Rhodophyllis volans Harvey, 1855b: 553–554 (lectotype locality: Rottnest Island, Western Australia fide Min-Thein & Womersley, 1976: 101).—Harvey, 1862: pl. CCXVI.— Harvey, 1863: xl.— J. Agardh, 1876: 363.— Sonder, 1880: 19.— De Toni, 1897: 343.— Lucas, 1909: 27.— Lucas & Perrin, 1947: 165, fig. 37.— V. May, 1965: 409.— Min-Thein & Womersley, 1976: 100, 101–105, figs. 36–38, 63A.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 410.— Womersley, 1994: 417–419, fig. 144A.
Bifida volans (Harvey) Kuntze, 1891: 886.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia.