Fucus pusillus Stackhouse, 1795 [1795–1801]: 16, pl. VI (type locality: Sidmouth, Devon, England).
Acrocarpus pusillus (Stackhouse) Kützing, 1849: 762.—G. Martens, 1868: 30, 92–93.— G. Martens, 1871b: 468.— Theobald, 1883: 29.
Gelidium pusillum (Stackhouse) Le Jolis, 1863: 139.—Børgesen, 1934b: 33.— Børgesen, 1935: 42.— P. Anand, 1943b: 11, fig. 4.— Børgesen, 1943: 5–6.— Levring, 1943: 178.— V. May, 1949b: 199.— Børgesen, 1952: 25.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 50, pl. XIII, figs. 1–5.— V. May, 1965: 371.— Salim, 1965: 195, 196.— S. Dixit, 1966: 12.— Isaac, 1967: 79.— Post, 1968b: 301.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 43.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 18.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970b: 368.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 36.— Rhyne, 1971: 59.— Sreenivasa Rao, 1971c: 73–75, figs. 7C,D.— Subbaramaiah, 1971b: 21.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— Islam, 1974b: 87.— Subbaramaiah, 1974: 59.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1974a: 302.— Islam, 1976: 52–53, pl. 49: figs. 281–283.— Jaasund, 1976: 71, fig. 144.— Jaasund, 1977c: 417.— Sivalingam, 1977b: 206.— Chauhan, 1978: table 4.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 35.— Mairh & Sreenivasa Rao, 1978: 169–174, figs. 1–4, tables I, II.— Chelazzi & Vannini, 1980: 582.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1980: 53.— Lawson, 1980: 46.— Sivalingam, 1980b: table 1.— Allender, 1981: 19, 20, 22.— Kaliaperumal & Umamaheswara Rao, 1981: 91, 93–95, tables I–III.— Zahid, Begum, & Nizamuddin, 1981: 217.— Nair, Sobha, & Arunachalam, 1982: 267 (table 1).— Ohno & Mairh, 1982: table 1.— Gopinathan & Panigrahy, 1983: 50.— Muralikrishnamurty, 1983: 85, tables 1, 2.— Umamaheswara Rao & Kaliaperumal, 1983: 45–52, figs. 1–5.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [28], fig. 28.— Barratt et al., 1984: species list.— McCain, 1984: 98.— Oza, 1984: 3.— Sridhar et al., 1984: 90.— Agadi, 1985: 38.— Balasundaram, 1985: 180 ff.— Mshigeni, 1985: 18.— Payri, 1985: 640.— R. Qasim & Barkati, 1985: table 2.— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 22.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 33.— Kaliaperumal & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 29–31, figs. 1, 2, table 1.— Nair et al., 1986: 736.— Sartoni, 1986: 368–369, figs. 7A,C.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 106–107.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— Kaliaperumal & Umamaheswara Rao, 1987: 201–202, fig. 1, table 1.— Oyieke & Ruwa, 1987: 82, 84, 92.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 296.— Umamaheswara Rao & Kaliaperumal, 1987: 193–198, fig. 1, table II.— Tewari & H. Joshi, 1988: 395, tables VIII, XI.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 301, pl. 7: fig. 55.— Murthy et al., 1989: 515–519, figs. 2–5, tables I, II.— Shameel, Afaq-Husain, & Shahid-Husain, 1989: 179.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: fig. 2, tables 1, 2.— Desikachary, V. Krishnamurthy, & M. Balakrishnan, 1990: 197–198, fig. 41E, pl. XXVI.A.— Huisman et al., 1990: 93.— Kaliaperumal, 1990: 87 ff., figs. 1–4.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 50.— V. Krishnamurthy & Balasundaram, 1990: 7 ff., figs. 4, 5, table I.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: figs. 3, 6.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1990: 324, tables 2, 5, 7, 8.— M. Ganesan et al., 1991a: 111, table 1.— Hatta & Prud'homme van Reine, 1991: 364–366, figs. 8a–c, f–j.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 58.— Vidyavathi & Sridhar, 1991: fig. 2.— Basson, 1992: 225.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 123.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 17 (table 1).— Maya & Nair, 1992: 32.— Naqvi et al., 1992: 134.— Raghukumar, Nagarkar, & Raghukumar, 1992: fig. 1, table 1.— Ramaiah & Chandramohan, 1992: 74, 75.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 45.— Sindhu & Panikkar, 1992: 122, 125, figs. 12–20.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 42.— Zvyagintsev & Ivin, 1992: tables 1, 4.— Huisman, 1993: 15.— Nair et al., 1993: 186, 193.— Wynne, 1993: 9–10.— Ballesteros, 1994: 539.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 118.— Womersley & Guiry, 1994: 133–134.
Misapplied name (fide Hatta & Prud'homme van Reine, 1991: table 3):
Gelidium pusillum (Stackhouse) Le Jolis var. conchicola.—Weber-van Bosse, 1921: 225 (Sikka, Flores record).
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