Sargassum boveanum J. Agardh, 1848b: 333 (type locality: Red Sea).—Hauck, 1889 [1886–1889]: 189.— Reinbold, 1891b: 73.— Børgesen, 1939b: 97.— Newton, 1955b: 142.— S. Dixit, 1970: 115.— Nizamuddin & Gessner, 1970: 7, pl. 10: fig. 29.— Islam, 1974b: 87.— Basson et al., 1977: fig. 52.— Basson, 1979: 59–60, pl. VI: fig. 30.— Lawson, 1980: 26.— R. Qasim, 1980: table 1.— R. Qasim, 1981: tables 1, 2.— McCain et al., 1984: 108–110, 118.— R. Qasim & Barkati, 1985: 131, 132, table 3.— Banaimoon, 1986: 129–130, fig. 16.— D. Jones, 1986: 32, pl. 7.— R. Qasim, 1986: tables 1, 3.— Mshigeni & D. Chapman, 1987: 223.— Shameel, 1987a: 513.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 296.— Coles, 1988: 213.— Qari, 1988: 95.— Qari & Qasim, 1988: 451.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 298–299, pl. 6: fig. 46.— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 32, fig. 6.— Shameel, Afaq-Husain, & Shahid-Husain, 1989: 178, 179.— Kureishy, 1991: table 1.— R. Qasim, 1991: 51 (table 2).— Abbas, Basson, & Gamal El-Din, 1992: 63.— Basson, 1992: 222.— Basson & Abbas, 1992: 60.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 41.— Qari & Qasim, 1993: 230.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 117.— Al Easa, Kornprobst, & Rizk, 1995: 374.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Gulf of Aden, Iran, Kuwait, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, Yemen.