Fucus papillosus Forsskål, 1775: 190, nom. illeg. (type locality: Mokha, Yemen).
Chondria papillosa C. Agardh, 1822 [1822–1823]: 344.
Laurencia papillosa (C. Agardh) Greville, 1830: lii.—Harvey, 1834a: 152.— J. Agardh, 1852 [1851–1863]: 756–757.— Montagne & Millardet, 1862: 19.— G. Martens, 1868: 32, 100–101.— Dickie, 1874b: 193.— J. Agardh, 1876: 652.— Dickie, 1877b: 6.— Sonder, 1879: 82.— Bornet, 1885: 19.— Askenasy, 1888: 47.— Bornet, 1888: 20.— Hauck, 1888 [1886–1889]: 89.— Möbius, 1893: 138.— Schmitz, 1895a: 140.— Schmitz, 1895b: 28.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 175.— De Wildeman, 1900: 416.— Piccone, 1901: 123.— De Toni, 1903: 789–790.— Reinbold, 1907: 573.— Schröder, 1912: 301.— Weber-van Bosse, 1923: 344.— Børgesen, 1933b: 134–135.— Børgesen, 1935: 59.— Børgesen, 1937a: 49.— Børgesen, 1937b: 347.— Børgesen, 1939b: 118–119.— Børgesen, 1942a: 15.— Børgesen, 1945: 47.— Børgesen, 1952: 64.— Newton, 1953: 398.— Børgesen, 1954a: 46.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 13.— Krishna Pillai, 1955b: 22.— Newton, 1955a: 101.— Krishna Pillai, 1956: 5.— Lind, 1956: 26.— Gerloff, 1957: 770.— Krishna Pillai, 1957a: tables I–IV, fig. 19.— Krishna Pillai, 1957b: tables 1–8, figs. 6, 15.— Varma, 1959: 249.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 72, pl. XVI: figs. 1–3.— K. Srinivasan, 1961a: 239.— Thivy, 1961: 347.— Varma, 1961: 224.— Durairatnam, 1963: 21.— E. Lewis, 1963a: 137, tables I–III.— Sacco, 1965: 552.— S. Dixit, 1966: 19.— Isaac, 1967: 81.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 21, 23, 25.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 48.— Jaasund, 1970a: 60.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 26.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970a: 5, fig. 38.— J. Price, 1971: 148.— Imbamba, 1972: 114.— S. Qasim, Bhattathiri, & Reddy, 1972: 218.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— Mshigeni, 1973: 34.— E. Lewis, 1974: 38, tables I–III.— Lind & Morrison, 1974: fig. 4.1h.— Moorjani, 1974: 24.— Subbaramaiah, 1974: 59.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1974a: 302.— Sartoni, 1975: 299.— Jaasund, 1976: 139, fig. 281, pl. 10.— Sartoni, 1976: 139.— Mshigeni & Nzalalila, 1977: 443–447, figs. 1, 2A–C, table 1.— P. Subba Rao, Rama Rao, & Subbaramaiah, 1977: 82, fig. 2.— Agadi & Untawale, 1978: 67, table 2.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 35.— M. Joseph, 1978a: 18.— Titlyanova & Butorin, 1978: 23.— Knutzen & Jaasund, 1979: 3.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1980: 55.— Lawson, 1980: 53.— Mahendran et al., 1980: table 1.— Moorjani, 1980b: 460, 461.— Nair & Thampy, 1980: 278.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1981b: 11.— Sreenivasa Rao & Parekh, 1981: 577, table III.— Mshigeni, 1982: 142.— Ohno & Mairh, 1982: table 1.— Gopinathan & Panigrahy, 1983: 51.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [37], fig. 36.— R. Parekh et al., 1984: table 1.— Agadi, 1985: 39.— Dhargalkar, 1985: 80, 84, fig. 1.— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1985: 97.— Mshigeni, 1985: 10–12, 19.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Shunula, 1985: 66, 67, table 1.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 34.— Subbaramaiah, 1985: 140.— Banaimoon, 1986: 131, fig. 23.— D. Jones, 1986: 34–35, pl. 8.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 110–111, fig. 14C, pl. I:G.— M. Dave et al., 1987: table 1.— Doshi, Parekh, & Chauhan, 1987: 114.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1987: table 1.— Silas & Kalimuthu, 1987: 55.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1987a: 25.— Bandara et al., 1988: 216.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 30, pl. 64.— Tewari & H. Joshi, 1988: 395, tables VII, X, XI.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 305, pl. 10: fig. 87.— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 38.— Heiba, 1989: table 1.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: table 1.— Huisman et al., 1990: 97.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 52.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: 278, figs. 4, 5, 7.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1990: table 1.— Yarish & Wamukoya, 1990: 343.— Kamat et al., 1991: 56.— D. Rao et al., 1991: tables 1, 2.— Thomas & Subbaramaiah, 1991a: 202, table 2.— Abbas, Basson, & Gamal El-Din, 1992: 63.— Banaimoon, 1992: 165, table I.— Basson, 1992: 227.— Basson & Abbas, 1992: 60.— Coppejans, Beeckman, & De Wit, 1992: 64.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992a: 190.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 124.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 21 (table 1).— Kamat et al., 1992: table I.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 56.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 119.— Al Easa, Kornprobst, & Rizk, 1995: 374.— Wynne, 1995: 308, 312.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Andaman Islands, southeast Arabian coast, Australia, Bahrain, Djibouti, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Kuwait, Laccadive Islands, Mauritius, Nicobar Islands, Qatar, Réunion, Rodriguez Island, Seychelles (including Mahé Island), Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Yemen.
Note: As pointed out by Papenfuss (1968c: 99–100), Fucus papillosus Forsskål, the intended basionym of Laurencia papillosa, is not priorable since it is a later homonym of F. papillosus S. Gmelin (1768: 188; syntype localities: "mare album, mediterraneum''), a name of uncertain application. Chondria papillosa is treated as a nomen novum in accordance with Art. 58.3.