Bodianus Bloch [M. E.] 1790:33 Masc. Bodianus bodianus Bloch 1790. Type by absolute tautonymy. Type as given by Fowler (MS); see also Smith 1971:92 [ref. 14102]. Misspelled Bodian by Latreille 1804:83. •Valid as Bodianus Bloch 1790 -- (Gomon 1979 [ref. 5480], Gomon & Randall 1978 [ref. 5481], Lobel 1981 [ref. 5536], Richards & Leis 1984:544 [ref. 13668], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:202 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:686 [ref. 5706], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:921 [ref. 13676], Gomon et al. 1994:679 [ref. 22532], Gomon 1997:804 [ref. 23083], Parenti & Randall 2000:4 [ref. 24943], Gomon 2001:407 [ref. 25905], Westneat 2001:3383 [ref. 26277], Westneat 2003:1703 [ref. 27105], Gomon 2006:5 [ref. 28730], Gomon 2006:94 [ref. 28730], Allen et al. 2006:1373 [ref. 29095], Russell & Gomon 2008:641 [ref. 30655], Kuiter 2010:20 [ref. 35285], Parenti & Randall 2011:30 [ref. 31299], Bogorodsky et al. 2011:53 [ref. 31559], Gomon et al. 2015:1369 [ref. 34207], Gomon & Walsh 2016:12 [ref. 34844], Santini et al. 2016:3 [ref. 39174], Motomura et al. 2017:181 [ref. 35490], Fricke et al. 2018:276 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:122 [ref. 36273], Parenti & Randall 2018:12 [ref. 35964], Brown et al. 2019:174 [ref. 36444], Fricke et al. 2019:223 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Bodianus Bloch 1790. Labridae.