Oscillatoria proboscidea Gomont, 1892b: 209, pl. 6: figs. 10, 11 (lectotype locality: road from Basse-Terre to Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, West Indies).—N. Anand et al., 1986: 52–53, fig. 15.— Lambert, Steinke, & Naidoo, 1989: 485, fig. 19, tables 2, 3.— G. Subramanian et al., 1989: 316.— Thajuddin & G. Subramanian, 1992a: table III.— Mann & Steinke, 1993: 5.— A. Phillips et al., 1994: 571.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, South Africa.
Note: Drouet (1968: 176, 183) chose a specimen in PC as the lectotype of this species and assigned it to Oscillatoria princeps Vaucher.