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Halimeda tuna (Ellis & Solander) Lamouroux

Corallina tuna Ellis & Solander, 1786: 111, pl. 20: fig. e (type locality: Mediterranean Sea).

Halimeda tuna (Ellis & Solander) Lamouroux, 1816: 309.—Montagne & Millardet, 1862: 5.— Grunow, 1867: 35.— Dickie, 1877b: 7.— G. Murray, 1887: 39.— De Toni, 1889: 518–519.— Barton, 1901: 11–13, pl. I: figs. 1, 4a–6.— Herdman, 1903: 47, 85, 90.— Svedelius, 1906b: 195.— Reinbold, 1907: 556.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 180.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 390.— Iyengar, 1927: 187.— Børgesen, 1930b: 161–162.— Børgesen, 1934b: 20.— Jadin, 1935: 157.— Børgesen, 1940: 60.— Børgesen, 1946: 43.— Purchon & Enoch, 1954: 58.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 11.— Lind, 1956: 26.— Hillis, 1959: 342–345, pl. 1: figs. 4, 5; pl. 5: fig. 9; pl. 6: fig. 7; pl. 9.— Gerloff, 1960: 623.— Chuang, 1961: 42, pl. 3: 1.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 25.— Varma, 1961: 221, 224.— Kappanna, Sitakara Rao, & Syama Sundar, 1962: 381.— S. Dixit, 1966: 5.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 354.— Isaac, 1967: 77.— Johnson, 1967b: 29, fig. 2.— Langalia, Seshadri, & Datar, 1967: tables 2, 3.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 27.— Cabanis, Chabouis, & Chabouis, 1969: 309.— Nizamuddin, 1969: 262, 264–265, fig. 39, pl. X.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 40.— H. Dave, Sitakara Rao, & Tipnis, 1970: 68.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 8.— Gopalakrishnan, 1971: tables I–IV.— Rhyne, 1971: 53.— Chauhan & V. Krishnamurthy, 1972: 2.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— Saifullah, 1973: 142.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 39, pl. XXXIX.— M. Dave & Parekh, 1975: 43.— Sartoni, 1975: 286.— Jaasund, 1976: 31, fig. 61.— Sartoni, 1976: 124.— Hackett, 1977: 26.— Jaasund, 1977d: 514.— Chauhan, 1978: table 4.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 33.— Murthy, Bhattacharya, & Radia, 1978: 382.— Pichon, 1978: 151, 236, 414.— Titlyanova & Butorin, 1978: 20.— Sartoni, 1979: 286–287, figs. 5, 7D.— Hillis-Colinvaux, 1980: 122–124.— Lawson, 1980: 14.— Russell, 1981: 467.— Sreenivasa Rao & Parekh, 1981: 577, table I.— Ohno & Mairh, 1982: table 1.— Sreenivasa Rao & Shelat, 1982: 93, table 2.— Teo & Wee, 1983: 52–53, fig. 51.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [14].— Jagtap, 1985a: 46.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Phang, 1985: color photo on p. 21.— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 21.— Banaimoon, 1986: 128, fig. 10.— Nair et al., 1986: 736.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 168.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 102–103.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1987: table 1.— Qari & Qasim, 1988: 451.— Tewari & H. Joshi, 1988: 393, tables VII, X.— Mairh, Ramavat, et al., 1989: 3307.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1989: table I.— Huisman et al., 1990: 90.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 49.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: fig. 5.— Nair et al., 1990: table 2.— Coppejans & Verellen, 1991: 16.— M. Littler, D. Littler, & Titlyanov, 1991: table 4.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 58.— Banaimoon, 1992: 165, table I.— Bhakuni et al., 1992: 515.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992a: 176.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 24 (table 1).— Naqvi et al., 1992: 132.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 27.— Titlyanov et al., 1992: 17, 22 (tables 1, 2).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— V. Kumar, 1993a: 139, 140.— V. Kumar, 1993b: 47.— Qari & Qasim, 1993: 230.— Wynne, 1993: 23, fig. 13.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 117.— Titlyanov et al., 1994: 259.— E. Drew, 1995: 144.

Taxonomic synonyms:

Halimeda platydisca Decaisne, 1842b: 102 (type locality: Islas Canarias).—Pichon, 1978: 144, 414.

Halimeda tuna (Ellis & Solander) Lamouroux forma platydisca (Decaisne) Barton, 1901: 14.—Barton, 1903a: 475.— Barton, 1903b: 163, 165.— Herdman, 1903: 110 (as var. platydisca in error).— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 181.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 391.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 120.— Børgesen, 1930b: 162–163, figs. 6a,b.— Børgesen, 1936: 70–71.— Børgesen, 1940: 60–61.— Newton, 1953: 396, 397, 404.— Gerloff, 1960: 623.— Chassé, 1963: 239.— Isaac, 1967: 77.— Lawson, 1980: 14.— Untawale, Reddy, & Ambiye, 1989: table 1.

Halimeda tuna (Ellis & Solander) Lamouroux var. platydisca (Decaisne) Børgesen, 1911: 134.—Varma, 1961: 224.— S. Dixit, 1966: 5.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 354.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 8.

Halimeda cuneata Hering forma undulata Barton, 1901: 16, pl. I: figs. 10–14 (type locality: not specified).—A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 181.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 391.— Nizamuddin, 1969: 265–266, figs. 40–42, pl. XI.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 27.

INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Amirante Islands, Andaman Islands, Australia, Cargados Carajos, Chagos Archipelago (including Egmont Atoll) Diego Garcia Atoll, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nicobar Islands, Pakistan, Réunion, Rodriguez Island, Saya de Malha Bank, Seychelles, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Yemen.

Note: The records of Halimeda tuna include citations of "forma typica'', "var. typica'', and var. tuna. Hillis (1959: 347) was not able to locate the type of Halimeda cuneata forma undulata, but noted that Barton's figure shows considerable resemblance to certain Pacific specimens of H. tuna. She did not give taxonomic recognition to forma or var. platydisca. Shameel & J. Tanaka (1992: 27) cited Nizamuddin's record of H. cuneata forma undulata as H. cuneata. Mozambique is included in the distribution on the basis of specimens in UC collected by Papenfuss and Scagel and determined by Hillis-Colinvaux.

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