Conferva majuscula Dillwyn, 1809 [1802–1809]: 40, suppl. pl. A (lectotype locality: England fide Drouet, 1968: 263).
Lyngbya majuscula (Dillwyn) Harvey, 1833: 370.—Harvey, 1857a: no. 84.— Dickie, 1874b: 200.— Dickie, 1877b: 7.— Sonder, 1879: 85.— G. Murray, 1887: 44.— Jadin, 1894: CLXIII.— Hieronymus, 1895a: 9.— Barton, 1896: 193.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 7.— De Wildeman, 1900: 35–36.— Forti, 1907: 268–271.— Reinbold, 1907: 553.— Schröder, 1912: 294.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 14–15.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 91.— Børgesen, 1935: 7.— Børgesen, 1936: 60.— Frémy, 1939: 55.— Frémy, 1941: 21, 27.— Biswas, 1943: 112.— Iyengar & Desikachary, 1944: 60–62, fig. 27.— Newton, 1953: 399, 416.— Pocock, 1958: 24.— Venkataraman, 1958: 473.— Desikachary, 1959: 313–314, pl. 48: fig. 7; pl. 49: fig. 12; pl. 52: fig. 10.— Varma, 1959: 249.— Gerloff, 1960: 607.— Macnae & Kalk, 1962: 98.— Sigee, 1966: 68.— Tsuda & Newhouse, 1966: 94.— S. Dixit, 1968: 12.— Isaac, 1968: 1.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 25.— Subbaramaiah, 1971b: 20, 21.— Subbaramaiah, Nair, & V. Krishnamurthy, 1977: 76.— Pichon, 1978: 179, 253, 416.— Beckley & McLachlan, 1979: fig. 5.— Whitton & Potts, 1979b: 4, 5.— Farghaly, 1980: 140.— Russell, 1981: 467.— V. Rao, Lilly, & Sundaralingam, 1982: 87, figs. 1, 2.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [41].— Jagtap & Untawale, 1984: 123, tables 1, 2.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1984: 100 (table 1).— N. Anand & Venkatesan, 1985: 101, fig. 1.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 34.— D. Jones, 1986: 28, pl. 3.— Phang, 1986: 19.— G. Rao & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 104.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 31, pl. 67.— Phang, 1989: 87–88.— G. Subramanian et al., 1989: 310–315, 317–319, 321.— Bensam et al., 1991: 104.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 56.— S. Silva, 1991: 147, 149, fig. 3.1, tables 1–3.— Bhakuni et al., 1992: 515.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 124.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 16 (table 1).— S. Silva, 1992a: 113, figs. 21, 22.— S. Silva, 1992b: 105–106, fig. 21.— Thajuddin & G. Subramanian, 1992a: table III.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 42.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Naim, 1993: 145.— Rama Rao et al., 1993: 106.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Chagos Archipelago (Egmont Atoll), Djibouti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Kuwait, Laccadive Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Rodriguez Island, Seychelles, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania (Zanzibar).
Note: Drouet (1968: 263, 295) chose a specimen in LD as the lectotype of this species and assigned it to Microcoleus lyngbyaceus (Kützing) P. Crouan & H. Crouan.