Fucus valentiae Turner, 1808–1809: 17–18, pl. 78 (type locality: Red Sea).
Hypnea musciformis (Wulfen) Lamouroux var. valentiae (Turner) Harvey, 1834a: 153–154.
Hypnea valentiae (Turner) Montagne, 1841 [1839–1841]: 161.—Kützing, 1849: 758.— G. Martens, 1868: 92–93.— Dickie, 1874b: 194.— Dickie, 1877b: 7.— Schmitz, 1895a: 139.— Schmitz, 1895b: 27.— De Toni, 1900: 479.— Reinbold, 1907: 570.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913b: 118.— Weber-van Bosse, 1914: 282.— Børgesen, 1934a: 17–18.— Børgesen, 1934b: 37.— Børgesen, 1935: 55.— Jadin, 1935: 165.— Børgesen, 1937a: 47–48.— Børgesen, 1938b: 221.— Børgesen, 1939b: 112.— S. Dixit, 1940a: 97–98.— S. Dixit, 1941: 127.— P. Anand, 1943b: 60.— Børgesen, 1943: 58–59.— Børgesen, 1950b: 16.— Govindachari & Rajagopalan, 1953: 49.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1954: 174.— Newton, 1955a: 101.— Newton, 1955b: 143.— Varma, 1959: 249.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 56.— Varma, 1961: 221, 224.— Varma & Krishna Rao, 1964: 208.— V. May, 1965: 394.— Salim, 1965: 193.— S. Dixit, 1966: 15.— Desikachary, 1967: pl. V: fig. 2.— Isaac, 1967: 80.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 23.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 45.— S. Dixit, 1970: 120.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 22.— Sreenivasa Rao & Kale, 1970: 79.— Saifullah, 1973: 141.— Islam, 1974b: 87.— Islam, 1976: 55.— Rama Rao & V. Krishnamurthy, 1976: 42.— Hackett, 1977: 19.— Mshigeni & Lorri, 1977b: 381–383, figs. 1–6.— Rama Rao, 1977a: 33–39, figs. 2, 3, tables 2, 3.— Rama Rao, 1977c: 97, table 5.— Chauhan, 1978: 4, table 4.— M. Joseph, 1978a: 18.— Rama Rao & V. Krishnamurthy, 1978: 257, 258, fig. 2.— Basson, 1979: 70, pl. XI: fig. 64.— Mshigeni & Mziray, 1979: 747–768, figs. 2, 4, 5, 10–15.— Rama Rao, 1979: 30, 31.— S. Dixit, 1980: 74.— Farghaly, 1980: 163.— Lawson, 1980: 51.— Umamaheswara Rao & Subba Rangaiah, 1981: 209, 211, 212, 213.— Thivy, 1982: 56.— Subba Rangaiah & Umamaheswara Rao, 1983: 473–481, figs. 1–5, tables 1, 2.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [31].— Aleem, 1984: 925.— Mshigeni, 1984: table 1.— R. Parekh et al., 1984: table 1.— Sridhar et al., 1984: 90.— Usmanghani et al., 1984: 76.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1985b: table 1.— R. Qasim & Barkati, 1985: table 2.— Rama Rao, Nair, & Subbaramaiah, 1985: 205–207, table 1.— Shunula, 1985: 67, 68, table 1.— Subba Rangaiah, 1985b: 23.— Subba Rangaiah, 1985d: 236–242, figs. 1–3.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 33.— Hasni, Zahid, & Bawani, 1986: 284–286.— D. Jones, 1986: 33–34, pl. 8.— Padmakumar & Ayyakkannu, 1986: 188, table 1.— G. Rao & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 103.— Umamaheswara Rao & Subba Rangaiah, 1986: 1199, figs. 1–6.— Usmanghani & Shameel, 1986: tables 1, 3, 4.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 108–109.— Chennubhotla et al., 1987: 63.— M. Dave et al., 1987: table 1.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1987: table 1.— Rengasamy & Prema, 1987: 1, 2, figs. 3, 4, table 1.— Rengasamy et al., 1987: 676–677, fig. 1, table 1.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 297.— Silas & Kalimuthu, 1987: 55.— Banaimoon, 1988b: 239.— Rengasamy & Ilanchelian, 1988: 21.— Rengasamy & Sukanya, 1988: 27.— Subba Rangaiah, 1988: 8–10, pls. I, II.— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 35.— Shameel, Afaq-Husain, & Shahid-Husain, 1989: 179, 180.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: table 1.— Ghisalberti & Jefferies, 1990: 100.— Hemalatha & Rengasamy, 1990: 349.— Huisman et al., 1990: 95.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 406.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 51.— V. Krishnamurthy & Balasundaram, 1990: 14, fig. 4, table I.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: 278, figs. 3, 4, 5, 7, 8.— Millar, 1990: 349.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1990: table 1.— Subbaramaiah, 1990: 338.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1990: 323, tables 1, 4, 5, 7, 8.— Yarish & Wamukoya, 1990: table 2.— Bensam et al., 1991: 104, table 1.— Hayee-Memon, Shameel, Usmanghani, Ahmad, & Ahmad, 1991a: 33.— Jayasankar & Kaliaperumal, 1991: 23.— Subramonia Thangam & Kathiresan, 1991: 84.— Thomas & Subbaramaiah, 1991a: 202, table 2.— Vidyavathi & Sridhar, 1991: fig. 2.— Afaq-Husain, Shameel, & Khan, 1992: 141, tables I–III.— S. Balakrishnan, Ravichandran, & Kaliaperumal, 1992: 65.— Basson, 1992: 225.— Coppejans, Beeckman, & De Wit, 1992: 64.— Hayee-Memon et al., 1992a: 7.— Kaliaperumal et al., 1992: 13.— Kaliaperumal, Rajagopalan, & Chennubhotla, 1992: 106.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 123.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 18 (table 1).— Naqvi et al., 1992: 135.— Rama Rao, 1992b: 5–10, figs. 3, 11–15.— Rama Rao, 1992c: 11–13.— Rama Rao, 1992d: 15–17.— Ramaiah & Chandramohan, 1992: 74, 75.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 49.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 43.— Velkanni & Rengasamy, 1992a: 57.— Velkanni & Rengasamy, 1992b: 45.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Jayasankar & Ramalingam, 1993: 42.— Kaliaperumal & Kalimuthu, 1993: 9, 11.— Bakus et al., 1994: 127.— Ballesteros, 1994: 538.— Mshigeni & D. Chapman, 1994: 258.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 118.— Wynne, 1995: 277, 294.
Possible misapplied name (fide Womersley, 1994: 445):
Hypnea hamulosa.—Sonder, 1848 [1846–1848]: 190.
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