Chauvinia macrophysa Sonder ex Kützing, 1857: 6, pl. 15: fig. II (type locality: Central America).
Caulerpa macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) G. Murray, 1887: 38 (including Indian Ocean records).—S. Dixit, 1970: 109.
Caulerpa racemosa (Forsskål) J. Agardh [var. clavifera] forma macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) Weber-van Bosse, 1898: 361, pl. XXXIII: fig. 4.—Isaac, 1956a: 166, 168, fig. 4, pl. XXXVI:A.— Pocock, 1958: 24.— Gerloff, 1960: 620.— Isaac, 1967: 76.— Jaasund, 1976: 25, fig. 50.— Jaasund, 1977d: 513.— Lawson, 1980: 5.— Seagrief, 1980: 21, fig. on pl. 2.— Teo & Wee, 1983: 63, fig. 63.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 57.
Caulerpa clavifera (Turner) C. Agardh forma macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) Svedelius, 1906a: 120–122, fig. 13 (including Indian Ocean record).
Caulerpa racemosa (Forsskål) J. Agardh var. macrophysa (Sonder ex Kützing) W.R. Taylor, 1928: 101.—S. Dixit, 1933: 35, pl. 5.— Gilbert, 1942: 19.— Sigee, 1966: 69.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 351.— Tsuda & Newhouse, 1966: 95.— W.R. Taylor, 1967: 50.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 39.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 29.— Egerod, 1974: 142, figs. 39, 40.— Egerod, 1975: 55.— Velasquez & Lewmanomont, 1975: 9.— Hackett, 1977: 23.— D. Rao et al., 1991: tables 1, 2.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 23 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 117.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Indonesia, Kenya, Maldives (Addu Atoll), Mozambique, Nicobar Islands, Seychelles, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Yemen.