Conferva corallinoides Linnaeus, Species Plantarum 2: 1166. 1753.

"Habitat in mari Europaeo, colore albo & rubenti." RCN: 8389.

Lectotype (Irvine in Spencer & al. in Taxon, in press): [icon] " Conferva marina gelatinosa, Corallinae instar geniculata, crassior " in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 33, t. 6, f. 36. 1741. - Voucher: Herb. Dillenius (OXF) .

Current name: Griffithsia corallinoides (L.) Trevis. ( Ceramiaceae).

Note: Although Irvine (in Maggs & Hommersand, Seaweeds Brit. Isles 1(3A): 184. 2001) indicated unspecified material in Herb. Dillenius at OXF as the holotype, this material was not studied by Linnaeus and it is not original material for the name.