Fucus muscoides Linnaeus, 1753: 1161 (type locality: Ascension Island).
Acanthophora muscoides (Linnaeus) Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828 [1826–1829]: 156.—Montagne & Millardet, 1862: 19.— G. Martens, 1868: 100–101.— Børgesen, 1937b: 348.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 12.— Isaac, 1958: 21.— Isaac & Chamberlain, 1958: 151–153, figs. 21–23.— Pocock, 1958: 27.— Sitakara Rao & Tipnis, 1964: 17.— S. Dixit, 1966: 20.— Isaac, 1967: 80.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 48.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 25.— Gopalakrishnan, 1971: tables II–IV.— Jaasund, 1976: 137, fig. 278.— Jaasund, 1977b: 412.— Pichon, 1978: 410.— Lawson, 1980: 32.— Teo & Wee, 1983: 110.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [37].— Aleem, 1984: 920.— Mshigeni, 1984: table 1.— Balasundaram, 1985: 180 ff.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 108–109.— M. Dave et al., 1987: table 1.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— Banaimoon, 1988b: 240, fig. 12.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 304, pl. 9: fig. 81.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1989: table I.— Untawale, Reddy, & Ambiye, 1989: table 1.— V. Krishnamurthy & Balasundaram, 1990: fig. 5.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 59.— Basson, 1992: 227.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 124.— Jayasankar & Ramalingam, 1993: 42.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 119.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Kenya, Kuwait, Laccadive Islands, Madagascar, Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles, Singapore, Tanzania, Yemen.