Koenig, K.D.E. in Koenig, K.D.E. & Sims, J. (ed.) (1805), Addition to M. Cavolini's treatise on Zostera oceania L. Annals of Botany 2(1): 96 [tax. nov.]

• Type: (not designated).

Ascherson, P.F.A. (1867), Vorarbeiten zu einer Uebersicht der phanerogamen Meergewachse. Linnaea: ein Journal für die Botanik in ihrem ganzen Umfange, oder Beiträge zur Pflanzenkunde 35(2): 159 [secondary reference]

Rydberg, P.A. (1912), North American Flora 17: 73 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: Thalassia testudinum König

Hartog, C. den (December 1957), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora Malesiana Series I 5(4): 405-407 [secondary reference]

Aston, H.I. (1973), Aquatic Plants of Australia: 235-236 [secondary reference]

Cronquist, A.J. (1981), An Integrated System of Classification of Flowering Plants: 1053, 1054 [secondary reference]

Rye, B.L. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 969 [secondary reference]

Telford, I.R.H. (1993), Hydrocharitaceae. Flora of Australia 50: 427 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schizotheca Ehrenb. legitimate

Cook, C.D.K. in Kubitzki, K. (ed.) (1998), Hydrocharitaceae. The Families and Genera of Vascular Plants 4: 247, Fig. 61I-L [secondary reference]

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2006), Australian Plant Census: - APC [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schizotheca Ehrenb. legitimate

• APC Dist.: WA, CoI, AR, CaI, NT, Qld

Mabberley, D.J. (1 May 2008), Mabberley's Plant-Book Edn. 3: 851 [secondary reference]

Kuo, J. in Wilson, A.J.G. (ed.) (2011), Thalassia. Flora of Australia 39: 34 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Schizotheca Ehrenb. legitimate

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