Protococcus minor Kützing, 1845: 144 (type locality: "An Brettern und Holz in und ausser dem Wasser'' [Nordhausen, Erfurt District, Germany fide Drouet & Daily, 1956: 163]).
Chroococcus minor (Kützing) Nägeli, 1849: 46.—Zeller, 1873: 175.— Theobald, 1883: 24.— Desikachary, 1959: 105.— N. Anand et al., 1986: 50, fig. 1.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 306.— G. Subramanian et al., 1989: 310, 311, 313–317, 320.— S. Silva, 1991: 145, 149, figs. 2.2–2.4, tables 1, 2.— Thajuddin & G. Subramanian, 1992a: table III.
Pleurococcus minor (Kützing) Rabenhorst, 1863a: 127.—Basson, 1992: 223.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Burma, India, Kuwait, Mozambique.
Note: Drouet & Daily (1956: 163), after examining the holotype of this species (in L), assigned it to a green alga, Stichococcus subtilis (Kützing) Klercker.