Codium pelliculare P. Silva, 1959: 127–130, fig. 9, pl. VII (type locality: East London, Cape Province, South Africa).—Simons, 1977: 22, fig. 42.— Bolton & Stegenga, 1987: 168.— Seagrief, 1988: 42, fig. 5:3.— R. Anderson & Stegenga, 1989: 302.— Branch et al., 1994: 312.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: South Africa.
Note: This species was first detected by Papenfuss, who gave it the manuscript name Codium depressum (in Stephenson, 1947: 284, 296).