Conferva prolifera Roth, 1797: 182–183, pl. III: fig. 2 (type locality: "in mare Corsicam'').—Krauss, 1846: 215.— Areschoug, 1851: 12.
Cladophora prolifera (Roth) Kützing, 1843b: 271.—G. Murray, 1887: 42.— Eyre, Broekhuysen, & Crichton, 1938: 93, 102, 107.— Eyre & Stephenson, 1938: 33.— Levring, 1938: 11.— Stephenson, 1939: 533.— Stephenson, 1944: 300.— Isaac & Chamberlain, 1958: 124, fig. 1.— Pocock, 1958: 24.— T. Rao & V. Rao, 1963: pl. V: fig. 6, tables 1a,c, I.— Isaac, 1967: 76.— S. Dixit, 1970: 106.— Agadi & Untawale, 1978: 63, table 2.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1256, 1257.— Pichon, 1978: 323, 412.— Lawson, 1980: 9.— van den Hoek, 1982: 169.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [10].— van den Hoek & Womersley, 1984: 193–194, figs. 62A, 63A,B.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 14, pl. 22.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1989: table I.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: table 1.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 357–358.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 149.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 116.— Phang, 1994b: 125.
Taxonomic synonym:
* Cladophora rugulosa G. Martens, 1868: 112, pl. II: fig. 3 (lectotype locality: Port Natal [Durban], South Africa fide Papenfuss, 1943a: 80).—De Toni, 1889: 306.— Papenfuss, 1943a: 79–80.— Stephenson, 1944: 349.— Stephenson, 1947: 296.— Womersley, 1956: 359.— Seagrief, 1967: 22, pl. [5].— Simons, 1969: 246, fig. (s.n.).— Egerod, 1975: 45, figs. 5–7, 12.— Papenfuss & Chihara, 1975: 313, figs. 12, 13.— Jackson, 1976: 17, 20, 21, 32.— Jaasund, 1977d: 510.— Seagrief, 1977: 90.— Simons, 1977: 17, fig. 23.— Lawson, 1980: 9.— Seagrief, 1980: 21, fig. on pl. 1.— Crane, 1981: 150–151, fig. 8.— Lambert & Steinke, 1986a: 54.— Lambert & Steinke, 1986b: 211, 213, 215.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 168.— Seagrief, 1988: 37, 40, fig. 5:2.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 57.— Branch et al., 1994: 308.
Apjohnia rugulosa (G. Martens) G. Murray, 1891: 209 (including Indian Ocean record).—Barton, 1893: 56.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 96.
Misapplied names:
Conferva trichotoma.—Drège, 1843: 157.— Areschoug, 1851: 13.
Cladophora trichotoma.—Barton, 1893: 55.
Cladophora saviniana.—Jaasund, 1976: 7, fig. 13.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Yemen.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by van den Hoek (1982: 169). The misapplication of Conferva trichotoma and Cladophora trichotoma was noted by Papenfuss (1943a: 80), that of Cladophora saviniana by Jaasund (1977d: 510).