Choerodon Bleeker [P.] 1847:10 Masc. Labrus macrodontus Lacepède 1801. Type by monotypy. Appeared first as name only and spelled Choirodon in Bleeker 1845:513 [ref. 312]. Choirodon is a misspelling. Dates to preprint in Dec. 1847, journal published in 1849. •Valid as Choerodon Bleeker 1847 -- (Richards & Leis 1984:544 [ref. 13668], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:202 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:690 [ref. 5706], Gomon 1997:809 [ref. 23083], Parenti & Randall 2000:9 [ref. 24943], Westneat 2001:3383 [ref. 26277], Allen et al. 2006:1377 [ref. 29095], Kuiter 2010:50 [ref. 35285], Parenti & Randall 2011:32 [ref. 31299], Miyamoto et al. 2015:82 [ref. 33938], Motomura et al. 2017:182 [ref. 35490], Gomon 2017:2 [ref. 35547] in subgenus Choerodon 10, in subgenus Aspiurochilus 40, in subgenus Lienardella 55, in subgenus Lutjanilabrus 58, in subgenus Xiphocheilus 61, in subgenus Peaolopesia 64, Fricke et al. 2018:280 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:123 [ref. 36273], Parenti & Randall 2018:14 [ref. 35964], Fricke et al. 2019:225 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Choerodon Bleeker 1847. Labridae.