Fucodium capense Areschoug, 1854b: 339 (type locality: Table Bay, Cape Province, South Africa).
Bifurcariopsis capensis (Areschoug) Papenfuss, 1940a: 212–213, fig. 10.—Stephenson, 1944: 317, 349.— Stephenson, 1947: 299.— Jensen, 1974: 18–27, figs. 7–9, 10 (top), 12 (top), pls. 3, 4.— Simons, 1977: 48, fig. 136.— Bolton, 1986: 253.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1990: 234, 237.
Taxonomic synonym:
* Pycnophycus levigatus Kützing, 1860: 9, pl. 22: fig. II (type locality: Cape Agulhas, Cape Province, South Africa).—De Toni, 1895b: 178–179.
Bifurcaria levigata (Kützing) Barton, 1893: 82 (`levigatus').—Delf & Michell, 1921: 99.
Misapplied names:
Pycnophycus tuberculatus.—Hohenacker, 1859 [1852–1862]: no. 320.
Bifurcaria tuberculata.—Barton, 1893: 82 (`tuberculatus', Cape Agulhas record only).
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: South Africa.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by Papenfuss (1940a: 212–213). This species is based on a Hohenacker specimen distributed as Pycnophycus tuberculatus Kützing.