Summary The type material of Cordylecladia andersonii Grunow (=Gracilaria andersonii (Grunow) Kylin) is similar to the type material of the common North American species of Gracilaria (Gigartinales), G. sjoestedtii Kylin, which in turn is identical with Gracilaria lemaneiformis (Bory) Weber‐van Bosse, previously known from Pacific South America. Gracilaria andersonii of Kylin, on the other hand, which takes its epithet from C. andersonii, is a distinct species and is here named Gracilaria papenfussii, new species.
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Isabella A. Abbott (1983) studied this question.