Dictyotopsis propagulifera Troll, 1931: 474–502, figs. 3–18, table 1 (type locality: near Belawan, Sumatra, Indonesia).—Post, 1936: 81.— Post, 1938a: 215.— Post, 1967b: 279–291, figs. 1, 4, 5, 8, tables 1, 2.— Post, 1968a: 97, 101, 108, 110, figs. 9, 10, table II.— King, Puttock, & Booth, 1991: 3.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Indonesia (Sumatra), Malaysia, Singapore.
Note: Allender (1980: 234–236) confirmed that Dictyotopsis is correctly placed in the Phaeophyceae and assigned it tentatively to its own family.