Fucus taxifolius Vahl, 1802: 36 (type locality: St. Croix, Virgin Islands).—Turner, 1807–1808: 120–122, pl. 54.
Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agardh, 1817: XXII.—G. Murray, 1887: 38.— Svedelius, 1906a: 112–114.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 100.— D. Dixit, 1926: 225.— Børgesen, 1932a: 58–59.— S. Dixit, 1933: 35, pl. 4.— Børgesen, 1934b: 20.— P. Anand, 1940: 4, 8, 36, pl. VI: fig. 13.— Gilbert, 1942: 12.— Purchon & Enoch, 1954: 58.— Chacko, Mahadevan, & R. Ganesan, 1955: 11.— Isaac, 1956c: 11.— Varma, 1959: 248.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 27.— Varma, 1961: 221, 224.— Nizamuddin, 1964b: 209–210, figs. 11, 11a, pl. 6.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1964: 600.— Salim, 1965: 193, 194, 195.— S. Dixit, 1966: 6.— Sigee, 1966: 69.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 352.— Tsuda & Newhouse, 1966: 95.— Isaac, 1967: 76.— W.R. Taylor, 1967: 52.— Sreekumaran et al., 1969: table 4.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1969d: 39.— Gopalakrishnan, 1970: 63.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 6.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1970a: 3, fig. 8.— Umamaheswara Rao & Sreeramulu, 1970a: 29.— Gopalakrishnan, 1971: tables I–IV.— J. Price, 1971: 162, 167, 170, fig. 11.— Subbaramaiah, 1971b: 22.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1972: 221.— Saifullah, 1973: 142.— A. Sarma & Ganapati, 1973: 146, table 1.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 44, pl. XLIV.— Islam, 1974b: 85.— A. Sarma, 1974b: 155, 156, table 1.— A. Sarma & Ganapati, 1974: 383, 387, tables I, II.— M. Dave & Parekh, 1975: 43.— Islam, 1976: 22–23, pl. 5: fig. 49; pl. 7: figs. 68, 69; pl. 11: fig. 88.— Jaasund, 1976: 23, fig. 46.— Hackett, 1977: 23.— Jaasund, 1977d: 513.— Maiti & Thomson, 1977: 159.— R. Parekh, Maru, & Dave, 1977: 360.— A. Sarma, 1977: 745.— Subbaramaiah, Nair, & V. Krishnamurthy, 1977: 74.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 33.— M. Joseph, 1978a: 17.— Maiti, Thomson, & Mahendran, 1978: 126.— Murthy, Bhattacharya, & Radia, 1978: 382.— Pichon, 1978: 149, 151, 196, 412.— Sartoni, 1978: 410, fig. 5c.— Shameel, 1978a: 277–282, figs. 1, 2.— Shitole & G. Joshi, 1979: 21.— Sreenivasa Rao, Parekh, & Parekh, 1979: 47.— Dhargalkar, Jagtap, & Untawale, 1980: table 2.— Farghaly, 1980: 90, pl. IX: fig. 2.— Lawson, 1980: 6.— Mahendran et al., 1980: table 1.— R. Qasim, 1980: table 1.— R. Qasim, 1981: tables 1, 2.— Sreenivasa Rao & Parekh, 1981: 577, 578, tables I, IV.— Sreenivasa Rao et al., 1982: 123, table 1.— Gopinathan & Panigrahy, 1983: 49.— Muralikrishnamurty, 1983: tables 1, 2.— K. Parekh et al., 1983: 23, tables 1–3.— Teo & Wee, 1983: 58–59, fig. 57.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [12], fig. 13.— K. Parekh, H. Parekh, & P. Rao, 1984a: 45–46, table 1.— K. Parekh, H. Parekh, & P. Rao, 1984b: 216, 218, 219.— Usmanghani et al., 1984: 75.— K. Parekh et al., 1985: 165–176, figs. 2, 3.— Phang, 1985: 22, color photo on p. 19.— R. Qasim & Barkati, 1985: table 2.— Sobha & Nair, 1985: 21.— P. Subba Rao et al., 1985: 32.— Nair et al., 1986: 736.— Prasada Rao & Venkata Rao, 1986: 1645.— R. Qasim, 1986: 226, tables 1, 2.— G. Rao & Umamaheswara Rao, 1986: 103.— Satyanarayana Rao & Ganapati, 1986: 577.— Usmanghani & Shameel, 1986: tables 1, 3.— Shameel, 1987a: 513.— Shameel, 1987b: 183, tables 1–3.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 294.— Umamaheswara Rao, 1987a: 20.— Banaimoon, 1988b: 237.— Bandara et al., 1988: 211.— Qari, 1988: 95.— Qari & Qasim, 1988: 451.— Chaugule, Quadri, & Goswamy, 1989: 107, figs. 5, 6.— Duraiswamy, 1989: figs. 4m, 6h, 11g, table 2.— Pant & Untawale, 1989: table 4.— Shameel, Afaq-Husain, & Shahid-Husain, 1989: 178.— Shameel & Khan, 1989: 343–346, table 1.— Untawale & Jagtap, 1989: table I.— Zahid, 1989: 99, table 1.— Coppejans & Beeckman, 1990: 122, 124, pl. 4: figs. 36–39.— Duraiswamy, 1990a: 61–63, 65, fig. 3.— Duraiswamy, 1990b: fig. 11C, table I.— Farooqi et al., 1990: 2061.— V. Krishnamurthy et al., 1990: 278, figs. 4, 7.— Nair et al., 1990: table 2.— Shameel, 1990: 430, table I.— Chatterjee, 1991: 272.— Kamat et al., 1991: 54.— Padmini Sreenivasa Rao, 1991: 37, tables 1, 2.— Phang & Wee, 1991: 57.— R. Qasim, 1991: 52 (table 3).— Thomas & Subbaramaiah, 1991a: table 2.— Vidyavathi & Sridhar, 1991: fig. 2.— Bhakuni et al., 1992: 514.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992a: 174.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992b: 706 (ecad taxifolia).— Jagtap, 1992: 57.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 121.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 24 (table 1).— Naqvi et al., 1992: 132.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 28.— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Aliya et al., 1993: 26.— Amjad & Shameel, 1993b: 115.— Jagtap, 1993: table I.— Jayasankar & Ramalingam, 1993: 42.— Qari & Qasim, 1993: 230.— Rama Rao et al., 1993: 106.— Shameel, 1993: 18.— Aliya et al., 1994: 15.— Ballesteros, 1994: 543.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Andaman Islands, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Laccadive Islands, Madagascar, Malaysia, Maldives (Addu Atoll), Mauritius, Nicobar Islands, Pakistan, Seychelles, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Yemen.
Note: Coppejans (1992: 406) and Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine (1992b: 706) treated Caulerpa mexicana Sonder ex Kützing as an ecad of C. taxifolia.