Caulerpa corynephora Montagne, 1842a: 14 (type locality: Toud Island [Warrior Islet], Torres Strait, Australia).—Iyengar, 1927: 188.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 11.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 39.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 45, pl. XLV.— Balasundaram, 1985: 180 ff.— Nair et al., 1986: 735.— Duraiswamy, 1989: fig. 11s, table 2.— Duraiswamy, 1990b: 42–44, figs. 5A–H, fig. 10E, table III.— V. Krishnamurthy & Balasundaram, 1990: fig. 5.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: fig. 6.— Nair et al., 1990: table 2.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 121.
Caulerpa racemosa (Forsskål) J. Agardh var. corynephora (Montagne) Weber-van Bosse, 1898: 364, pl. XXXIII: figs. 10–13.—Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 107.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 351.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 6.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221 (`coryneflora').— M. Dave & Parekh, 1975: 42.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Indonesia (Rotti).