Porphyra vietnamensis T. Tanaka & Pham-Hoàng Hô, 1962: 34–36, figs. 10, 11 (type locality: Vung-Tan, Vietnam).—Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1963: 173–174, figs. 1, 2.— C.S.P. Rao, 1964: 153–154, figs. 1, 2 (conchocelis phase).— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1964: 599, 600.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1967: 127, pl. I: fig. 2.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 42.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 16.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970a: 4, pl. 2: fig. 11.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 34, fig. 30.— A. Sarma & Ganapati, 1973: 146, table 1.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1973c: 688, 691.— A. Sarma & Ganapati, 1974: 383, 390, tables I, II.— M. Joseph, 1978a: 18.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1978: 54.— S. Dixit, 1980: 69.— Dhargalkar, Agadi, & Untawale, 1981: 75–77, fig. 3, pl. 1.— Shameel & Moazzam, 1982a: 6.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [26].— V. Krishnamurthy & Baluswami, 1984: 34–35.— Agadi, 1985: 38.— Jagtap, 1985b: 89–91, tables 1, 2.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1985b: table 1.— Moazzam & Shameel, 1985: 149–150, fig. 8.— Subba Rangaiah, 1985a: 125.— G. Rao & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 103.— Satyanarayana Rao & Ganapati, 1986: 576.— Subba Rangaiah, 1986: 29–33, figs. 1–3.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 104–105, fig. 9A.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1987a: 23.— Deshmukhe, 1989: 133, 134, pl. I: figs. 2–5.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: fig. 2, tables 1, 2.— Desikachary, V. Krishnamurthy, & M. Balakrishnan, 1990: 36–37, fig. 4, pl. II.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1990: 325, tables 3, 5.— G. Rao & Subba Rangaiah, 1991: 353.— Hayee-Memon et al., 1992b: 9.— G. Rao, 1992: 12.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 43.— Shameel & Aftab, 1993: 12–15, figs. 1–6.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 118.
Misapplied names (fide V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 16):
Porphyra naiadum.—Sreeramulu, 1952b: 285–286.
Porphyra tenera.—Børgesen, 1937b: 319.— K. Srinivasan, 1961a: 226.— S. Dixit, 1966: 10.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 10, pl. X.— S. Dixit, 1980: 69.
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