Catenella nipae Zanardini, 1872: 143–145, pl. VI: A (type locality: Sarawak, Malaysia).—Post, 1936: 68–72, 83.— Børgesen, 1938c: 266, fig. 1.— Post, 1938a: 214.— Post, 1938b: 743.— Post, 1939b: 34.— Zaneveld, 1956: 29.— Zaneveld, 1959: 109–110, fig. 13.— Post, 1967b: table 2.— Post, 1968a: 93, 96, 103, 106, 108, 110, figs. 6–10, table II.— Post, 1968b: 297 ff.— Islam, 1974a: 18–19, pl. 5: figs. 1–4.— Islam, 1974b: 88.— Islam, 1976: 56, pl. 52: figs. 307–308.— Jaasund, 1976: 95, fig. 194.— Jaasund, 1977c: 422.— Teo & Wee, 1983: 98–99, fig. 101.— Lambert, Steinke, & Naidoo, 1987: 356, fig. 3H.— King, Puttock, & Booth, 1991: 3.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 59.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992a: 186.— Aikanathan & Sasekumar, 1994: 132, 134.— King & Puttock, 1994b: 184, 188.
Misapplied name (fide Post, 1936: 70, 75):
Catenella opuntia.—Zeller, 1873: 192.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, India, Indonesia (Sumatra and Sumba), Malaysia, Singapore, South Africa, Tanzania.