Conferva ornata C. Agardh, 1824: 104 (type locality: Lake Mälaren, near Stockholm, Sweden).
Asterocytis ornata (C. Agardh) G. Hamel, 1924: 451.—Børgesen, 1939b: 102.— Børgesen, 1942b: 5.— Newton, 1955a: 101.— Newton, 1955b: 142.— S. Dixit, 1970: 115.— Jaasund, 1976: 59, fig. 120.— Hackett, 1977: 14.— Jaasund, 1977c: 415.— Lawson, 1980: 34.
Chroodactylon ornatum (C. Agardh) Basson, 1979: 67, pl. IX: fig. 52.—Moazzam & Shameel, 1985: 145, fig. 4.— D. Jones, 1986: 33, pl. 8.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 299–300.— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 34.— Basson, 1992: 224.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 16 (table 1).— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 42–43.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 42.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Maldives, Mauritius, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Tanzania.
Note: The generic name Asterocytis has often been erroneously spelled Asterocystis.