Fucus desvauxii Mertens, 1819: 183–184, pl. 14 (right) (type locality: Western Australia).
Sargassum desvauxii (Mertens) C. Agardh, 1820a: 31–32.—C. Agardh, 1824: 305.— J. Agardh, 1848b: 338.— Kützing, 1849: 611.— Kützing, 1861: 8, pl. 25: fig. I.— Harvey, 1863: vi.— Sonder, 1880: 3.— J. Agardh, 1889: 105–106, pl. XXIX: figs. 16–22.— De Toni, 1895b: 82.— Lucas, 1909: 11.— Reinbold in Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 163.— Grunow, 1916 [1915–1916]: 33–34.— Levring, 1946: 218.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Australia.