Conferva glomerata Linnaeus, 1753: 1167 (type locality: Europe).
Cladophora glomerata (Linnaeus) Kützing, 1843b: 266.—Biswas, 1949a: 76, pl. V: fig. 48.— T. Pillay, Vijayaraghavan, & Thakurta, 1962: 419.— Nizamuddin & Begum, 1973: 6–8, figs. 26–28.— Patnaik, 1973: 62.— Murthy, Bhattacharya, & Radia, 1978: 382.— A. Sarma & Satapathy, 1978: 242, 245, table I.— Patnaik, 1979: 58.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [10].— Adhikary & Sahu, 1992: 202.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 22.— Hadi et al., 1993: 125, figs. 5, 6, 56, 57.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Iraq, Pakistan.