Callithamnion elegans Schousboe ex C. Agardh, 1828: 162–163 (type locality: Tangier, Morocco).
Gymnothamnion elegans (Schousboe ex C. Agardh) J. Agardh, 1892: 178 (`rlegans').—Papenfuss, 1943a: 89–90.— M. Balakrishnan, 1958a: 138–143, figs. 1–14.— C.S.P. Rao, 1969: 269–270.— C.S.P. Rao, 1970a: 52–55, figs. 1–8.— C.S.P. Rao, 1970b: 23–24, figs. 1–11.— B. Subramanian, 1985a: 72, 81.— Stegenga, 1986: 84–88, pls. 28, 29.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 174.— Seagrief, 1988: 64, fig. 5:14.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1990: 237.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 20 (table 1).— Stegenga & Bolton, 1992: fig. 3, table I.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 151.
Taxonomic synonym:
Gymnothamnion bipinnatum Collins & Hervey, 1917: 139–141, pl. IV: fig. 26 (type locality: Gravelly Bay, Bermuda).—Zvyagintsev & Ivin, 1992: 11 (table 4).
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Seychelles, South Africa.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by Howe (1920: 580).