Laurencia ceylanica J. Agardh, 1876: 660–661 (type locality: Sri Lanka).—G. Murray, 1887: 30.— De Toni, 1903: 805–806.— Svedelius, 1906b: 191, 192, 199, 212, 217, figs. 2, 8.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913b: 123.— Weber-van Bosse, 1914: 287.— Weber-van Bosse, 1929: 256, fig. 1.— Yamada, 1931b: 244–245, pl. 30a.— Børgesen, 1936: 93–94.— Børgesen, 1937b: 347.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 13.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 74, pl. XVII: figs. 6, 7.— Durairatnam, 1963: 27.— S. Dixit, 1966: 20.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 48.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 26.— Isaac, 1971: 21.— Subbaramaiah, 1974: 59.— Durairatnam & Ragunathamuthaliar, 1976: table 1.— Lawson, 1980: 52.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [37].— Sofiamma et al., 1991: 56, tables I–IV.— Kaliaperumal et al., 1992: 13.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Amirante Islands, India, Indonesia (Java), Kenya, Seychelles (Coetivy Reef), Sri Lanka.