Turbinaria decurrens Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828 [1826–1829]: 119 (type locality: in the sea between Tahiti and New Guinea).—Krauss, 1846: 212.— Kützing, 1849: 621.— Kützing, 1860: 24–25.— G. Martens, 1868: 27, 76–77.— De Toni & Levi, 1888: 134.— Barton, 1891: 217–218.— Barton, 1893: 83.— Kjellman, 1893a: 286.— Möbius, 1893: 137.— De Toni, 1895b: 126.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 160.— Barton, 1903a: 477.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 183.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 393.— Schröder, 1912: 298.— De Toni, 1920: 135.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 99.— P. Dangeard, 1941: 41.— O. Schmidt, 1957: fig. 45:9.— K. Srinivasan, 1961a: 229.— W.R. Taylor, 1964: 477–478, figs. 5–8, pl. 1: figs. 22–28.— Misra, 1966b: 185–186.— W.R. Taylor, 1966b: 92–93.— C. Shah & Vaidya, 1967: 156, 157.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1967: 126.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 42.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 15.— Nizamuddin, 1970: 136.— Jaasund, 1976: 53, fig. 104.— Kaliaperumal & Kalimuthu, 1976: 157–159, fig. 1.— Jaasund, 1977d: 517.— Kaliaperumal & Umamaheswara Rao, 1977: 225–230.— Pichon, 1978: 145, 160, 162, 176, 248, 249, 303, 422.— Knutzen & Jaasund, 1979: 4.— S. Dixit, 1980: 69.— Farghaly, 1980: 126.— Lawson, 1980: 31.— Nair & Thampy, 1980: 279.— Solimabi et al., 1981: table 1.— Gopinathan & Panigrahy, 1983: 31.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [24].— Jagtap & Untawale, 1984: tables 1, 3.— Mshigeni, 1984: table 1.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1984: 100 (table 1).— Jagtap, 1985a: 46.— Mshigeni, 1985: 17.— Silas & Kalimuthu, 1987: 56.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 22, pl. 42b.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1989: table I.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1990: 324, tables 2, 4, 6.— Kamat et al., 1991: 55.— Ali Halidi et al., 1992: 16.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 122.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 23 (table 1).— Padun & Musatenko, 1992: 22.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.— Kaliaperumal & Kalimuthu, 1993: 9, 11, fig. 14.— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 55.— Wynne, 1995: 327.
Turbinaria vulgaris J. Agardh var. decurrens (Bory de Saint-Vincent) J. Agardh, 1848b: 267.—Sonder, 1879: 80.— Reinbold, 1895a: 25.
Misapplied name (fide J. Agardh, 1848b: 267):
Fucus turbinatus.—Turner, 1807–1808: 50–52, pl. 21 (Indo-Pacific records).— Lamouroux, 1813: 37.
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