Conferva elongata Hudson, 1762: 484 (type locality: England).
Polysiphonia elongata (Hudson) Sprengel, 1827: 349.—Børgesen, 1934a: 25–26.— Børgesen, 1934b: 48.— S. Dixit, 1966: 21.— Zahid, Begum, & Nizamuddin, 1981: 201–202, figs. 8–11.— Shameel, 1987a: 515.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 298.— Shameel, Afaq-Husain, & Shahid-Husain, 1989: 178, 180.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 54–55.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Pakistan.