Zonaria marginata C. Agardh, 1824: 266 (type locality: "Ex coll. Forskåhleana'' [Red Sea fide J. Agardh, 1848b: 99]).
Stoechospermum marginatum (C. Agardh) Kützing, 1843b: 339.—Harvey, 1857a: no. 53.— Bornet, 1885: 17.— Piccone, 1886: 33–34.— G. Murray, 1887: 36.— Hauck, 1888 [1886–1889]: 91.— Piccone, 1889a: 23–24.— De Toni, 1895b: 251–252.— Kjellman, 1896: 295.— Schröder, 1912: 299.— Børgesen, 1932a: 67–69, figs. 8a,b.— Børgesen, 1934b: 28.— Børgesen, 1935: 35.— Børgesen, 1937a: 26.— S. Dixit, 1940a: 92.— S. Dixit, 1941: 127.— Newton, 1953: 398.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 12 (`marginale').— Gerloff, 1957: 762.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 33–34, pl. VII: fig. 7.— E. Lewis, 1962b: 209, tables 1–3 (`marginale').— S. Dixit, 1966: 8.— Misra, 1966b: 161–163, fig. 86.— Isaac, 1967: 78.— Misra, 1967: 233.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 23.— K. Srinivasan, 1969: 32, pl. XXXII.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 41.— H. Dave, Sitakara Rao, & Tipnis, 1970: 69.— S. Dixit, 1970: 113.— Gopalakrishnan, 1970: 64.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 11 (also as Spatoglossum marginatum, in error).— Gopalakrishnan, 1971: tables II–IV.— Isaac, 1971: 10–11.— Chauhan & V. Krishnamurthy, 1972: 2.— Subbaramaiah, 1974: 59.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1974a: 302.— Durairatnam & Ragunathamuthaliar, 1976: table 1.— Jaasund, 1976: 45, fig. 92.— Jaasund, 1977d: 516.— Agadi, Bhosle, & Untawale, 1978: 248.— Agadi & Untawale, 1978: 65, table 2.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 34.— M. Joseph, 1978a: 17.— B. Mehta & Parekh, 1978: 251.— Murthy, Bhattacharya, & Radia, 1978: 382.— Knutzen & Jaasund, 1979: 4.— Wevers & Mshigeni, 1979: 287–294, figs. 1–10, table I.— Dhargalkar, Jagtap, & Untawale, 1980: table 2.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1980: 52.— Lawson, 1980: 30.— Maru, Parekh, & E. Lewis, 1980: table 1.— Moorjani, 1980b: 463.— R. Parekh, Dave, & E. Lewis, 1980: table 1.— Solimabi, Fernandes, et al., 1980: 2249.— Gerwick, Fenical, & Sultanbawa, 1981: 2233.— Kalimuthu et al., 1981: 267–269, fig. 1.— Naqvi et al., 1981: table I.— De Silva et al., 1982: 944.— Ohno & Mairh, 1982: table 1.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [21], fig. 23 (also as Spatoglossum marginatum, in error).— Barratt et al., 1984: species list.— Mageswaran & Sivasubramaniam, 1984a: 175.— Mageswaran & Sivasubramaniam, 1984b: tables 1–3, 5, 6.— Usmanghani et al., 1984: 75.— Agadi, 1985: 38.— M. Dave & Chauhan, 1985: table 1.— Dhargalkar, 1985: 80, fig. 1.— Jayasree, Solimabi, & Kamat, 1985: table 1.— R. Qasim & Barkati, 1985: table 3.— Banaimoon, 1986: 129, fig. 13.— Dhargalkar, 1986a: 33, 35, fig. 1, table 1.— Nair et al., 1986: 736.— Nizamuddin & Perveen, 1986: 124–126, fig. 1.— Rengasamy, 1986: 251–253, figs. 1–7.— Usmanghani & Shameel, 1986: tables 1, 3, 4.— Bheemasankara Rao et al., 1987: 79.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 102–103.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 295.— Bandara et al., 1988: 213.— M. Begum & Khatoon, 1988: 299.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 21, pl. 41.— Wahidulla, D'Souza, & Kamat, 1988: 799.— Wahidullah et al., 1988: 270.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: tables 4, 6, 7.— Shameel, Afaq-Husain, & Shahid-Husain, 1989: 179.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: fig. 2, tables 1, 2.— Kaliaperumal, Kalimuthu, & Ramalingam, 1990: table 2.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: 271, figs. 4, 5.— Shaikh, Shameel, Hayee-Memon, et al., 1990: 1.— Kesava Rao et al., 1991: table 1.— Kesava Rao & Untawale, 1991: 100.— D. Rao et al., 1991: tables 1, 2.— Thomas & Subbaramaiah, 1991a: table 2.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 122.— Naqvi et al., 1992: 133.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 39.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 150.— Jayasankar & Ramalingam, 1993: 42.— V. Kumar, 1993a: 139, 140.— V. Kumar, 1993b: 47.— J. Phillips et al., 1993: 395–397, figs. 2–13.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 117.— Shaikh & Shameel, 1995: 25–26, fig. 11.— Venkateswarlu & Biabani, 1995: 331.— Wahidulla & De Souza, 1995: 333.
Taxonomic synonyms:
* Dictyota maculata J. Agardh, 1841: 446–447 (syntype localities: "in mari Indico''; Cape of Good Hope, South Africa).—Kützing, 1849: 557.— Trevisan, 1849b: 455.
Stoechospermum maculatum (J. Agardh) J. Agardh, 1848b: 99–100.—Kützing, 1859: 17, pl. 41: fig. I.— G. Martens, 1868: 80–81.— Dickie, 1874b: 191.— G. Murray, 1887: 36.— De Toni, 1895b: 252.— Biswas, 1945: 530, pl. III: fig. 11.— S. Dixit, 1968: 17.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 11.— M. Joseph, 1978b: 39.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [21].— Nair et al., 1986: 736.— Usmanghani & Shameel, 1986: tables 1, 3, 4.— Shameel, 1987a: 513.
Stoechospermum patens J. Agardh, 1848b: 99 (type locality: Red Sea).—G. Murray, 1887: 36.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: southeast Arabian coast, Australia, India, Kenya, Madagascar, Mauritius, Oman, Pakistan, Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Yemen.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by Papenfuss (1976: 27), who has also discussed the nomenclature of this species (Papenfuss, 1977: 278).