Corallina fragilissima Linnaeus, Systema Naturae, ed. 10, 1: 806. 1758.

"Habitat in Indiis."

Lectotype (Johansen in Spencer & al. in Taxon, in press): Herb. Linn. No. 1293.20 (LINN) .

Current name: Amphiroa fragilissima (L.) J.V. Lamour. ( Corallinaceae).

Note: Although Manza (in Philippine J. Sci. 71: 299. 1940) referred to having seen photographs of "the Linnaean type", he did not indicate what this might be.