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

"Habitat in Mari Europam australem & Americam meridionalem alluente." RCN: 8390.

Lectotype (Irvine in Spencer & al. in Taxon, in press): [icon] " Conferva ramosa, geniculis longioribus cateniformibus " in Dillenius, Hist. Musc.: 27, t. 5, f. 27. 1741. - Voucher: Herb. Dillenius (OXF) .

Current name: Cladophora catenata (L.) Kütz . ( Cladophoraceae).

Note: Van den Hoek (Revis. Eur. Sp. Cladophora: 19, 123. 1963) designated material in the Dillenius herbarium as the type but as this was not studied by Linnaeus, it cannot be original material for the name.