of New South Wales: 60 [secondary reference]

Robertson, E.L. in Womersley, H.B S. (1984), Seagrasses. The marine benthic flora of southern Australia 1: 122, Fig. 38, 39 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: from Moreton Bay, Queensland (Naumann 10.x.1875); in UC.

Stanley, T.D. in Stanley, T.D. & Ross, E.M. (1989), Zosteraceae. Flora of South-eastern Queensland 3: 17, Fig. 4A [secondary reference]

common name: Eelgrass [n/a]

Jacobs, S.W.L. in Harden, G.J. (ed.) (1993), Zosteraceae. Flora of New South Wales 4: 27, pl. 2 [secondary reference]

Conn, B.J. in Walsh, N.G. & Entwisle, T.J. (ed.) (1994), Flowering Plants (Magnoliophyta). Flora of Victoria Edn. 1, 2: Fig. 34n [secondary reference]

Green, P.S. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (1994), Norfolk Island & Lord Howe Island. Flora of Australia 49: 407 [secondary reference]

Tomlinson, P.B. & Posluszny, U. (2001), Generic limits in the seagrass family Zosteraceae. Taxon 50: 432 [basionym]

basionym of: Nanozostera capricorni (Asch.) Toml. & Posl. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - [nomenclatural synonym]

nomenclatural synonym of: Zostera muelleri subsp. capricorni (Asch.) S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate

Jacobs, S.W.L., Les, D.H. & Moody, M.L. (27 April 2006), New combinations in Australasian Zostera (Zosteraceae). Telopea 11(2): 128 [basionym]

basionym of: Zostera muelleri subsp. capricorni (Asch.) S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate

Kuo, J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Zosteraceae. Flora of Australia 39: 140-141, Plate 31, Fig. 33I-L [secondary reference]

nomenclatural synonym: Zostera muelleri subsp. capricorni (Asch.) S.W.L.Jacobs legitimate

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