Conferva confervicola Dillwyn, 1802 [1802–1809]: pl. 8 (lectotype locality: Aberystwyth, Cardigan, Wales fide Drouet, 1973: 164).
Calothrix confervicola (Dillwyn) C. Agardh, 1824: 70.—Sonder, 1881: 106.— Askenasy, 1888: 2.— Jadin, 1894: CLXXIII.— Forti, 1907: 606–607.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 91 (`C. confervoides', in error).— Frémy, 1939: 56.— Newton, 1955a: 102.— Newton, 1955b: 144.— Islam, 1974b: 90.— Islam, 1976: 73, pl. 72: fig. 419; pl. 73: figs. 436–438.— Basson et al., 1977: 225.— Basson, 1979: 67, pl. IX: fig. 50.— S. Dixit, 1980: 59.— Allender, 1981: 22.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [41].— D. Jones, 1986: 28, pl. 3.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 307, pl. 11: fig. 98.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 16 (table 1).— S. Silva, 1992a: 114–115, fig. 32.— S. Silva, 1992b: 108, figs. 29, 30.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 42.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Kuwait, Mauritius, Mozambique, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, South Africa.
Note: Drouet (1973: 163–164) chose a specimen in OXF as the lectotype of this species and assigned it to Calothrix crustacea Thuret.