Conferva antennina Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1804a: 381 (type locality: Réunion).—Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1804b: 161, footnote.— Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1829 [1826–1829]: 227.— Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1834: 177.— Sonder, 1854: 1.
Chaetomorpha antennina (Bory de Saint-Vincent) Kützing, 1847a: 166.—Kützing, 1849: 379.— G. Martens, 1868: 58–59.— G. Murray, 1887: 42.— De Toni, 1889: 267.— De Wildeman, 1897a: 18.— De Wildeman, 1899: 10.— De Wildeman, 1900: 80–81.— Svedelius, 1906b: 195.— Børgesen, 1940: 37–39.— Børgesen, 1946: 29.— Stephenson, 1947: 295.— Zaneveld, 1950: 111.— Zaneveld, 1956: 8.— Isaac, 1957b: 77–78.— Zaneveld, 1959: 94.— Hodgkin, 1960: 41.— K. Srinivasan, 1960c: 459.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 20–21, pl. I: 11–13; pl. III: fig. 4.— Baissac, Lubet, & Michel, 1962: 262.— Hodgkin & Michel, 1963: 129.— T. Rao & V. Rao, 1963: 116, 119, 120, figs. 3, 4, pl. IV: fig. 3, tables 1a–d, I.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1964: 599, 600.— S. Dixit, 1966: 4.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 344.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1967b: 221.— Simons, 1969: 245, fig. (s.n.).— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 37.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 3.— Nizamuddin & Gessner, 1970: 4, pl. 3: fig. 7.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970a: 3, fig. 6.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970b: 366.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 25.— Nizamuddin & Begum, 1973: 14, figs. 58, 59.— A. Sarma & Ganapati, 1973: 146, 147, table 1.— Egerod, 1974: 134–135, figs. 6–8.— A. Sarma & Ganapati, 1974: 383, 387, tables I, II.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1974a: 300.— Velasquez & Lewmanomont, 1975: 2.— Jackson, 1976: 17, 20, 21, 26, 32.— Simons, 1977: 15, fig. 16.— Sivalingam, 1977b: 206.— Solimabi & Das, 1977: table 1.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 33.— Kannan & K. Krishnamurthy, 1978: 1, table 1.— R. Patel & Gajaria, 1979: 12.— Farghaly, 1980: 56.— V. Krishnamurthy, 1980: 51.— Nair & Thampy, 1980: 124.— Seagrief, 1980: 21, fig. on pl. 1.— Crane, 1981: 148, fig. 3.— Chandrasekhara Rao et al., 1982: tables 2, 3.— Sreenivasa Rao & Shelat, 1982: 93, tables 1, 2.— Gopinathan & Panigrahy, 1983: 49.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [9].— Barratt et al., 1984: species list.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1984: table 1.— Sridhar et al., 1984: 90.— Balasundaram, 1985: 180 ff.— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 21.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 32.— Kesava Rao, 1986: table I.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1986: table I.— Lambert & Steinke, 1986a: 54.— Nair et al., 1986: 735.— G. Rao & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 103.— Satyanarayana Rao & Ganapati, 1986: 564, 576.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 168.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 100–101, figs. 2A,B.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1987a: table 2.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1987b: 3.— Shameel, 1987a: 512.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 293.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1987a: 20.— Gajaria & R. Patel, 1988: 2, figs. 4–7.— Qari & Qasim, 1988: 451.— Seagrief, 1988: 38, fig. 5:1.— Kesava Rao & Indusekhar, 1989c: 38, table 1.— Shameel, Afaq-Husain, & Shahid-Husain, 1989: 178.— Chennubhotla, Mathew, & Joseph, 1990: 1.— Jayasankar, Ramalingam, & Kaliaperumal, 1990: table 1.— V. Krishnamurthy & Balasundaram, 1990: fig. 5.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: figs. 5, 6, 8.— Nair et al., 1990: table 2.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1990: 324, tables 1, 2.— M. Ganesan et al., 1991b: table 1.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 57.— Rajendran et al., 1991: tables 1, 2.— D. Rao et al., 1991: tables 1, 2.— Sofiamma et al., 1991: 56, tables I–IV.— Venkata Rao & Sri Ramana, 1991: 164, 167.— Vidyavathi & Sridhar, 1991: fig. 2.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 121.— Maya & Nair, 1992: 26.— Naqvi et al., 1992: 131.— Sartoni, 1992: 297, fig. 4C.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 21.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 149.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Jayasankar & Ramalingam, 1993: 42.— Qari & Qasim, 1993: 230.— Suresh et al., 1993: 113.— Thevanathan, Gangadharan, & Veerabadran, 1993: 2.— Branch et al., 1994: 308, pl. 146.4.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 116.— Wynne, 1995: 323.
Taxonomic synonym:
Conferva media C. Agardh, 1824: 100 (type locality: West Indies).—Harvey, 1857a: no. 98.
Chaetomorpha media (C. Agardh) Kützing, 1849: 380.—G. Murray, 1887: 42.— Børgesen, 1932a: 51–52.— Børgesen, 1934b: 18.— Børgesen, 1936: 64–65.— Eyre & Stephenson, 1938: 33.— Levring, 1938: 6–7.— P. Anand, 1940: 9, 19, figs. 4A,B.— S. Dixit, 1941: 127.— Govindachari & Rajagopalan, 1953: 49.— M. Balakrishnan, 1954: 115.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 11.— Varma, 1959: 248.— M. Balakrishnan, 1961d: 35, 37, 38, figs. 1E,G.— Randhawa & Venkataraman, 1961: 55, pl. III: fig. 2.— Salim, 1965: 197.— K. Srinivasan, 1969: 40, figs. 1–3, pl. XL.— Karekar & G. Joshi, 1973b: 216, 217, 218.— Nizamuddin & Begum, 1973: 15, fig. 60.— Saifullah, 1973: 141.— G. Joshi & Karekar, 1974: 489, 490, tables I, II.— Agadi & Untawale, 1978: 63, table 2.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1256.— Naqvi et al., 1979: 456.— Dhargalkar, Jagtap, & Untawale, 1980: table 2.— S. Vijayaraghavan, Rajagopal, & Wafar, 1980: 61, fig. 1.— Dhargalkar, Agadi, & Untawale, 1981: 76.— Naqvi et al., 1981: table I.— Nair, Sobha, & Arunachalam, 1982: 266 (table 1).— Agadi, 1983: 29.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [9], fig. 5.— Agadi, 1985: 37.— Dhargalkar, 1985: 80, 81, fig. 1.— Jagtap, 1985a: 46.— Jayasree, Solimabi, & Kamat, 1985: table 1.— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 21.— Dhargalkar, 1986a: 33, 34, fig. 1, table 1.— Nair et al., 1986: 735.— Padmakumar & Ayyakkannu, 1986: 188.— Raghukumar, 1987a: table 1, figs. 2, 3, 8, 10, 18, 19, 21, 23, 31.— Raghukumar, 1987b: 147–150.— Banaimoon, 1988b: 237, fig. 1.— Gajaria & R. Patel, 1988: 2–3, figs. 20–24, 28.— Raghukumar & Chandramohan, 1988: 311–315, figs. 1–6.— Coppejans & Gallin, 1989: 51, tables 4, 7.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: tables 4, 6.— Untawale, Reddy, & Deshmukhe, 1989: fig. 2, tables 1, 2.— Ramaiah & Chandramohan, 1992: 74, 75.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 21.
Misapplied names:
Chaetomorpha aerea.—C. Agardh, 1824: 100 (Réunion record).— Jadin, 1935: 155.
Chaetomorpha inflata.—G. Martens, 1868: 22, 58–59 (at least in part).
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Andaman Islands, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nicobar Islands, Oman, Pakistan, Réunion, Seychelles (Mahé Island), Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Yemen.
Note: The conspecificity of Chaetomorpha antennina and C. media was discussed by Børgesen (1940: 37–39). Gajaria & R. Patel (1988: 6), on the other hand, recognized both species. The misapplication of C. aerea was noted by Børgesen (1946: 30), that of C. inflata by W.R. Taylor (1966a: 344).