Fucus turbinatus Linnaeus var. ornata Turner, 1807–1808: 50–53, pl. 24: figs. c, d (type locality: not specified).
Sargassum turbinatum (Linnaeus) C. Agardh var. ornatum (Turner) C. Agardh, 1821: 42.—Montagne, 1841: 271.
Turbinaria ornata (Turner) J. Agardh, 1848b: 266.—Sonder, 1854: 2.— Kützing, 1860: 24, pl. 66: figs. Ia–d.— G. Martens, 1868: 27.— Dickie, 1874b: 190.— Dickie, 1877b: 6.— Askenasy, 1888: 23.— De Toni & Levi, 1888: 134.— Hauck, 1888 [1886–1889]: 91.— Barton, 1891: 219–220, pl. 54: figs. 11, 12; pl. 55: fig. 7.— Prain, 1892: 288, 341.— De Toni, 1895b: 128.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 161.— De Wildeman, 1900: 385–386.— Barton, 1903a: 477.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1905: 339.— Svedelius, 1906b: 194.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 183–184, pl. 24: fig. 27.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 393–394, pl. 49: fig. 27.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 149.— I. Burkill, 1935: 2193.— Jadin, 1935: 159.— Levring, 1938: 23.— Børgesen, 1941: 65–66.— Stephenson, 1944: 301, 349.— V. May, 1947: 275.— Stephenson, 1947: 300.— Zaneveld, 1952: 132–133.— Purchon & Enoch, 1954: 58.— Durairatnam, 1956a: 4.— Isaac, 1956a: 182: pl. XLIII.— Zaneveld, 1956: 21.— Gerloff, 1957: 763.— Isaac, 1958: 20.— Pocock, 1958: 25.— Isaac, 1959: 182.— Kalk, 1959: 4.— Zaneveld, 1959: 103–104, fig. 9.— Nizamuddin, 1960: 34.— Chuang, 1961: 44, pl. 5: 4.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 40, pl. XXVII.— Baissac, Lubet, & Michel, 1962: 265, 266, 270, 277.— Nizamuddin, 1962b: 197.— Hodgkin & Michel, 1963: 129.— Pérès & Picard, 1963: folded table.— Pichon, 1963: 164.— W.R. Taylor, 1964: 483–485, pl. 3: figs. 1–6 (var. ornata).— Pichon, 1965: 134, 135, 136, 139, 150.— I. Burkill, 1966: 2233.— S. Lee, 1966: 263, 271.— Misra, 1966b: 186, fig. 100.— C. Shah & Vaidya, 1966: 12.— Sigee, 1966: 72.— W.R. Taylor, 1966b: 98–99.— Tsuda & Newhouse, 1966: 98.— Isaac, 1967: 79.— Johnson, 1967b: 27, fig. 3.— Picard, 1967: 13.— C. Shah & Vaidya, 1967: 155–156, pls. I, II.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1967: 126, pl. I: 5.— S. Dixit, 1968: 18.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 23, pl. 3: D.— J. Taylor, 1968: 171.— Simons, 1969: 252, fig. (s.n.).— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969c: 716.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 42.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 15.— Nizamuddin, 1970: 136.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970a: 4.— Davies, Stoddart, & Sigee, 1971: 241, 242.— Pichon, 1971: 203.— J. Price, 1971: 135, 146, 158, 159, 162, 164, 165.— Rhyne, 1971: 56.— Imbamba, 1972: 114.— Pichon, 1972a: 382.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— Umamaheswara Rao & Kalimuthu, 1972: 57–59, fig. 1.— Chuang, 1973: 158.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 30, pl. XXX.— Egerod, 1974: 152, 154, figs. 90–92.— Lind & Morrison, 1974: fig. 4.2f.— Sartoni, 1975: 291, fig. 12.— Velasquez & Lewmanomont, 1975: 13.— Durairatnam & Ragunathamuthaliar, 1976: 656, table 1.— Jaasund, 1976: 53, fig. 105.— Jackson, 1976: 18, 19, 21, 33.— Sartoni, 1976: 129, fig. 12.— Faure & Montaggioni, 1977: 666.— Jaasund, 1977d: 517.— Kaliaperumal, Chennubhotla, & Kalimuthu, 1977: 178–179, figs. 1, 2, table 1.— Simons, 1977: 27: fig. 57.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1254.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 34.— M. Joseph, 1978a: 18.— Murthy, Bhattacharya, & Radia, 1978: 382.— Pichon, 1978: 252, 422.— S. Dixit, 1980: 68.— Farghaly, 1980: 126.— Lawson, 1980: 31.— Moorjani, 1980b: 461.— Nair & Thampy, 1980: 279.— Seagrief, 1980: 24, fig. on pl. 6.— Arumugam, Sivapalan, & Theivendirarajah, 1981: 3.— Russell, 1981: 468.— Ohno & Mairh, 1982: table 1.— Panigrahy, 1982: 7, 8.— R. Parekh et al., 1982: 11, table 1.— Gopinathan & Panigrahy, 1983: 50, pl. II:A.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [24].— L. Chou & Wong, 1984: 23.— Mageswaran & Sivasubramaniam, 1984a: 175.— Mageswaran & Sivasubramaniam, 1984b: tables 1–4.— Mshigeni, 1985: 17.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Subbaramaiah, 1985: 140.— A. Subramanian & Pragatheeswaran, 1985: table 2.— Phang, 1986: 43.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 104–105, fig. 8B, pl. II:B.— Chennubhotla et al., 1987: 63.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— Silas & Kalimuthu, 1987: 56.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1987a: 22.— Bandara et al., 1988: 214.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 21, pl. 42a.— Awasthi, 1989: 78, table 2.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: table 5.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1989: table I.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1990: 324, tables 2, 4, 6.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 61.— Subramonia Thangam & Kathiresan, 1991: 84.— Ali Halidi et al., 1992: 16.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992a: 181.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 123.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 23 (table 1).— Odintsov, 1992: table 1.— Titlyanov et al., 1992: 17, 22, 24 (tables 1, 2, 4).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 44.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 150.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Kaliaperumal & Kalimuthu, 1993: 9, 11, fig. 13.— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 55.— V. Kumar, 1993a: 139, 140.— Naim, 1993: 141.— Bakus et al., 1994: 127.— Ballesteros, 1994: 540.— Branch et al., 1994: 318, pl. 151.3.— Farrell et al., 1994: 280.— Grzebyk et al., 1994: 55.
Possible taxonomic synonym (see Note to Turbinaria conoides):
Turbinaria denudata Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1828 [1826–1829]: 117 (syntype localities: Society Islands: Borabora and Tahiti; Concepción, Chile).—Möbius, 1893: 137.
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