Valonia fastigiata Harvey ex J. Agardh, 1887: 101, pl. I: fig. 5 (syntype localities: Sri Lanka; Tonga).—De Toni, 1889: 379–380.— Prain, 1892: 342, 359.— Hieronymus, 1895b: 24.— Svedelius, 1906b: 193, 196.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 169.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 379.— Børgesen, 1936: 61–62.— Børgesen, 1940: 12.— Børgesen, 1946: 13.— Chuang, 1961: 42, pl. 2: 2.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 347.— S. Dixit, 1968: 14.— Isaac, 1971: 10.— Jaasund, 1976: 15, fig. 30.— Jaasund, 1977d: 512.— Sivalingam, 1977b: 206.— Sivalingam, 1978a: 329.— Farghaly, 1980: 67, pl. IV: fig. 3.— Lawson, 1980: 18.— Sivalingam, 1980b: table 1.— Payri, 1985: 640.— Sartoni, 1986: 363, 365, figs. 4D,E.— Oyieke & Ruwa, 1987: 85, 92.— Sartoni & Salghetti, 1987: 145.— Sivalingam, 1989a: 1–3, tables 1, 2.— Sivalingam, 1989b: 4–5, table 1.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 56.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 24 (table 1).— Sartoni, 1992: 321–323, fig. 14C.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Titlyanov et al., 1994: 259.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Burma (Coco Group), Cargados Carajos, Chagos Archipelago, Indonesia (Sumatra), Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Réunion, Saya de Malha Bank, Seychelles, Singapore, Somalia, Sri Lanka, Tanzania.
Note: This species was distributed by Harvey (1857a: no. 74) in his Ceylon exsiccata under the name Valonia fastigiata, without a description. Prior to being validated, this name was used by Dickie (1874b: 198) and G. Murray (1887: 40).