Mastophora melobesioides Foslie, 1903a: 24–25 (type locality: South Nilandu Island, Maldives).—Foslie, 1904a: 73–77, figs. 30–31.— De Toni, 1905: 1777.— Foslie, 1929: 48, pl. LXXIII: figs. 1, 3, 4.— Adey & Lebednik, 1967: 15.— Woelkerling, 1993: 148.
Lithoporella melobesioides (Foslie) Foslie, 1909: 59.—De Toni, 1924: 694.— Vasseur, 1965: 31, 32, 52, 54, 68.— Adey & Lebednik, 1967: 15.— Adey, 1970: 15.— Pichon, 1974: 304.— Hackett, 1977: 20.— Turner & Woelkerling, 1982a: 202–206, 208–210, 213–216, figs. 1, 2, 9, 10, 12, 13, 16–25, 28–30, 36, tables 1, 2.— Turner & Woelkerling, 1982b: 219, 221, 223–225, 227–234, figs. 2, 4, 6–11, 15–17, 20–22, 25–27, tables 1–3.— Segonzac, 1983: table 1.— Segonzac, 1984: 99–100, table 1.— Payri, 1985: 640.
Misapplied name:
Epilithon melobesioides.—De Toni, 1924: 601–602.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Comoro Islands, Indonesia (Semau and Timor), Madagascar, Maldives, Réunion, Sri Lanka.
Note: In recording Epilithon melobesioides (Foslie) Foslie (1909: 55) from the Maldives, De Toni (l.c.) confused the basionym of that name, Lithothamnion melobesioides Foslie (1904b: 4), a superfluous name for L. monostromaticum Foslie (1903c: 3; type locality: New Zealand), with Mastophora melobesioides Foslie, the basionym of Lithoporella melobesioides.