bimaculatus, Cheilinus Valenciennes [A.] in Cuvier & Valenciennes 1840:96 [Histoire naturelle des poissons v. 14; ref. 4882] Honolulu, Oahu Island, Hawaiian Islands. Holotype (unique): MNHN A-7470. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:14 [ref. 19171]. •Valid as Cheilinus bimaculatus Valenciennes 1840 -- (Dor 1984:197 [ref. 29757], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:213 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:689 [ref. 5706], Randall et al. 1990:301 [ref. 15987], Francis 1993:164 [ref. 25479], Fancis & Randall 1993:122 [ref. 20996], Kuiter 1993:293 [ref. 23929], Goren & Dor 1994:53 [ref. 25356], Kuiter 1997:276 [ref. 25488], Shinohara et al. 2000:180 [ref. 25987], Hutchins 2001:268 [ref. 25841], Kuiter 2010:178 [ref. 35285]). •Valid as Oxycheilinus bimaculatus (Valenciennes 1840) -- (Randall 1995:287 [ref. 22896], Allen 1997:180 [ref. 23977], Randall et al. 1997:301 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:192 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:426 [ref. 24106], Johnson 1999:744 [ref. 25471], Parenti & Randall 2000:32 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:629 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1009 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:365 [ref. 25191], Sadovy & Cornish 2000:209 [ref. 25480], Randall & Earle 2000:17 [ref. 25806], Allen 2000:114 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:39 [ref. 25847], Westneat 2001:3402 [ref. 26277], Nakabo 2002:1009 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:50 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2003:361 [ref. 27177], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S114 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:634 [ref. 27495], Randall et al. 2004:22 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:349 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:426 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:443 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1403 [ref. 29095], Randall 2007:327 [ref. 30952], Randall 2007:326 [ref. 30952], Fricke et al. 2009:88 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:170 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:703 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:136 [ref. 33932], Delrieu-Trottin et al. 2015:7 [ref. 33988], Fukui et al. 2016:[1] [ref. 35080], Fricke et al. 2018:289 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:235 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:88 [ref. 36871], Sonoyama et al. 2020:86 [ref. 37637], Gloerfelt-Tarp & Kailola 2022:241 [ref. 41223], Randall & Victor 2022:231 [ref. 39916]). Current status: Valid as Oxycheilinus bimaculatus (Valenciennes 1840). Labridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Comoros, Madagascar and Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues) east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), north to central Japan, south to Lord Howe Island (Australia) and New Caledonia, and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia). Habitat: marine.