Conferva clathrata Roth, 1806: 175–178 (type locality: Baltic Sea, Germany).
Enteromorpha clathrata (Roth) Greville, 1830: lxvi, 181.—J. Agardh, 1883: 153–154.— De Toni, 1889: 133–134.— Barton, 1893: 54.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 92.— Jadin, 1935: 154.— Børgesen, 1939b: 57.— Børgesen, 1946: 8.— Kale, 1966: 180, pl. 2.— S. Dixit, 1970: 104.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 3.— Nizamuddin & Gessner, 1970: 3.— H. Joshi & V. Krishnamurthy, 1972: 126, figs. 1C, 2C,J,R.— Egerod, 1974: 134, fig. 4.— Islam, 1974b: 84.— Velasquez & Lewmanomont, 1975: 3.— Islam, 1976: 10, pl. 3: figs. 26, 27; pl. 13: fig. 99.— Jaasund, 1976: 1, fig. 2.— Basson et al., 1977: 236, 258.— Jaasund, 1977d: 509.— Saifullah & Nizamuddin, 1977: 532–533, figs. 33–36, pl. IV:D.— Agadi, Bhosle, & Untawale, 1978: 248.— Agadi & Untawale, 1978: 63, table 2.— Kannan & K. Krishnamurthy, 1978: 1, table 1.— Basson, 1979: 47–48, pl. I: fig. 1.— Dhargalkar, Jagtap, & Untawale, 1980: table 2.— Lawson, 1980: 12.— Moorjani, 1980b: 460.— Tareen, 1980: 146.— Untawale, Agadi, & Dhargalkar, 1980: 179.— Russell, 1981: 466.— Bopaiah & Neelakantan, 1982: 32, table III.— K. Krishnamurthy & Kannan, 1982: 34.— K. Krishnamurthy et al., 1982: 61, 66, table 1.— Nair, Sobha, & Arunachalam, 1982: 266 (table 1).— Teo & Wee, 1983: 31, 33, fig. 18.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [8].— L. Chou & Wong, 1984: 23.— McCain, 1984: 98.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1984: 100 (table 1).— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 20.— Banaimoon, 1986: 126.— D. Jones, 1986: 26, pl. 2.— Nair et al., 1986: 738.— Padmakumar & Ayyakkannu, 1986: 188.— Z. Begum, Islam, & Chowdhury, 1987: 219–220, table 1.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 100–101.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 292, pl. 1: fig. 1.— Basson, Mohamed, & Arora, 1989: 28.— Coppejans & Gallin, 1989: 51.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: tables 4, 7.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: table 1.— J. Wright, 1989: 187.— Huisman et al., 1990: 91.— Huisman & Walker, 1990: 355.— Kendrick, Huisman, & Walker, 1990: 49.— Steinke & Naidoo, 1990: 229 (table 1).— Phang & Wee, 1991: 56.— Subramonia Thangam & Kathiresan, 1991: 84.— Basson, 1992: 219.— Coppejans, Beeckman, & De Wit, 1992: 63–64.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 25 (table 1).— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 18.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Zvyagintsev & Ivin, 1992: tables 2, 3, 9.— Hadi et al., 1993: 123–124, figs. 10–14, 58–60.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Wynne, 1993: 20.— Ballesteros, 1994: 540.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 116.— A. Phillips et al., 1994: 571.— Wynne, 1995: 327.
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Note: J. Agardh (1883: 153) is traditionally accredited with the combination Enteromorpha clathrata, but in fact it was first made by Greville.