Fucus vittatus Linnaeus, 1767b: 718 (type locality: not specified).
Suhria vittata (Linnaeus) Endlicher, 1843: 41.—Hohenacker, 1855 [1852–1862]: no. 226.— Grunow, 1867: 81.— Reichardt, 1871: 25.— Dickie, 1874b: 194.— Hemsley, 1884: 281.— Barton, 1893: 172.— Børgesen, 1943: 11–12, fig. 4.— Barratt et al., 1984: species list.— R. Anderson & Bolton, 1985: 169–178, fig. 3.— Barratt, Ormond, & Wrathall, 1986: 1-6, 1-8.— Kuwait, 1988: 23, 27.— R. Anderson, Simons, & Jarman, 1989: 288–289.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Mauritius, Oman, St. Paul Island, South Africa.
Note: Fucus caulescens S. Gmelin (1768: 173–175) was referred to Suhria vittata by J. Agardh (1851 [1851–1863]: 480). Gmelin gave the provenance as "mare indicum, mediterraneum'', the "indicum'' being based on Seba (1758: pl. CIII: fig. 5), which Gmelin cited. Seba's illustration, however, was probably based on a plant from the Cape of Good Hope on the Atlantic Ocean.