Sargassum cervicorne Greville, 1849 [1848–1849]: 217–218, pl. IX: lower right figs. 1–6 (type locality: India).—Greville, 1850: 97–98, pl. X: lower right figs. 1–6.— J. Agardh, 1889: 87.— De Toni, 1895b: 46.— Svedelius, 1906b: 194, 195.— Børgesen, 1939b: 98.— Biswas & Sharma, 1950: 88–89.— Newton, 1955b: 142.— Durairatnam, 1956a: 4.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 44, pl. IX: figs. 16–18.— Durairatnam, 1961b: 2.— Misra, 1966b: 177–178.— S. Dixit, 1968: 18.— Durairatnam, 1968: 11.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 14.— Arumugam, Sivapalan, & Theivendirarajah, 1981: 3.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [23].— M. Begum & Khatoon, 1988: 302, 303 (`curvicorne').— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 32, fig. 7.— Basson, 1992: 222.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 41.
Sargassum binderi Sonder var. cervicorne (Greville) Grunow, 1915 [1915–1916]: 384.—K. Srinivasan, 1965: 243.— K. Srinivasan, 1967: 135, fig. 23.
Taxonomic synonyms:
* Sargassum swartzii C. Agardh var. ovatum C. Agardh, 1824: 296 (type locality: Sunda Strait, Indonesia).—Kützing, 1849: 612.
* Sargassum binderi Sonder var. angustifolium Sonder, 1871: 44 (syntype localities: various in the Indian and Pacific oceans).
Misapplied name (fide J. Agardh, 1889: 87):
Sargassum binderi.—J. Agardh, 1848b: 328 (in part).
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Bahrain, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka.
Note: Sargassum swartzii var. ovatum is included as a synonym on the authority of J. Agardh (1889: 87), S. binderi var. angustifolium on the authority of Grunow (1915 [1915–1916]: 384).