Ulva bullata Poiret, 1808a: 175 (type locality: Siriac, Bretagne, France).
Rivularia bullata (Poiret) Berkeley, 1832 [1832–1833]: 8.—Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 43–44.— Lambert, Steinke, & Naidoo, 1989: 488, fig. 27, tables 2, 3.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia (Timor), South Africa.
Note: Drouet (1973: 165, 185), after examining the holotype of this species (in PC), assigned it to Calothrix crustacea Thuret.