Caulerpa holmesiana G. Murray, 1891: 208–210, pl. LII: figs. 1, 2 (type locality: Algoa Bay, Cape Province, South Africa).—Barton, 1893: 81.— Weber-van Bosse, 1898: 392–393.— Delf & Michell, 1921: 95.— Eyre, Broekhuysen, & Crichton, 1938: 92, 107.— Stephenson, Stephenson, & Bright, 1938: 4.— Stephenson, 1939: 533.— Stephenson, 1944: 317, 349.— Stephenson, 1947: 295.— Seagrief, 1977: 90.— Simons, 1977: 14, fig. 11.— Brown & Jarman, 1978: 1259.— Bolton, 1986: 254.— Seagrief, 1988: 37, 40, fig. 5:2.— Stegenga, 1988: 378.— R. Anderson & Stegenga, 1989: 302.— Branch et al., 1994: 310, pl. 147.3.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: South Africa.