Caulerpa plumaris (Forsskål) C. Agardh var. brevipes J. Agardh, 1873: 15 (syntype localities: West Indies; Pacific Ocean; Sri Lanka; Red Sea).
Caulerpa sertularioides (S. Gmelin) Howe forma brevipes (J. Agardh) Svedelius, 1906a: 114–115, figs. 7, 8 (including Indian Ocean record).—Svedelius, 1906b: 195, 197.— S. Dixit, 1933: 36.— Gilbert, 1942: 13.— Børgesen, 1946: 38.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 351 (var. sertularioides forma brevipes).— W.R. Taylor, 1967: 51 (var. sertularioides forma brevipes).— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 39.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 6.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970b: 367.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— Islam, 1974b: 85.— Islam, 1976: 22, pl. 7: figs. 63–67.— Jaasund, 1977d: 513.— Lawson, 1980: 6.— Duraiswamy, 1990a: 76, figs. 8J–P.— Duraiswamy, 1990b: fig. 11I.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992b: 704, fig. 21A.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Mozambique, Réunion, Sri Lanka, Tanzania.