Vaucheria fastigiata C. Agardh, 1824: 176 (type locality: Mariana Islands).
Chlorodesmis fastigiata (C. Agardh) Ducker, 1969: 17, fig. 1.—Isaac, 1971: 6.— Sartoni, 1975: 286.— Sartoni, 1976: 122.— Jaasund, 1977d: 514.— Knutzen & Jaasund, 1979: 4.— Farghaly, 1980: 91, 208.— Lawson, 1980: 8.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1989b: 127, pl. 3: figs. 1–4, 12.— Coppejans & Prud'homme van Reine, 1992a: 177.— Wynne, 1995: 331.
Taxonomic synonym:
Chlorodesmis comosa Harvey & Bailey, 1851: 373 (type locality: Fiji).—A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1908: 180.— A. Gepp & E. Gepp, 1909: 390.— Weber-van Bosse, 1913a: 114.— Ducker, 1967: 160–164, pls. 4, 5, 15.— Jaasund, 1976: 27, fig. 56.— Kalugina-Gutnik, Perestenko, & Titlyanova, 1992: 24 (table 1).— Titlyanova, Perestenko, & Kalugina-Gutnik, 1992: 45.— Zvyagintsev & Ivin, 1992: 11 (table 4).— Kalugina-Gutnik, 1993: 55.
Avrainvillea comosa (Harvey & Bailey) G. Murray & Boodle, 1889: 71–72.—Reinbold, 1907: 556.— Schröder, 1912: 296.— Lawson, 1980: 2.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: Aldabra Islands, Indonesia (Sumba), Kenya, Mozambique, Seychelles (including Mahé Island), Somalia, Tanzania.
Note: The synonymy was proposed by Ducker (1969: 17).