1858
Graptopora socialis — Salter, pp. 65
1866
Dictyonema sociale — Salter, pp. 33, fig. 4:1
1881
Dictyonema sociale — Salter, pp. 535, fig. IV 1,1a-c
1882
Dictyograptus flabelliformis var. conferta — Brögger, pp. 35-36
1891
?Dictyonema flabelliforme var. confertum — Matthew, pp. 36
1904
Dictyonema flabelliforme var. confertum — Ruedemann, pp. 605, fig. 1:22
1909
Dictyograptus flabelliformis var. conferta — Westergard, pp. 59, fig. 3:7
1912
Dictyonema flabelliforme (Eichwald) var. conferta — Hahn, pp. 138, fig. 20
1927
Dictyonema flabelliforme (Eichwald) var. sociale — Bulman, pp. 26, fig. 2:1-2
1947
Dictyonema flabelliforme (Eichwald) var. sociale — Ruedemann, pp. 162, fig. 2:6-9
1949
Dictyograptus flabelliforme var. sociale — Lecomte, pp. 4
1953
Dictyonema sociale (Salter) — Obut, pp. 43, fig. 7:2-2a
1954
Dictyonema flabelliforme sociale (Salter) — Bulman, pp. 27, fig. 1;1,2; text fig.10a
1998
Rhabdinopora flabelliformis socialis — Cooper et al., pp. 7
1999
Rhabdinopora flabelliformis socialis (Salter, 1858) — Cooper, pp. 2
2009
Rh. f. socialis — Suyarkova & Koren, pp. 6