Haliseris australis Sonder, 1853: 664–665 (type locality: Lefevre Peninsula, South Australia).
Dictyopteris australis (Sonder) Askenasy, 1888: 30.—Børgesen, 1930b: 173–174.— Børgesen, 1934b: 29.— Womersley, 1949: 113–114.— Varma, 1961: 224.— Sitakara Rao & Tipnis, 1964: 17.— S. Dixit, 1966: 7.— Misra, 1966b: 148, 151, fig. 78, pl. V.— Misra, 1967: 233.— Nizamuddin & Saifullah, 1967: 171, figs. 5–8, 11, pl. III.— Womersley, 1967: 217–218.— K. Srinivasan, 1969: 34, pl. XXXIV.— H. Dave, Sitakara Rao, & Tipnis, 1970: 69.— Gopalakrishnan, 1970: 63.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 10.— Gopalakrishnan, 1971: tables I–III.— Saifullah, 1973: 141.— Islam, 1974b: 86.— Islam, 1976: 38, pl. 29: figs. 197–200; pl. 39: fig. 240.— Agadi, Bhosle, & Untawale, 1978: 248.— Agadi & Untawale, 1978: 65, table 2.— Chauhan, 1978: table 4.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 34.— B. Mehta & Parekh, 1978: 251.— Murthy, Bhattacharya, & Radia, 1978: 382.— Naqvi et al., 1979: 456.— Dhargalkar, Jagtap, & Untawale, 1980: table 2.— Maru, Parekh, & E. Lewis, 1980: table 1.— R. Parekh, Dave, & E. Lewis, 1980: table 1.— Ohno & Mairh, 1982: table 1.— Pothen et al., 1983: 51.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [20], fig. 20.— Usmanghani et al., 1984: 75.— Agadi, 1985: 38.— M. Dave & Chauhan, 1985: table 1.— Dhargalkar, 1985: 80, fig. 1.— R. Qasim & Barkati, 1985: 131, table 3.— Usmanghani & Shameel, 1986: table 1.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 102–103.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— Womersley, 1987: 222, 224.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: tables 4, 7.— Untawale, Reddy, & Ambiye, 1989: table 1.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: table 1.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 375.— Steinberg & Paul, 1990: 254.— Kamat et al., 1991: 54.— Basson, 1992: 220.— Kamat et al., 1992: table I.— Naqvi et al., 1992: 133.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 36.— Aslam et al., 1994: 21.— Shaikh & Shameel, 1995: 14–15, fig. 3.
Taxonomic synonym (fide Womersley, 1949: 113):
* Haliseris pardalis Harvey, 1855b: 535 (type locality: Fremantle, Western Australia).—Harvey, 1858b: pl. XXIX.— Kützing, 1859: 24, pl. 59: fig. II.— Harvey, 1863: x.— De Toni, 1895b: 258.— Lucas, 1909: 15.— Lucas, 1913: 53.— Lucas, 1936: 89.
Neurocarpus pardalis (Harvey) Kuntze, 1898: 417.
Dictyopteris pardalis (Harvey) V. May, 1947: 274.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia, Bangladesh, India, Laccadive Islands, Pakistan.