Halimeda macroloba Decaisne, 1841: 118 (type locality: Red Sea).—Decaisne, 1842b: 103.— Kützing, 1849: 504.— G. Martens, 1868: 66.— Sonder, 1879: 84.— Piccone, 1884a: 294.— Hauck, 1886 [1886–1889]: 168.— J. Agardh, 1887: 81–82.— G. Murray, 1887: 39.— Askenasy, 1888: 14, pl. III: figs. 8–10; pl. IV: fig. 11.— Bornet, 1888: 17.— De Toni, 1889: 520.— Hieronymus, 1895b: 24.— Barton, 1901: 24–25, pl. III: figs. 33–38.— Hariot, 1902: 472.— Reinbold, 1907: 556.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 182.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 392.— Lucas, 1912: 171.— Schröder, 1912: 296.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 122–123.— G.G. Smith, 1956: 11.— Gerloff, 1957: 760.— O. Schmidt, 1957: fig. 45:11.— Hillis, 1959: 375–377, pl. 3: fig. 3; pl. 5: figs. 19, 20; pl. 6: fig. 17; pl. 12.— Gerloff, 1960: 624, 626.— Durairatnam, 1961a: 24, pl. XXI: fig. 3.— W.R. Taylor, 1966a: 353.— Isaac, 1967: 77.— W. Isaac & F. Isaac, 1968: 21, 27, pl. 5: A.— J. Taylor, 1968: 152, 165.— S. Dixit, 1970: 110.— Gopalakrishnan, 1970: 63.— V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 7.— Imbamba, 1972: 114.— K. Srinivasan, 1973: 38, pl. XXXVIII.— Egerod, 1974: 148, figs. 65–68.— Lind & Morrison, 1974: fig. 4.1e.— Egerod, 1975: 61–62, fig. 33.— Velasquez & Lewmanomont, 1975: 7.— Jaasund, 1976: 31, fig. 63.— Jaasund, 1977d: 514.— Subbaramaiah, Nair, & V. Krishnamurthy, 1977: 74.— Pichon, 1978: 151, 191, 414.— Knutzen & Jaasund, 1979: 4.— Sartoni, 1979: 283–284, figs. 3, 7A.— Hillis-Colinvaux, 1980: 108–110, fig. 28 (top).— Lawson, 1980: 14.— Solimabi et al., 1981: table 1.— Mshigeni, 1982: 133.— Segonzac, 1983: table 1.— Untawale, Dhargalkar, & Agadi, 1983: [14].— Agastheesapillai & Thiagarajan, 1984: 46.— Segonzac, 1984: table 1.— Mshigeni, 1985: 15.— Chennubhotla, Kaliaperumal, & Kalimuthu, 1987a: 102–103.— Bandara et al., 1988: 211.— Moorjani & Simpson, 1988: 15, pl. 26 (left).— Awasthi, 1989: 78.— Jayasankar, Ramalingam, & Kaliaperumal, 1990: table 1.— Coppejans & Verellen, 1991: 16.— Kamat et al., 1991: 54.— M. Littler, D. Littler, & Titlyanov, 1991: 203, fig. 3G, table 3.— Coppejans, Beeckman, & De Wit, 1992: 64.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992a: 175.— Kaliaperumal et al., 1992: 12.— Kalimuthu, Kaliaperumal, & Ramalingam, 1992: 122.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 24 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Jayasankar & Ramalingam, 1993: 42.— Rama Rao et al., 1993: 106.— Wynne, 1995: 331.
Misapplied name (fide V. Krishnamurthy & H. Joshi, 1970: 7):
Halimeda opuntia.—Barton, 1903a: 476.— Varma, 1961: 221, 224, 225.
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