Fucus longifolius Turner, 1808–1809: 88–90, pl. 104: fig. a (type locality: "Indian Ocean'').
Sargassum longifolium (Turner) C. Agardh, 1820a: 17.—C. Agardh, 1824: 299.— Drège, 1843: 153, 156.— J. Agardh, 1848b: 283–284.— Barton, 1893: 83.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 100.— Stephenson, 1944: 302, 314, 349.— Stephenson, 1947: 300.— Isaac, 1953: 62.— Nizamuddin, 1960: 36.— Nizamuddin, 1962b: 198.— Simons, 1969: 248, fig. (s.n.).— Simons, 1977: 33, fig. 84.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1257, 1258, 1259.— Michanek, 1979: 382.— Seagrief, 1980: 24, fig. on pl. 6.— Niazi, 1982: 5.— Bolton, 1986: 254.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, Sreenivasa Rao, & Karmarkar, 1986a: 6–8.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, Sreenivasa Rao, & Karmarkar, 1986b: 25, 27.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, Sreenivasa Rao, & Karmarkar, 1988a: 295.— Seagrief, 1988: 37, 46, fig. 5:5.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, 1989a: 24, table 1.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, Sreenivasa Rao, & Karmarkar, 1991: 15, table 1.— Jayasankar & Ramalingam, 1993: 42.
Anthophycus longifolius (Turner) Kützing, 1849: 605.—Hohenacker, 1854 [1852–1862]: no. 169.— Kützing, 1860: 23, pl. 64.— Jensen, 1974: 45–52, figs. 22, 23, pls. 11a, 12, 13a, 14, 16.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1990: 234, 237.— Branch et al., 1994: 318, pl. 151.2.
Carpophyllum (?) longifolium (Turner) De Toni, 1895b: 123–124.
Misapplied names:
Fucus salicifolius.—Esper, 1798 [1797–1800]: 57–58, pl. XXV.
Fucus serratus.—Rudolphi, 1831: 172.— Suhr, 1834: 722.— J. Agardh, 1848b: 211–212.— Barton, 1893: 82, 206.— De Toni, 1895b: 208.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Mozambique, South Africa.
Note: The misapplication of Fucus salicifolius was noted by Turner (l.c.) while that of F. serratus was noted by Papenfuss (1940b: 9–10).