Ulva stellata Wulfen in Jacquin, 1787: 351–352 (type locality: Adriatic Sea).
Anadyomene stellata (Wulfen) C. Agardh, 1823 [1822–1823]: 400.—Bornet, 1885: 17.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 74–75.— Iyengar & Ramanathan, 1940: 175–176.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 11.— Gerloff, 1960: 618.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 30, pl. V: fig. 5.— Isaac, 1967: 77.— Lawson, 1969: 336.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 38.— S. Dixit, 1970: 107.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 8.— Farghaly, 1980: 71–72.— Lawson, 1980: 2.— Moorjani, 1980b: 463.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [14].— Jagtap, 1985a: 46, 50.— Kaliaperumal et al., 1992: 12.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 122.— Critchley et al., 1994: 262.
Taxonomic synonym:
Anadyomene flabellata Lamouroux, 1812: 187 (type locality: "in Corsicae mare'' later (Lamouroux, 1816: 366) stated to be "Dans la Mousse de Corse des pharmaciens'' [Alsidium helminthochorton]).—G. Murray, 1887: 40.
Misapplied name (fide Gerloff, 1960: 618):
Anadyomene brownii.—Schröder, 1912: 296.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Andaman Islands, India, Indonesia (Timor), Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Sri Lanka, Tanzania.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by C. Agardh (1823 [1822–1823]: 400).