Amphiroa foliacea Lamouroux in Quoy & Gaimard, 1824: 628, pl. 93: figs. 2, 3 (type locality: Mariana Islands).—Pilger, 1908b: 46–47, pl. 6: figs. 8–11.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913b: 141.— Weber-van Bosse, 1914: 305.— E. Ganesan, 1968: 14–20, figs. 3, 4, 8–11, 21–31.— Isaac, 1968: 4.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 23.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 19.— Pichon, 1978: 410.— Farghaly, 1980: 161 (`foliosa').— Lawson, 1980: 34.— Segonzac, 1983: table 1.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [29].— Segonzac, 1984: table 1.— Nair et al., 1986: 737.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 18 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 43.— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 55.— Kerkar, 1994: table 1.— Phang, 1994b: 126.— Wynne, 1995: 269.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Comoro Islands, India, Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Seychelles (including Mahé Island).