Corallina rubens Linnaeus, 1758: 806 (type locality: Europe).—Krauss, 1837: 14–15.— Kützing, 1858: 40, pl. 84: figs. IVm–p.— Hauck, 1888 [1886–1889]: 91.— Schmitz, 1895a: 140.— Schmitz, 1895b: 29.— De Toni, 1905: 1836–1837.— Reinbold, 1907: 578.— Schröder, 1912: 303.— De Toni, 1920: 134.
Jania rubens (Linnaeus) Lamouroux, 1816: 272.—Harvey, 1849 [1847–1849]: 107.— Areschoug, 1852: 557–558.— Askenasy, 1888: 54.— Bornet, 1888: 20.— Barton, 1893: 203.— Piccone, 1901: 123.— Weber-van Bosse, 1904c: 108.— Reinbold, 1908: 200.— Mazza, 1918 [1905–1918]: 100–102.— Børgesen, 1934a: 7–8.— Børgesen, 1934b: 35.— Børgesen, 1935: 52.— Jadin, 1935: 171.— Børgesen, 1938b: 214.— Børgesen, 1939b: 107.— S. Dixit, 1940a: 96.— S. Dixit, 1941: 127.— Børgesen, 1943: 26.— Stephenson, 1947: 301 (with query).— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 12.— Newton, 1955b: 143.— Gerloff, 1957: 765.— Varma, 1959: 249.— Varma, 1961: 224, 225.— Baissac, Lubet, & Michel, 1962: 262.— Hodgkin & Michel, 1963: 131.— T. Rao & V. Rao, 1963: 116, fig. 4, tables 1b,c, I.— S. Dixit, 1966: 13.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 44.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 19.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 38.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1974a: 302.— Sartoni, 1975: 297.— Sartoni, 1976: 132.— Basson et al., 1977: 72, 226, 236.— Pichon, 1978: 162, 163, 165, 228, 303, 415.— Basson, 1979: 70, pl. XI: fig. 61.— Farghaly, 1980: 161.— Lawson, 1980: 52.— Nair & Thampy, 1980: 125.— A. Sarma, Satapathy, & D. Rao, 1981: table 4.— Chandrasekhara Rao et al., 1982: tables 2, 3.— Muralikrishnamurty, 1983: tables 1, 2.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [30].— McCain, 1984: 98.— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1985: 96.— Payri, 1985: 640.— G. Rao & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 103.— Satyanarayana Rao & Ganapati, 1986: 565, 576.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 106–107.— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 35.— Phang, 1989: 86–88.— Untawale, Reddy, & Ambiye, 1989: table 1.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 58.— D. Rao et al., 1991: tables 1, 2.— Basson, 1992: 225.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 123.— Premnathan et al., 1992: table I.— V. Kumar, 1993a: 139, 140.— V. Kumar, 1993b: 47.
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