Caulerpa veravalensis Thivy & Chauhan, 1963: 97–100, figs. 1–8, pl. I (type locality: Jaleshwar, Veraval, Gujarat, India).—K. Srinivasan, 1965: 229.— Thivy, 1966: 27.— S. Dixit, 1968: 15.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 6.— M. Dave & Parekh, 1975: 43.— R. Parekh, Maru, & Dave, 1977: 360.— Chauhan & Mairh, 1978: 33.— Shameel, 1978a: 277–282, figs. 1–4, tables 1, 2.— Ohno & Mairh, 1982: tables 1, 3.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [12].— Shameel, 1987a: 513.— Shameel & Afaq Hussain, 1987: 294.— Shameel & Khan, 1991: 501, table I.— Shameel & Shaukat, 1992: 1–7, fig. 3, table I.— Shameel & J. Tanaka, 1992: 28.— Amjad & Shameel, 1993b: 115.— Shameel, 1993: 18.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Pakistan.
Note: S. Dixit (1968: 15) and V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi (1970: 6) considered this species to be a form of Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agardh (q.v.), but Shameel (1978a: 280) listed morphological characters that separate the two species, which he found growing side by side under similar ecological conditions on the Karachi coast in Pakistan. Shameel & Shaukat (1992) made a statistical analysis of morphological and ecological characters of three similar species—C. manorensis Nizamuddin [p. 825], C. qureshii Nizamuddin [p. 831], and C. veravalensis—and found that the first two species are more similar to each other than they are to C. veravalensis.