Fucus pavonicus Linnaeus, 1753: 1162 (type locality: "In Mari Europae australis'').
Padina pavonica (Linnaeus) Thivy in W.R. Taylor, 1960: 234–235.—Misra, 1966b: 154–155, fig. 81.— Misra, 1967: 233.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 11.— Islam, 1974b: 86.— Subbaramaiah, 1974: 59.— Islam, 1976: 40–41, pl. 45: fig. 260.— B. Mehta & Baxi, 1976: 238–239, tables 1, 2.— Subbaramaiah, Nair, & V. Krishnamurthy, 1977: 74.— M. Joseph, 1978a: 17.— Titlyanova & Butorin, 1978: 22, 26.— S. Dixit, 1980: 65.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1980: 52.— Lawson, 1980: 25.— R. Qasim, 1981: tables 1, 2.— Zahid, Begum, & Nizamuddin, 1981: 210.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [21].— Mageswaran & Sivasubramaniam, 1984a: 175.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 32.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 102–103.— Qari, 1988: 95.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1989: table I.— Untawale, Reddy, & Ambiye, 1989: table 1.— Kaliaperumal, Kalimuthu, & Ramalingam, 1990: table 2.— R. Qasim, 1991: 51 (table 2).— Kaliaperumal et al., 1992: 12.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 22 (table 1).— Padun & Musatenko, 1992: 22.— Subba Rao et al., 1992: 181.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 55.— V. Kumar, 1993a: 139, 140.— Qari & Qasim, 1993: 230.— Kerkar, 1994: table 1.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 117.
Padina pavonia Lamouroux, 1816: 304.—Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1834: 163.— J. Agardh, 1848b: 113.— Harvey, 1857a: no. 55.— Montagne & Millardet, 1862: 21.— Harvey, 1863: x–xi.— Dickie, 1877b: 6.— Sonder, 1879: 80.— Sonder, 1880: 7.— Bornet, 1885: 17.— Piccone, 1886: 35–36.— Hauck, 1887 [1886–1889]: 42–43.— G. Murray, 1887: 35.— Askenasy, 1888: 30.— De Toni & Levi, 1888: 138.— Prain, 1891: 272, 285, 287.— Prain, 1892: 288, 341, 359.— De Toni, 1895b: 243–244.— Reinbold, 1895b: 26.— Piccone, 1901: 123.— Reinbold, 1907: 560.— Schröder, 1912: 298.— Iyengar, 1927: 187.— Jadin, 1935: 160 (possibly P. tetrastromatica Hauck fide Børgesen, 1941: 50).— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 11.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 36, pl. XXVI: fig. 2.— T. Rao & V. Rao, 1963: pl. V: fig. 6, tables 1a,c, I.— Cabanis, Chabouis, & Chabouis, 1969: 306.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 41.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 21, pl. XXI.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1257.— R. Qasim, 1980: table 1.— Zahid, Hasni, & Bawani, 1983: 156, figs. 3, 4.— Mageswaran & Sivasubramaniam, 1984b: tables 1–5.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1984: 100 (table 1).— Jagtap, 1985a: 46, 49.— R. Qasim & Barkati, 1985: table 3.— Ross, 1985: 464.— R. Qasim, 1986: 226, tables 1, 3.— Shameel, 1987a: 513.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 295.— M. Begum & Khatoon, 1988: 297–298, 303.— Qari & Qasim, 1988: 451.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 38.— V. Kumar, 1993b: 47.— Tariq et al., 1993: 644, table 1.
Zonaria pavonia C. Agardh, 1820a: 125–127 (including Indian Ocean record).—C. Agardh, 1824: 263.— G. Martens, 1868: 80–81.— J. Murray, 1881: 4.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Burma (Coco Group and Diamond Island), Djibouti, India, Indonesia (Sumatra), Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Réunion, Rodriguez Island, Seychelles, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Yemen.
Note: We consider Fucus pavonius Linnaeus (1759: 1345), the intended basionym of Padina pavonia, an illegitimate substitute for F. pavonicus. Some authors, however, consider the two epithets orthographic variants and hence accredit the binomial P. pavonica to (Linnaeus) Lamouroux.