Dictyota ceylanica Kützing, 1859: 11, pl. 25: fig. I (type locality: Sri Lanka).—G. Martens, 1868: 80–81.— Børgesen, 1936: 78, fig. 7.— Misra, 1966b: 139–140, fig. 72.— Misra, 1967: 233.— S. Dixit, 1968: 16.— Jaasund, 1970c: 77, figs. 1E, 2F, 3F, I.— Jaasund, 1976: 41, fig. 84.— Jaasund, 1977d: 516.— Lawson, 1980: 22.— M. Begum & Khatoon, 1988: 295.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 19, pl. 33c.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 22 (table 1).— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 37.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 150.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 117.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Kenya, Pakistan, Seychelles, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Yemen.