Polyzonia elegans Suhr, 1834: 739–740, pl. II: fig. 15 (type locality: Algoa Bay, Cape Province, South Africa).—Drège, 1843: 157.— Kützing, 1843b: 447.— Krauss, 1846: 212.— Sonder, 1848 [1846–1848]: 183.— Harvey, 1849 [1847–1849]: 70, pl. XXVIII.— Kützing, 1849: 881–882.— J. Agardh, 1863 [1851–1863]: 1168–1169.— Kützing, 1865: 2–3, pl. 5: figs. a–d.— Sonder, 1880: 31.— De Toni & Levi, 1888: 79.— Barton, 1893: 175.— Hauck & Richter, 1896 [1885–1896]: no. 663.— Falkenberg, 1901: 388–392, pl. 4: figs. 25–27; pl. 5: fig. 13.— De Toni, 1903: 1037–1038.— Lucas, 1909: 44.— Mazza, 1910 [1905–1918]: 5–6.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 115.— De Toni, 1924: 417.— Kylin, 1938: 24.— Stephenson, 1947: 308.— Scagel, 1953: 60–69, figs. 10–12.— Kylin, 1956: 535, figs. 380A,H, 430G.— V. May, 1965: 380.— Seagrief, 1967: 120, pl. [52].— Saenger, 1974: 26–27.— Jackson, 1976: 33.— Mshigeni, 1977a: 263–264, figs. 1–3.— Seagrief, 1977: 90.— Simons, 1977: 36, fig. 94.— Joubert & Hanekom, 1980: 263, table 1, appendices 1, 3.— Seagrief, 1980: 27, fig. on pl. 12.— Lambert & Steinke, 1986b: 211.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 177.— Seagrief, 1988: 68, fig. 5:16.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 152.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Mozambique, South Africa.