Botryococcus protuberans West & G.S. West in Trans. & Proc. Roy. Soc. Edinburgh 41: 507. 1905; Philipose, Chlorococcales 197. 1967; R.J. Patel & I. George in J. Indian Bot. Soc. 59(1): 46. 1980; B.N. Prasad & P.K. Misra, Freshwater alg. Fl. Andaman & Nicobar Island 26: . 1992; Suseela & S. Dwivedi in Phytotaxonomy 1: 79. 2001.
Distribution : Freshwater.; India - Andaman & Nicobar (Prasad & Misra, 1992), Gujarat (Patel & George, 1980), Orissa (Philipose, 1967), Uttar Pradesh (Suseela & Dwivedi, 2001); West Bengal (Philipose, 1967); Australia (Day & al., 1995), Cuba (Comas ,2008), New Zealand (Day & al., 1995), Romania (Caraus, 2002), United Kingdom (John & Tsarenko, 2002).
