Ulva fasciata Delile, 1813–1826: 297, pl. 58: fig. 5 (type locality: Alexandria, Egypt).—Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1834: 174.— Harvey, 1857a: no. 100.— J. Agardh, 1883: 173–174.— Piccone, 1886: 22–23.— G. Murray, 1887: 41.— De Toni, 1889: 114–115.— Barton, 1893: 53.— Möbius, 1893: 136.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 11.— De Wildeman, 1900: 53.— Svedelius, 1906b: 194.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 164.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 374.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 92.— De Toni & Forti, 1923: 84.— Børgesen, 1936: 61.— P. Anand, 1940: 8, 16, fig. 3A, pl. IV: fig. 9.— Børgesen, 1940: 10.— Biswas, 1945: 527–528, pl. I: fig. 1 ("forma typica'').— Børgesen, 1946: 9.— Biswas, 1949b: 51.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 11.— Gerloff, 1957: 759.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 18, pl. I: fig. 1.— Kappanna, Sitakara Rao, & Syama Sundar, 1962: 381.— Sitakara Rao & Tipnis, 1964: 17.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1964: 599, 600.— Salim, 1965: 196, 197.— Y. Doshi & A. Rao, 1966: 24.— E. Lewis, 1966: 19.— Subbaramaiah, Kale, & V. Krishnamurthy, 1966: 11.— Subbaramaiah & Parekh, 1966: 370, table 1.— Suru, Talreja, & Vaidya, 1966: 129.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 343.— Thivy, 1966: 27, 28, 29.— Y. Doshi & A. Rao, 1967a: tables 1, 2.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1967c: 329, 330.— Langalia, Seshadri, & Datar, 1967: tables 1–3.— Seagrief, 1967: 34, pl. [11].— Subbaramaiah, Kale, & V. Krishnamurthy, 1967: 128–129, figs. 1–10.— Subbaramaiah & V. Krishnamurthy, 1967: 324.— S. Dixit, 1968: 12.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 25.— J. Parekh, Talreja, & Doshi, 1968: 700, 701.— Subbaramaiah, 1968a: 115–117, fig. 1, tables I, II.— Subbaramaiah, 1968b: 300.— Suru et al., 1968: 295.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1968: 123, 124, fig. 1, table I.— Bhalala, 1969: 24.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1969: 126, figs. 3, 9, 15, table 1.— J. Parekh, Bhalala, et al., 1969: table I.— J. Parekh, Talreja, et al., 1969: table I.— Sreekumaran et al., 1969: table 5.— Vaidya & Ahluwalia, 1969: 405.— H. Dave, Sitakara Rao, & Tipnis, 1970: 68.— Dhandhukia & Seshadri, 1970: 110.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 3.— Nizamuddin & Gessner, 1970: 2–3, pl. 4: fig. 9.— Subbaramaiah, 1970: 25–27, figs. 1–5, tables 1, 2.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970a: 3, fig. 4.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 25.— Raju, 1971: 129, 130.— M. Dave & E. Lewis, 1973: 145–146, table 1.— Saifullah, 1973: 141, 142, fig. 2.— A. Sarma & Ganapati, 1973: 146, 147, table 1.— Sreenivasa Rao, 1973: 159.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 49, pl. XLIX.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1973c: 687, 688, 691.— A. Sarma, 1974a: 147–161, tables I, II.— A. Sarma & Ganapati, 1974: 383, 384, tables I, II.— Bhanderi & Trivedi, 1975: 97, tables 1, 2.— M. Dave & Parekh, 1975: 43.— Y. Sarma & Chaudhary, 1975: 179–181, figs. 1–4b.— A. Sarma & Ganapati, 1975: 264, tables I, II.— S. Vijayaraghavan et al., 1975: table I.— Jaasund, 1976: 5, figs. 9A–C.— Rajagopal, Vijayaraghavan, & Wafar, 1976: 188, table I.— Zingde et al., 1976: table 2.— Anonymous, 1977: 59.— Jaasund, 1977d: 510.— Oza & Sreenivasa Rao, 1977: 427–431, figs. 1, 2, table 1.— R. Parekh, Maru, & Dave, 1977: 360.— Saifullah & Nizamuddin, 1977: 522, figs. 5–7, pl. I:C.— A. Sarma, 1977: 746.— Solimabi & Das, 1977: table 1.— Sreeramulu, Umamaheswara Rao, & Premila, 1977: 401–404, figs. 1–3.— Subbaramaiah et al., 1977: 59.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1977: 69–70, 72–73, fig. 3.— Agadi, Bhosle, & Untawale, 1978: 248.— Agadi & Untawale, 1978: 63, table 2.— Bukhari & Untawale, 1978: 71.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 33.— M. Dave & Parekh, 1978: 324.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1978: 54.— Durairatnam, 1979: 58.— Knutzen & Jaasund, 1979: 4.— Mshigeni & Kajumulo, 1979: 145–148, figs. 1–4.— Dhargalkar, Jagtap, & Untawale, 1980: table 2.— Lawson, 1980: 16.— Mahendran et al., 1980: table 1.— Moorjani, 1980b: 461, fig. 3.— B. Patel et al., 1980: 373.— S. Vijayaraghavan, Rajagopal, & Wafar, 1980: 61, fig. 1.— Naqvi et al., 1981: table I.— Sreenivasa Rao & Parekh, 1981: 578.— Chandrasekhara Rao et al., 1982: tables 2, 3.— Mshigeni, 1982: 143.— Nair, Sobha, & Arunachalam, 1982: 266 (table 1).— Ohno & Mairh, 1982: 4, 6, figs. 3C, 4, tables 1, 3, 4.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1982: 1–4, table 1.— Agadi, 1983: 29, 30.— Muralikrishnamurty, 1983: 85, tables 1, 2.— Shameel, 1983a: 73–77, figs. 1–3.— Shunula, 1983a: 49–52, fig. 2, table 1.— Shunula, 1983b: 57–59, figs. 1a–e.— Teo & Wee, 1983: 27, fig. 15.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [7], fig. 2.— Barratt et al., 1984: species list.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1984: table 1.— Mshigeni, 1984: table 1.— R. Parekh et al., 1984: table 1.— Sridhar et al., 1984: 90.— Agadi, 1985: 37.— Dhargalkar, 1985: 80, 81, fig. 1.— Jagtap, 1985a: 46.— Jayasree, Solimabi, & Kamat, 1985: table 1.— Mageswaran, V. Balakrishnan, & Balasubramaniam, 1985: tables 1–5.— Mshigeni, 1985: 15.— Oza, H. Joshi, et al., 1985: 217–219, figs. 1–3.— R. Qasim & Barkati, 1985: 130, 132, table 2.— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 20.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 31.— Usmanghani, Shameel, & Alam, 1985: 247.— Dhargalkar, 1986a: 33, fig. 1, table 1.— Kesava Rao, 1986: table I.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1986: 131, table I.— Nair et al., 1986: 735.— Padmakumar & Ayyakkannu, 1986: 188.— Ramavat et al., 1986: 46, tables 1–3.— G. Rao & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 103.— Satyanarayana Rao & Ganapati, 1986: 564, 575, 576.— Usmanghani & Shameel, 1986: table 1.— Usmanghani, Shameel, & Alam, 1986: 528, figs. 1, 2.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 100–101, fig. 1E.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1987a: table 2.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1987b: 3.— R. Parekh & Chauhan, 1987: table 1.— Shameel, 1987a: 512.— Shameel, 1987b: 183, tables 1–3.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 293.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1987a: 21.— Banaimoon, 1988b: 236.— Bandara et al., 1988: 212.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 16, pl. 29b.— Qari, 1988: 95.— Qari & Qasim, 1988: 451.— Seagrief, 1988: 38, fig. 5:1.— Sobha, Devi, & Nair, 1988: 33, tables 2–5.— R. Anderson & Stegenga, 1989: 302.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1989c: 38, table 1.— Mairh, Ramavat, et al., 1989: 3307.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: tables 4, 6, 7.— J. Phillips, 1989: 434–437, figs. 15–17.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1989: 118, table I.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: tables 1, 2.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1990: 237.— Chennubhotla, Mathew, & Joseph, 1990: 1.— Nair et al., 1990: table 2.— Shameel, 1990: 430, table I.— Shameel & Khan, 1990: 39, 41, table 1.— Tewari, Thampan, & H. Joshi, 1990: 33–37, figs. 1–3.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1990: 324, tables 1, 2.— Pandey et al., 1991: 283.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 56.— Sofiamma et al., 1991: 56, tables I–IV.— Banaimoon, 1992: 165, table I.— Bhakuni et al., 1992: 515.— Garg et al., 1992: 1641.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kamat et al., 1992: table I.— Maya & Nair, 1992: 26.— Naqvi et al., 1992: 131.— Padun & Musatenko, 1992: 22.— Raghukumar, Nagarkar, & Raghukumar, 1992: fig. 1, table 1.— Ramaiah & Chandramohan, 1992: 73–75.— Reddy, Srinivas, & Varghese, 1992: 113.— Reddy, Varghese, & Srinivas, 1992: 109.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 19.— Ali et al., 1993: 201.— Amjad & Shameel, 1993b: 115.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 150.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Qari & Qasim, 1993: 230.— Shameel, 1993: 18.— Ballesteros, 1994: 544.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 116.— Sindhu & Panikkar, 1995: 123, figs. 1/4, 1/5, 1/7.
Ulva lactuca Linnaeus forma fasciata (Delile) Hering in Krauss, 1846: 215 (including Indian Ocean record).—Hauck, 1888 [1886–1889]: 92.
Phycoseris fasciata (Delile) Montagne, 1856: 449.—Montagne & Millardet, 1862: 3.— G. Martens, 1868: 23, 60–61.
Misapplied names:
Phycoseris lobata.—G. Martens, 1868: 23, 60–61 (fide De Wildeman, 1897a: 11).
Ulva latissima.—Jadin, 1935: 154 (in part fide Børgesen, 1946: 9; see also Ulva lactuca).
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