↑Fons nominis: "Hab[itat] Oceanum Indicum. . . . [Inhabits] Indian Ocean," Edward Belcher, The zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843–1846: Crustacea, p. 23 (de Halimo aurito (Majidarum).
↑Douglas Harper, De nomine apud situm etymonline.com ("Online Etymology Dictionary"), accessum 18 Ianuarii 2011.
↑"India occupies the central position in the Indian-Ocean region[;] that is why the Ocean was named after India." Anand Mathur, Liber apud googleIndo-American relations : foreign policy orientations and perspectives of P. V. Narasimha Rao and Bill Clinton, apud situm books.google.co.in, p. 138.
↑Ferenc Albert Váli, De nomine apud situm books.google.co.in (Politics of the Indian Ocean Region: The Balances of Power, p. 25.
↑Hussain, De nomine apud situm books.google.co.in (India and the Geo-Politics of the Indian Ocean, pp. 16-33).
↑Plinius dicit, 6.13: "[Oceanus] tribus hic partibus caeli adluens Asiam Scythicus a septentrione, ab oriente Eous, a meridie Indicus vocatur varieque per sinus et accolarum conplura nomina dividitur."