marina,[8] and was subsequently treated as a full species in different genera, including Arenaria and Spergula.

In 1822 Wilibald S. J. G. von Besser created the name Spergularia marina, but based his analysis on a 1788 species name in Arenaria published by Albrecht Wilhelm Roth, who intended to move Linnaeus' variety to a full species.

Besser's name Spergularia marina is now considered to be based on Allioni's name and consequently on Linnaeus' variety name; it brings nomenclatural priority from 1785.

[11] A further error that has caused authors to come to different conclusions about the correct name for the species, is a name thought to have been published by Peter Simon Pallas in 1776.

That phantom name came about because Carl Friedrich von Ledebour cited it after misreading Arenaria maritima as A.