Valonia aegagropila C. Agardh, 1823 [1822–1823]: 429–430 (lectotype locality: Venezia, Italy fide Egerod, 1952: 348 and Olsen & J. West, 1988: 106).—Montagne & Millardet, 1862: 5.— G. Martens, 1868: 66–67.— Dickie, 1877b: 7.— J. Agardh, 1887: 99–100.— De Toni, 1889: 377.— Hieronymus, 1895b: 24.— Børgesen, 1934b: 8.— Eyre, Broekhuysen, & Crichton, 1938: 102, 105.— Børgesen, 1940: 11–12.— Stephenson, 1944: 306, 350.— Børgesen, 1946: 13.— Stephenson, 1947: 297.— Børgesen, 1948: 21.— Børgesen, 1953: 5.— Isaac, 1953: 66.— Isaac, 1958: 20, 21, fig. 7c.— Isaac & Chamberlain, 1958: 137–138, fig. 11, pl. IV: fig. 2.— Pocock, 1958: 24.— Gerloff, 1960: 609–610.— S. Dixit, 1966: 3.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 347.— Isaac, 1967: 77.— Nizamuddin, 1969: 248, 250, figs. 17–18, pl. III.— Simons, 1969: 247, fig. (s.n.).— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 38.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 9.— Sreenivasa Rao & Kale, 1970: 74.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970b: 366.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1974a: 302.— Sartoni, 1975: 284.— Jaasund, 1976: 15, fig. 29.— Jackson, 1976: 32.— Sartoni, 1976: 119.— Hackett, 1977: 27.— Jaasund, 1977d: 512.— Simons, 1977: 13, fig. 9.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 34.— Chelazzi & Vannini, 1980: 582.— S. Dixit, 1980: 62.— Lawson, 1980: 18.— Moorjani, 1980b: 460.— Seagrief, 1980: 22, fig. on pl. 4.— Russell, 1981: 467.— S. Singh, Jose, & Chowdary, 1981: 65–68, figs. 2, 4, 5.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [15].— Barratt et al., 1984: species list.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 102–103.— Oyieke & Ruwa, 1987: 85, 91, 92.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 16, pl. 30.— Untawale, Reddy, & Ambiye, 1989: table 1.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 122.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 24 (table 1).— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 24.— Titlyanov et al., 1992: 17, 22 (tables 1, 2).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Farrell, Critchley, & Aken, 1993: 149.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Branch et al., 1994: 312, pl. 148.8.— Critchley et al., 1994: 262.— Phang, 1994b: 125.
Misapplied names:
Valonia utricularis.—Schröder, 1912: 296 (fide Gerloff, 1960: 610).
Valonia confervoides.—Jadin, 1935: 157 (in part fide Børgesen, 1940: 16; 1946: 13; see also Ernodesmis verticillata).
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