Dictyosphaeria versluysii Weber-van Bosse, 1905: 144 (`versluysi') (syntype localities: "Plusiers récifs dans l'Archipel Malaisien'').—A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 168.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 378.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 64, pl. II: fig. 6.— Egerod, 1952: 351, 354–355, figs. 1a, 2h–k.— Papenfuss & Egerod, 1957: 84.— Isaac, 1958: 20, 21.— Isaac & Chamberlain, 1958: 133–135, pl. III: fig. 2.— Pocock, 1958: 24, fig. 7c.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 348.— Isaac, 1967: 77.— J. Price, 1971: 160, 167.— Egerod, 1974: 140–141, fig. 31.— Sartoni, 1975: 284.— Velasquez & Lewmanomont, 1975: 5.— Jaasund, 1976: 15, fig. 33.— Sartoni, 1976: 119.— Jaasund, 1977d: 512.— Pichon, 1978: 413.— Chelazzi & Vannini, 1980: 582.— Farghaly, 1980: 69.— Lawson, 1980: 12.— Moorjani, 1980b: 461, 463.— Seagrief, 1980: 22, fig. on pl. 4.— Russell, 1981: 466, 467.— Solimabi et al., 1981: table 1.— Mshigeni, 1982: 142.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992a: 171.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 25 (table 1).— Sartoni, 1992: 319–321, figs. 13B, 14A,B.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Wynne, 1993: 20.— Ballesteros, 1994: 540.— Ballesteros & Afonso-Carrillo, 1995: 210.— Wynne, 1995: 332.
Taxonomic synonym:
* Dictyosphaeria setchellii Børgesen, 1940: 12–15, figs. 1, 2a, 3 (type locality: Mauritius).—Børgesen, 1948: 21.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 348.— Farghaly, 1980: 69.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 55.— Naim, 1993: 141.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Chagos Archipelago (including Egmont Atoll), Indonesia, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Réunion, Seychelles (including Mahé Island), Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Thailand.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by Valet (1966: 260).