Dictyota dumosa Børgesen, 1935: 37–38, pl. VI (type locality: Bombay, India).—S. Dixit, 1940a: 94–95.— S. Dixit, 1941: 127.— K. Srinivasan, 1965: 242.— S. Dixit, 1966: 8.— Misra, 1966b: 143, fig. 75.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 11.— Solimabi & Naqvi, 1975: 97, table 1.— S. Vijayaraghavan et al., 1975: table I.— Rajagopal, Vijayaraghavan, & Wafar, 1976: table I.— Zingde et al., 1976: table 2.— Solimabi & Das, 1977: table 1.— Agadi & Untawale, 1978: 65, table 2.— Naqvi et al., 1979: 456.— Dhargalkar, Jagtap, & Untawale, 1980: table 2.— S. Vijayaraghavan, Rajagopal, & Wafar, 1980: 61–62, fig. 2.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [21], fig. 18.— Agadi, 1985: 38.— M. Begum & Khatoon, 1988: 296, 303.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: tables 4, 5.— Shameel, Shaikh, & Khan, 1991: 425–427, table I.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 37–38.— Shaikh & Shameel, 1995: 17–18, fig. 5.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Pakistan.