Nitophyllum fimbriatum Harvey, 1855b: 549, nom. illeg. (type locality: Garden Island, Western Australia).
Nitophyllum erosum Harvey, 1859a: pl. XCIV.—Harvey, 1863: xxxi.— J. Agardh, 1876: 460.— Sonder, 1880: 23.— J. Agardh, 1898: 50–51.— De Toni, 1900: 639.— Lucas, 1909: 35.— De Toni & Forti, 1923: 33.— Lucas, 1926: 600.— Mazza, 1926: 1862–1863.— Lucas & Perrin, 1947: 221, fig. 85.
Scutarius erosus (Harvey) Kuntze, 1891: 920.
Myriogramme erosa (Harvey) Kylin, 1924: 61.—V. May, 1965: 400.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 431.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia.
Note: Nitophyllum erosum is a substitute name for N. fimbriatum Harvey, a later homonym of N. fimbriatum Greville (in Saint-Hilaire, 1833: 447; type locality: Brazil), which according to Oliveira (1977: 120) is a taxonomic synonym of Cryptopleura ramosa (Hudson) Kylin ex Newton (1931: 332) (Ulva ramosa Hudson, 1762: 476; type locality: Lancashire, England), a species not recorded from the Indian Ocean.