Adjective (Latin), foreign (Stearn 1973).

NE Atlantic (Norway to Canary Is); W Mediterranean; NW Pacific (Japan); NE Pacific (Alaska to California); Australia, New Zealand.

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Hamel, G. (1937). Phéophycées de France. Fasc. III. pp. 177-240, Figs. 40-46. Paris.

Hollenberg, G.J. & Abbott, I.A. (1966). Supplement to Smith's marine algae of the Monterey Peninsula. pp. ix (xii), 1-130, 53 figs. Stanford: Stanford University Press.

Lindeberg, M.R. & Lindstrom, S.C. (2010). Field guide to the seaweeds of Alaska. pp. [i-]iii-iv, 1-188, numerous col. photographs. Fairbanks: Alaska Sea Grant College Program.

Loiseaux-de Goër, S. & Noailles, M.-C. (2008). Algues de Roscoff. pp. [1]-215, col. figs. Roscoff: Editions de la Station Biologique de Roscoff.

Pedroche, P.F., Silva, P.C., Aguilar Rosas, L.E., Dreckmann, K.M. & Aguilar Rosas, R. (2008). Catálogo de las algas benthónicas del Pacífico de México II. Phaeophycota. pp. [i-viii], i-vi, 15-146. Mexicali & Berkeley: Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and University of California Berkeley

English: Oyster Thief (Dickinson 1963)

Danish: Østerstyv

Dutch: oesterdief (de Ruijter, E.; Schoenmaker, A. (Ed.) 1989)

Syntype localities: Various in Atlantic Europe (Silva, Basson & Moe 1996: 627). Lectotype: PC herb. Sauvageau (Womersley 1987: 298). Notes: Womersley (1987: 298) gives the following data for Colpomenia peregrina (Sauvageau) Hamel 1937: Type from Brittany, France; in Herb. Sauvageau, PC.