Melobesia farinosa Lamouroux, 1816: 315, pl. XII: fig. 3 (type locality: not specified [Mediterranean Sea fide Chamberlain, 1983: 343, fig. 19]).—Endlicher & Diesing, 1845a: 269.— Harvey, 1863: xxx.— Sonder, 1879: 83.— Sonder, 1880: 20.— Bornet, 1885: 19.— Heydrich, 1897a: 44.— Piccone, 1901: 123.— Foslie, 1904a: 55–56.— Reinbold, 1907: 578.— Lucas, 1909: 55.— Schröder, 1912: 302.— De Toni & Forti, 1923: 60.— Jadin, 1935: 171.— Børgesen, 1939b: 109.— Børgesen, 1943: 16.— Levring, 1946: 220.— M. Balakrishnan, 1947: 305–319, figs. 1–36, pl. I.— Newton, 1955a: 101.— Newton, 1955b: 143.— Gerloff, 1957: 765.— Baissac, Lubet, & Michel, 1962: 269.— Sacco, 1965: 551.— Adey & Lebednik, 1967: 32–34.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 44.— S. Dixit, 1970: 118.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 19.— Sartoni, 1975: 297.— Sartoni, 1976: 133.— Titlyanova & Butorin, 1978: 23.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [30].— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 55.
Fosliella farinosa (Lamouroux) Howe, 1920: 587.—V. May, 1965: 355.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 37.— Rhyne, 1971: 58.— Hackett, 1977: 16.— Basson, 1979: 70, pl. XI: fig. 60.— S. Dixit, 1980: 71.— Lawson, 1980: 43.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [30].— McCain, 1984: 98.— Payri, 1985: 640.— D. Jones, 1986: 33, pl. 9.— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 35.— Untawale, Reddy, & Ambiye, 1989: table 1.— Basson, 1992: 225.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 17 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 43.— Zvyagintsev & Ivin, 1992: 11 (table 4).
Hydrolithon farinosum (Lamouroux) Penrose & Chamberlain, 1993: 295–296, figs. 1–19 (including Indian Ocean records).—Barry & Woelkerling, 1995: 139–140.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Bahrain, Comoro Islands, Diego Garcia Atoll, Dubai, India, Indonesia (Flores and Sumba), Iran, Kenya, Kuwait, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Réunion, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania.
Note: Lawson (1980: 56) transcribed Reinbold's record from Tanzania under the name "Melobesia torta (Merteus) Reinbold'', having mixed M. farinosa with Enteromorpha torta (Mertens) Reinbold.