Fucus pilulifer Turner, 1807–1808: 145–146, pl. 65 (type locality: Nagasaki, Japan).
Sargassum piluliferum (Turner) C. Agardh, 1820a: 27.—G. Murray, 1887: 34.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 46–47.— Durairatnam, 1961b: 2.— Misra, 1966b: 170, 173.— S. Dixit, 1970: 114.— Islam, 1974b: 87.— Islam, 1976: 47, pl. 46: fig. 263; pl. 47: figs. 269, 270; pl. 44: figs. 258–259.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: fig. 24.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 22 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.— Menon et al., 1993: 59.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Seychelles, Sri Lanka.