Fucus spermophorus Linnaeus 1767b: 719 (type locality: Sri Lanka, fide Turner, 1809: 12, 14).—Esper, 1804 [1802–1808]: 91–93, pl. CLIV.— Turner, 1809: 12, 14, pl. 76.— J. Agardh, 1851 [1851–1863]: 335.
Sphaerococcus spermophorus (Linnaeus) C. Agardh, 1822 [1822–1823]: 247.—C. Agardh, 1824: 216.— Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1834: 165.
Chondrus spermophorus (Linnaeus) Greville, 1830: lvi.—Kützing, 1849: 738.— Martens, 1868: 30, 90–91.
INDIAN OCEAN DISTRIBUTION: India, Sri Lanka.
Note: J. Agardh (l.c.) listed Fucus spermophorus as a species inquirenda under Phyllophora. No further information has been encountered.