Fucus poiteaui Lamouroux, 1805: 63–64, pl. XXXI: figs. 2, 3 (`poitei') (type locality: Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic).
Laurencia poiteaui (Lamouroux) Howe, 1918a: 518 (`poitei').—Durairatnam, 1961a: 73, pl. XVI: fig. 8.— Durairatnam, 1963: 26.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 48.— S. Dixit, 1970: 124.— Jaasund, 1970a: 63, figs. 1D, 2D.— Jaasund, 1976: 143, fig. 288.— Lawson, 1980: 54.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 124.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Réunion, Sri Lanka, Tanzania.
Note: The incorrectly formed epithet poitei, which commemorates Pierre Antoine Poiteau, was corrected by Silva, Meñez, & Moe (1987: 68).