Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus, 1753: 1158 (type locality: Atlantic Ocean).—Sonder, 1846: 157.— Harvey, 1863: viii.— Sonder, 1880: 5.— J. Murray, 1881: 2.— Barton, 1893: 82, 206.— De Toni, 1895b: 206–207.— S. Dixit, 1940b: 27.— Womersley, 1967: 257.
Note: This species is known with certainty only from the North Atlantic Ocean. According to Womersley (1967: 257), the specimen (MEL 18752) from Western Australia cited by Sonder (repeated by Harvey and De Toni) is correctly identified, so that the label must be in error. S. Dixit (1940b: 27) justifiably questioned Murray's record from Pakistan.