Ulva prolifera O.F. Müller, 1778: 7, pl. 763(1) (type locality: Denmark).
Enteromorpha compressa (Linnaeus) Nees var. prolifera (O.F. Müller) Greville, 1830: 180.—Børgesen, 1940: 8–9.— Lawson, 1980: 12.
Enteromorpha prolifera (O.F. Müller) J. Agardh, 1883: 129.—Reinbold, 1907: 554.— Biswas, 1926: 31, pl. VIII: fig. 20.— Børgesen, 1935: 9.— S. Dixit, 1937: 19.— P. Anand, 1940: 8, 9, 10, 13–14, fig. 2A.— Biswas, 1943: 112.— Levring, 1946: 215.— Biswas, 1949a: 73, pl. IX: fig. 89.— Biswas, 1949b: 36.— Pocock, 1958: 24 (with query).— Durairatnam, 1961a: 19, pl. I: fig. 8.— Thivy, 1961: 347.— T. Rao & V. Rao, 1963: table I.— Salim, 1965: 197.— S. Dixit, 1966: 3.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 3.— Sreenivasa Rao & Kale, 1970: 72.— Subbaramaiah, 1971a: 391.— H. Joshi & V. Krishnamurthy, 1972: 121, figs. 1L, 2O,Z.— S. Qasim, Bhattathiri, & Reddy, 1972: 218.— Islam, 1974a: 15, pl. 4: figs. 7–10 (subsp. prolifera).— Islam, 1974b: 84 (subsp. prolifera).— V. Krishnamurthy & Subbaramaiah, 1974: 265.— Islam, 1976: 11 (subsp. prolifera).— Hackett, 1977: 25 (subsp. prolifera).— Saifullah & Nizamuddin, 1977: 533–534, figs. 29–32, pl. V:C.— Lawson, 1980: 13.— Sreenivasa Rao et al., 1982: 123, table 1.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [8].— Seagrief, 1984: 26.— Usmanghani et al., 1984: 75.— R. Qasim & Barkati, 1985: table 2.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 31.— Usmanghani & Shameel, 1986: table 1.— Shameel, 1987a: 512.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 293.— Seagrief, 1988: 38, fig. 5:1.— Al-Hasan & W. Jones, 1989: 292, pl. 1: fig. 5.— Shameel, Afaq-Husain, & Shahid-Husain, 1989: 178.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1990: 237.— V. Krishnamurthy & Balasundaram, 1990: 8.— Basson, 1992: 219.— Maya & Nair, 1992: 26.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 18.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 150.— Hadi et al., 1993: 124–125, figs. 15–17, 61–63.
Taxonomic synonyms:
Enteromorpha compressa (Linnaeus) Nees var. trichodes Kützing, 1845: 248 (type locality: unspecified).—Montagne & Millardet, 1862: 4.— G. Martens, 1868: 23, 60–61.— Dickie, 1874b: 199.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 12.
Enteromorpha salina Kützing var. polyclados Kützing, 1845: 248 (type locality: Spiekeroog, East Frisian Islands, Germany).
Enteromorpha polyclados (Kützing) Kützing, 1856: 13.—G. Martens, 1869a: 235.— G. Martens, 1869b: 456.— G. Martens, 1871b: 465.— Theobald, 1883: 20.— Biswas, 1949b: 36.— K. Srinivasan, 1961a: 229.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 3.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [8].
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia (Sumatra), Iraq, Kuwait, Laccadive Islands, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique?, Pakistan, Réunion, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by Bliding (1963: 45–56).