Lithophyllum samoënse Foslie, 1906b: 20 (lectotype locality: Satana, Savai'i Island, Western Samoa fide Adey & Lebednik, 1967: 17).—Segonzac, 1983: table 1.— Segonzac, 1984: 101–102, pl. 2: fig. 7, table 1.— V. Krishnamurthy & Jayagopal, 1985b: 82–85, figs. 18–22 [miscited 14–18].— Woelkerling, 1993: 182.
Hydrolithon samoënse (Foslie) Keats & Chamberlain, 1994a: 15–19, figs. 31–54.—Chamberlain & Keats, 1994: 113, fig. 2.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Djibouti, India, Réunion, South Africa, Sri Lanka.