Fucus ilicifolius Turner, 1807–1808: 113–114, pl. 51 (type locality: Sunda Strait, Indonesia).—Lamouroux, 1813: 36.— Mertens, 1819: 180–181.
Sargassum ilicifolium (Turner) C. Agardh, 1820a: 11.—C. Agardh, 1824: 296.— Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1834: 162.— Kützing, 1843b: 361.— J. Agardh, 1848b: 318.— Zanardini, 1872: 129.— Dickie, 1874b: 190.— Dickie, 1877b: 6.— Theobald, 1883: 27.— Piccone, 1886: 45–46.— G. Murray, 1887: 34.— J. Agardh, 1889: 94.— Piccone, 1889b: 70.— Reinbold, 1891b: 69–70.— Prain, 1892: 288, 341, 359.— Kjellman, 1893a: 288.— De Toni, 1895b: 56.— Reinbold, 1895a: 25.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 157.— De Wildeman, 1900: 381.— Reinbold, 1907: 561.— Reinbold in Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 160–161.— Grunow, 1915 [1915–1916]: 402.— Stephenson, 1947: 300.— Biswas & Sharma, 1950: 90, pl. 2: fig. 4; pl. 3: fig. 5.— Durairatnam, 1956a: 4.— Durairatnam, 1961b: 2.— Thivy, 1964: 27.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1964: 600.— Salim, 1965: 193, 195.— Misra, 1967: 233.— K. Srinivasan, 1967: 144, fig. 42.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1967: 126.— S. Dixit, 1968: 18.— Gowda & G. Joshi, 1969: 416–417.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 42.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 14.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 33.— Gowda & G. Joshi, 1971: 388.— Isaac, 1971: 11.— G. Joshi, 1973: 31, table II.— Karekar & G. Joshi, 1973a: 384.— Islam, 1974b: 87.— G. Joshi & Karekar, 1974: 489, 490, tables I–III.— G. Joshi et al., 1974: 51.— Gowda, 1975: 73–75, table 1.— G. Joshi & Gowda, 1975: 165–168, tables 1, 2.— Islam, 1976: 47, pl. 31: figs. 206a–r; pl. 46: fig. 266; pl. 47: fig. 267; pl. 48: fig. 274.— Jaasund, 1976: 57, fig. 114.— Jaasund, 1977d: 518.— Agadi & Untawale, 1978: 66, table 2.— Chauhan, 1978: 2, 4, table 4.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1978: 53.— Knutzen & Jaasund, 1979: 4.— Shitole & G. Joshi, 1979: 21.— Dhargalkar, Jagtap, & Untawale, 1980: table 2.— Lawson, 1980: 28.— Nair & Thampy, 1980: 279.— Chennubhotla et al., 1982: 195–196, figs. 1, 2.— Agadi, 1983: 29.— Gopinathan & Panigrahy, 1983: 50.— Teo & Wee, 1983: 75–76, fig. 75.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [23], fig. 26.— Agadi, 1985: 38.— Mshigeni, 1985: 16.— Ross, 1985: 464.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, Sreenivasa Rao, & Karmarkar, 1986a: 6–8.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, Sreenivasa Rao, & Karmarkar, 1986b: 25, 27.— Phang, 1986: 42.— Satyanarayana Rao & Ganapati, 1986: 576.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 104–105.— Silas & Kalimuthu, 1987: 56.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 20, pl. 38c.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, Sreenivasa Rao, & Karmarkar, 1988a: 295.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, 1989a: 24, table 1.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: table 4.— Phang, 1989: 86.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1989: table I.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: tables 1, 2.— Kaliaperumal, Kalimuthu, & Ramalingam, 1990: table 2.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1990: 324, tables 2, 6–8.— Avelin Mary, Sivasakthi, & Vitalina Mary, 1991: 176.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, Sreenivasa Rao, & Karmarkar, 1991: 15, table 1.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 61.— Velayutham & Jayachandran, 1991: 135.— Bhakuni et al., 1992: 515.— Kaliaperumal et al., 1992: 12.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 122.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 22 (table 1).— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 42.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.— Zvyagintsev & Ivin, 1992: 8 (table 1). 11 (table 4).— Kaliaperumal & Kalimuthu, 1993: 9, 11, fig. 10.— Rama Rao et al., 1993: 106.— Ballesteros, 1994: 543.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 117.
Carpacanthus ilicifolius (Turner) Kützing, 1849: 625.—Kützing, 1861: 15, pl. 46: figs. Ia–e.— G. Martens, 1868: 27, 78–79.— G. Martens, 1869b: 456.— G. Martens, 1871b: 466.— Möbius, 1893: 137.
Taxonomic synonym:
* Sargassum sandei Reinbold in Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 158–160, fig. 47, pl. IV: figs. 1, 2 (type locality: south coast of Flores, Indonesia).—Sivalingam, 1977b: 206.— Sivalingam, 1980b: table 1.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 61.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, Burma (Coco Group), Gulf of Aden, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Malaysia, Mauritius, Nicobar Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Rodriguez Island, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Yemen.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by Noro, Ajisaka, & Yoshida (1994: 30).