pentadactyla, Coryphaena Linnaeus [C.] 1758:261 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] In India [erroneous, is Indonesia]. Syntypes: UUZM 183 (1). Neotype designation by Fricke 1999:449 [ref. 24106] is invalid; see Fricke 2000:639 [ref. 24537]. Syntype at UUZM from Åhlander (pers. comm. 4/18/07) -- the Ankarcrona 1741 specimen was taken by Linnaeus from the Academy of Sciences and brought to Uppsala in 1741. •Synonym of the carangid Naucrates ductor (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Hureau & Tortonese 1973:377 [ref. 7198], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1990:741 [ref. 18644]). •Valid as the labrid Xyrichtys pentadactylus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Dor 1984:211 [ref. 29757], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:211 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:706 [ref. 5706], Shen & Yeh 1987:65 [ref. 6419], Winterbottom et al. 1989:57 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:341 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:56 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:196 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:341 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:195 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:448 [ref. 24106], Parenti & Randall 2000:50 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:630 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1012 [ref. 25182], Westneat 2001:3467 [ref. 26277], Nakabo 2002:1012 [ref. 26193], Fricke et al. 2009:90 [ref. 30213], Kuiter 2010:380 [ref. 35285]). •Valid as Iniistius pentadactylus (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Randall et al. 2002:93 [ref. 26622], Allen & Adrim 2003:50 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S114 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:635 [ref. 27495], Randall 2005:418 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1397 [ref. 29095], Motomura et al. 2010:168 [ref. 31256], Parenti & Randall 2011:35 [ref. 31299], Allen & Erdmann 2012:693 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2018:287 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:126 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:233 [ref. 36673], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:247 [ref. 41223], Randall & Victor 2022:220 [ref. 39916], Sorgon et al. 2023:518 [ref. 40451]). Current status: Valid as Iniistius pentadactylus (Linnaeus 1758). Labridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Comoros, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius) east to Philippines, New Ireland (Papua New Guinea) and Vanuatu, north to southern Japan and Ogasawara Islands (Japan), south to Queensland (Australia). Habitat: marine.