Grateloupia lithophila Børgesen, 1938b: 215–216, pl. VII (type locality: Madras, India).—M. Balakrishnan, 1949: 205–212, figs. 1–20, pl. 1: figs. 1–8.— Govindachari & Rajagopalan, 1953: 49.— E. Lewis & Gonzalves, 1960a: 110.— E. Lewis & Gonzalves, 1960c: 1, 4, table II.— M. Balakrishnan, 1961a: 86–88.— M. Balakrishnan, 1961b: 27–33, figs. 20–29, pl. IV: fig. 6.— Varma, 1961: 225.— T. Rao & V. Rao, 1963: 116, fig. 4, table I.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1964: 600.— K. Srinivasan, 1965: 245.— S. Dixit, 1966: 14.— E. Lewis, 1967: 296.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1968: 123, 124.— K. Srinivasan, 1969: 20, figs. 1–6, pl. XX.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 44.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 20.— Nizamuddin & Gessner, 1970: 9, pl. 13: fig. 37; pl. 14: figs. 39–40; pl. 16: fig. 46.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970a: 5, figs. 26, 31.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970b: 368.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 38.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1974a: 302.— Dhargalkar, Jagtap, & Untawale, 1980: table 2.— Nair, Sobha, & Arunachalam, 1982: 267 (table 1).— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [30], fig. 30.— Agadi, 1985: 38.— Balasundaram, 1985: 180 ff.— Dhargalkar, 1985: 80, fig. 1.— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 22.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 33.— Subbaramaiah, 1985: 142.— Nair et al., 1986: 737.— G. Rao & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 103.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 106–107.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1987a: 25.— Banaimoon, 1988a: 219, fig. 7.— Sobha, Devi, & Nair, 1988: 35.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: table 4.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: table 1.— Chennubhotla, Mathew, & Joseph, 1990: 1.— Desikachary, V. Krishnamurthy, & M. Balakrishnan, 1990: 238–239, fig. 46, pls. XXXI.C, XXXIV.A.— V. Krishnamurthy & Balasundaram, 1990: fig. 5.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: fig. 6.— Rajendran et al., 1991: tables 1, 2.— D. Rao et al., 1991: tables 1, 2.— Sofiamma et al., 1991: tables I–IV.— Vidyavathi & Sridhar, 1991: fig. 2.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 123.— Maya & Nair, 1992: 32.— Premnathan et al., 1992: table I.— Nair et al., 1993: 185, 186, 193.— Suresh et al., 1993: 113.
Misapplied name (fide Børgesen, 1938b: 215):
Grateloupia prolongata.—Piccone, 1886: 54–55.— Piccone, 1889a: 34.— De Toni, 1905: 1565.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Sri Lanka, Yemen.