Anabaina pseudoscillatoria Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1822a: 308 (`pseudo-oscillatoria') (type locality: not specified [Everquem, near Gent, Belgium fide Drouet, 1978: 157, 186]).
Anabaina oscillarioides Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1831: 29, nom. illeg.—Drouet, 1978: 156–199, figs. 32–42.— Farghaly, 1980: 143.— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 34, fig. 12.— Basson, 1992: 223.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Bahrain, Burma, India, Kuwait, Madagascar, Maldives.
Note: Bory de Saint-Vincent changed the epithet of this specific name without explanation. He has been followed in this regard by all subsequent authors. Among numerous taxonomic synonyms cited by Drouet (1978) are six that are listed separately in this catalogue. (See the appended Reconciliation with Drouetian Classification [p. 79].)