Conferva composita Harvey, 1834a: 157 (type locality: Mauritius).
Cladophora composita (Harvey) Kützing, 1849: 415 (including Indian Ocean record).—Montagne & Millardet, 1862: 3.— De Toni, 1889: 347.— Hieronymus, 1895b: 23.— Hariot, 1902: 470.— Jadin, 1935: 155.
Aegagropila composita (Harvey) Kützing, 1854: 14, pl. 67: figs. Bb–d (including Indian Ocean record).
Boodlea composita (Harvey) Brand, 1904: 187–190 (including Indian Ocean record).—Børgesen, 1940: 21–25, fig. 6.— Børgesen, 1946: 15–16, fig. 5.— Egerod, 1952: 362, fig. 6a, pl. 32: a.— Newton, 1953: 399, 401.— Gerloff, 1957: 759–760.— Pocock, 1958: 24.— Gerloff, 1960: 612.— Baissac, Lubet, & Michel, 1962: 262.— Durairatnam, 1962: 4–5, fig. 2.— Hodgkin & Michel, 1963: 129.— Sitakara Rao & Tipnis, 1964: 17.— K. Srinivasan, 1965: 229.— S. Dixit, 1966: 4.— Sigee, 1966: 69.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 349.— Tsuda & Newhouse, 1966: 94.— Isaac, 1967: 77.— Sitakara Rao & Tipnis, 1967: 279, 280, 282, 285–286.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 23, 27.— Nizamuddin, 1969: 252, 254, figs. 24–26, pl. VI.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 38.— Chowdary, 1970: 3, 4, figs. 4A,B, 5.— H. Dave, Sitakara Rao, & Tipnis, 1970: 68.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 8.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970b: 367.— Gopalakrishnan, 1971: tables I–IV.— Rhyne, 1971: 49.— Islam, 1974b: 84.— Lind & Morrison, 1974: 130.— M. Dave & Parekh, 1975: 42.— Egerod, 1975: 50, 52, fig. 19.— Sartoni, 1975: 283.— Islam, 1976: 17, pl. 4: figs. 28–30; pl. 9: figs. 78–81.— Jaasund, 1976: 11, fig. 23.— Sartoni, 1976: 118.— Hackett, 1977: 22.— Jaasund, 1977d: 511.— R. Parekh, Maru, & Dave, 1977: 360.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 33.— Pichon, 1978: 240, 411.— Titlyanova & Butorin, 1978: 26.— S. Dixit, 1980: 62.— Farghaly, 1980: 73.— Lawson, 1980: 3.— Moorjani, 1980b: 461.— Seagrief, 1980: 22, fig. on pl. 4.— Crane, 1981: 158, fig. 18.— Russell, 1981: 466, 467.— Mshigeni & Mturi, 1982: 33 ff.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [14].— Mshigeni, 1985: 14.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 102–103.— M. Dave & Chauhan, 1987: 108.— Jagtap, 1987: table 1.— Banaimoon, 1988b: 237, fig. 2.— Chaugule, Quadri, & Goswamy, 1989: 113, figs. 54, 55.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: fig. 4.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 56.— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 25 (table 1).— Sartoni, 1992: 306–307, fig. 7C.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 25.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Wynne, 1993: 20.— Ormond & Banaimoon, 1994: 116.— Wynne, 1995: 332.
Taxonomic synonym:
Boodlea siamensis Reinbold, 1901: 191–192 (type locality: Ko Kahdat, Ko Chang Archipelago, Thailand).—Schröder, 1912: 296.— Reinbold in Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 68–70.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [16].— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 25 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, Chagos Archipelago (Egmont Atoll), Diego Garcia Atoll, India, Indonesia (Java), Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Nicobar Islands, Pakistan, Réunion, Seychelles (including Mahé Island), Somalia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, Yemen.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by Børgesen (1946: 16).