pulchellus, Cossyphus Poey [F.] 1860:208 [Memorias sobre la historia natural de la Isla de Cuba v. 2; ref. 3499] Cuba. Possible syntypes: MCZ 14292 (1), USNM 4752 (1), ZMB 5952 (1). Type catalog: Howell Rivero 1938:209 [ref. 22926] with MCZ 14292 as holotype. •Valid as Bodianus pulchellus (Poey 1860) -- (Matsuura in Uyeno et al. 1983:397 [ref. 14275], Robins & Ray 1986:201 [ref. 23100], Boschung 1992:154 [ref. 23239], Cervigón 1992:345 [ref. 23827], Cervigón 1993:397 [ref. 24474], Sazima & Gasparini 1999:89 [ref. 24144], Parenti & Randall 2000:6 [ref. 24943], Smith-Vaniz et al. 1999:291 [ref. 25013], Afonso et al. 1999:77 [ref. 25466], Schmitter-Soto et al. 2000:164 [ref. 27754], Gasparini & Floeter 2001:1645 [ref. 25634], Rocha & Rosa 2001:991 [ref. 25909], Westneat 2003:1706 [ref. 27105], Moura et al. in Menezes et al. 2003:92 [ref. 27192], Nelson et al. 2004:155 [ref. 27807], Gomon 2006:101 [ref. 28730], McEachran & Fechhelm 2005:508 [ref. 28815], Wirtz et al. 2007:14, 37 [ref. 30263], Kuiter 2010:30 [ref. 35285], Page et al. 2013:159 [ref. 32708], Smith-Vaniz & Jelks 2014:62 [ref. 33341], Pinheiro et al. 2015:24 [ref. 34324], Robertson et al. 2016:147 [ref. 34961], Santini et al. 2016:3 [ref. 39174], Almeida & Alves 2019:270 [ref. 37509], Reiner 2019:241 [ref. 38139], Carvalho-Filho et al. in Marceniuk et al. 2021:456 [ref. 38945], Carvalho-Filho 2023:205 [ref. 40480], Ceríaco et al. 2023:49 [ref. 40710], Hoff et al. 2023:7 [ref. 40463], Page et al. 2023:173 [ref. 40505]). Current status: Valid as Bodianus pulchellus (Poey 1860). Labridae. Distribution: Western Atlantic: North Carolina (U.S.A.) and Bermuda south to Santa Catarina (Brazil); eastern Atlantic: São Tomé and Principe. IUCN (2010): Least Concern. Habitat: marine.