Ginnania carnosa Kützing, 1866: 30, pl. 83: figs. a, b (type locality: Sri Lanka).
Scinaia carnosa (Kützing) J. Agardh, 1876: 513.—G. Murray, 1887: 27.— De Toni, 1897: 105–106.— Setchell, 1914: 107, pl. 11: figs. 25–27.— De Toni, 1924: 102.— Børgesen, 1938a: 188–189.— Børgesen, 1938b: 209.— Durairatnam, 1962: 10–11, pl. 2.— S. Dixit, 1966: 12.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 17.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [28].— Nair et al., 1986: 738.— V. Krishnamurthy & Sundararajan, 1987b: 115–117, 119, figs. 26–36, 55.— Desikachary, V. Krishnamurthy, & M. Balakrishnan, 1990: 163–164, pl. XVI.— Nair et al., 1993: 185, 193.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Sri Lanka.
Note: This species was distributed by Harvey (1857a: no. 38) in his Ceylon exsiccata under the name Scinaia ? carnosa, without a description.