Gelidium scoparium Montagne & Millardet, 1862: 13–14, pl. XXVII: fig. 1 (type locality: Réunion).—Kützing, 1862: 16–17, pl. 46: figs. d–g.— G. Martens, 1868: 94–95.
Gelidiopsis scoparia (Montagne & Millardet) De Toni, 1900: 410–411.—Gerloff, 1957: 767.— Isaac, 1967: 80.— Sartoni, 1975: 297.— Sartoni, 1976: 134.— Lawson, 1980: 45.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 19 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 43.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 55.
Ceratodictyon scoparium (Montagne & Millardet) R. Norris, 1987h: 245.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Kenya, Mauritius, Réunion, Seychelles, Somalia, Tanzania.
Note: The name Gelidiopsis scoparia is usually accredited to Schmitz (1895a: 149), but that author made only a taxonomic statement, not a nomenclatural transfer.