Conferva delicata Clemente y Rubio, 1807: 322 (lectotype locality: Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Cádiz, Spain fide Cremades & Pérez-Cirera, 1990b: 492).
Platysiphonia delicata (Clemente y Rubio) Cremades in Cremades & Pérez-Cirera, 1990b: 492.
Taxonomic synonym:
Hutchinsia miniata C. Agardh, 1828: 94 (type locality: Cádiz, Spain).
Sarcomenia miniata (C. Agardh) J. Agardh, 1863 [1851–1863]: 1260–1261.—Barton, 1896: 198.— Weber-van Bosse, 1896a: 281–285, pl. 359.— De Toni, 1900: 735–736.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 112.— De Toni, 1924: 359.
Platysiphonia miniata (C. Agardh) Børgesen, 1931: 20–22, figs. 1–5 (including Indian Ocean record).—Børgesen, 1934b: 45.— Stephenson, Stephenson, & Bright, 1938: 18.— Stephenson, 1944: 313.— Stephenson, 1947: 307.— P. Silva & Cleary, 1954: 251, 258, 259, fig. 27b.— Pocock, 1958: 27.— S. Dixit, 1966: 19.— Lawson, 1969: 335.— Subbaramaiah, 1971b: 22.— Jaasund, 1976: 117, figs. 239A,B.— Jaasund, 1977b: 408.— Lawson, 1980: 58.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [36].— Barratt et al., 1984: species list.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 177.— Oyieke & Ruwa, 1987: 82, 84, 92.— Kendrick, Walker, & McComb, 1988: table 1.— Seagrief, 1988: 64, fig. 5:14.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1990: 234, 237.— Huisman et al., 1990: 96.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 51.— V. Krishnamurthy & Varadarajan, 1990a: 109–113, figs. 25–41.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 151.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, India, Kenya, Mozambique, Oman, South Africa, Tanzania.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by Cremades & Pérez-Cirera (1990b: 492).