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IOC entry for Caulerpa cupressoides

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Caulerpa cupressoides (Vahl) C. Agardh

Fucus cupressoides Vahl, 1802: 38 (type locality: St. Croix, Virgin Islands).

Caulerpa cupressoides (Vahl) C. Agardh, 1817: XXIII.—Hieronymus, 1895b: 24.— Svedelius, 1906a: 115.— Reinbold, 1907: 555.— Weber-van Bosse, 1908: 171–172.— Weber-van Bosse, 1909: 381–382.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 103.— D. Dixit, 1926: 225 "var.?''.— Børgesen, 1940: 50–51.— Gilbert, 1942: 16 ("var. typica'').— Børgesen, 1946: 38–39 ("var. typica'').— Børgesen, 1951: 9–10 ("var. typica'').— Børgesen, 1953: 8.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 11.— Isaac, 1958: 20, 21, fig. 6e.— Pocock, 1958: 24, fig. 6c.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 28.— Varma, 1961: 224.— Chassé, 1963: 239.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 350 (var. cupressoides).— Isaac, 1967: 76.— W.R. Taylor, 1967: 47.— S. Dixit, 1968: 15.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 39 ("var. typica'').— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 5.— Rhyne, 1971: 50.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 46, pl. XLVI.— Jaasund, 1976: 21, fig. 41.— Jackson, 1976: 32.— Jaasund, 1977d: 512.— Subbaramaiah, Nair, & V. Krishnamurthy, 1977: 74.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1254.— Sartoni, 1978: 402, 404, fig. 2b.— Titlyanova & Butorin, 1978: 20.— Seagrief, 1980: 21, fig. on pl. 1.— Russell, 1981: 466.— Gopinathan & Panigrahy, 1983: 49.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [11].— Aleem, 1984: 926.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1984: 100 (table 1).— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 100–101.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— Raghukumar, 1987a: table 1.— Banaimoon, 1988b: 237.— Walker, Kendrick, & McComb, 1988: 313.— Duraiswamy, 1989: figs. 3f, 6b, 7c, 8b, 9c, 11l, table 2.— Untawale, Reddy, & Ambiye, 1989: table 1.— Coppejans & Beeckman, 1990: 113–114, pl. 1: figs. 3–7.— Duraiswamy, 1990a: 77–79, fig. 9.— Duraiswamy, 1990b: fig. 11F, table II.— Huisman et al., 1990: 90.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 364.— Jayasankar, Ramalingam, & Kaliaperumal, 1990: table 1.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 49.— M. Littler, D. Littler, & Titlyanov, 1991: 203, fig. 3D, tables 3, 4.— D. Subramanian, 1991: 70.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 121.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 23 (table 1).— Titlyanov et al., 1992: 16, 19 (tables 1, 2).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Jayasankar & Ramalingam, 1993: 42.— D. Subramanian, 1993: 207.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 117.— Titlyanov et al., 1994: 258, 259.— Khotimchenko, 1995: 509.

Taxonomic synonym:

* Chauvinia indica Sonder ex Kützing, 1857: 5, pl. 10: fig. I (type locality: "Indischer Ocean'').—G. Martens, 1868: 64–65.

Misapplied name (fide Børgesen, 1946: 39):

Caulerpa clavifera.—Jadin, 1935: 156 (in part; see also C. cupressoides var. plumarioides [p. 818]).

INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Amirante Islands, Andaman Islands, Australia, Chagos Archipelago (Egmont Atoll), Diego Garcia Atoll, Farquhar Islands, India, Indonesia (Java; Lombok), Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Madagascar, Mauritius (including Agalega Islands), Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Yemen.

Note: The synonymy was proposed by Weber-van Bosse (1898: 323). Coppejans (1992: 391) and Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine (1992b: 686) treated Caulerpa urvilleana Montagne (q.v.) as an ecad of C. cupressoides.

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