Conferva brodiei Dillwyn, 1809 [1802–1809]: 81, pl. 107 (`brodiaei') (lectotype locality: Bantry Bay, Ireland fide Womersley, 1979: 497).
Polysiphonia brodiei (Dillwyn) Sprengel, 1827: 349 (`brodiaei').—Biswas, 1926: 34–35, pl. X: fig. 25.— Nizamuddin & Gessner, 1970: 13, pl. 24: fig. 78; pl. 25: fig. 83; pl. 27: fig. 87 (`broadiae').— Basson et al., 1977: 264.— S. Dixit, 1980: 76.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [37].— D. Jones, 1986: 35, pl. 8.— Heiba, 1989: table 1.— Basson, 1992: 227.— Al Easa, Kornprobst, & Rizk, 1995: 374.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Iran, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia.
Note: In forming the epithet brodiaei, Dillwyn latinized the name of the Scottish botanist James Brodie to Brodiaeus before adding the genitive inflection, but because Brodie is a modern name without a well-established latinized form, the genitive inflection should be added to the unmodified name in accordance with Rec. 60C.3. Hollenberg (1944: 477) regarded Scotland as the type locality, but Womersley (1979: 497) pointed out that the figures accompanying the original description were apparently based on material from Bantry Bay, Ireland.