Fucus tenellus Esper, 1800 [1797–1800]: 197, pl. CIX (type locality: Trieste, Italy fide Wulfen, 1803: 62).
Stilophora tenella (Esper) P. Silva.
Taxonomic synonym:
Ceramium tuberculosum Roth, 1800b: 162–164 (type locality: probably Trieste, Italy fide Turner, 1811–1819: 92).
Stilophora rhizodes J. Agardh, 1841: 6, nom. illeg.—Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 296.— Basson, 1992: 221.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Kuwait.
Note: The complicated nomenclatural history of this species is discussed in the appended Taxonomic and Nomenclatural Notes.