mixtus, Labrus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:287 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] [Liburni] Liburnia = northern Dalmatia, Croatia, northeastern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Neotype: UUZM 193. Spelled mixtys by Bloch & Schneider 1801:267 [ref. 471], corrected in Corrigenda, p. 575. See Opinion 1954 in June 2000 in which bimaculatus is established as a cichlid and mixtus becomes the type species of the labrid genus Labrus. Neotype designated by Kullander 1997:113 [ref. 24551]. On the Official List of Specific Names in Zoology. •Synonym of Labrus bimaculatus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Bauchot & Quignard 1973:426 [ref. 7204], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:927 [ref. 13676], Gomon & Forsyth 1990:875 [ref. 19219]). •Valid for a labrid species -- (Parenti & Randall 2000:28 [ref. 24943]). •Valid as Labrus mixtus Linnaeus 1758 -- (Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:111 [ref. 26753], Fricke 2007:26 [ref. 30577], Fricke et al. 2007:93 [ref. 29533], Kuiter 2010:82 [ref. 35285], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:53 [ref. 36649], Westneat in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2751 [ref. 34618], Martins & Carneiro 2018:168 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:558 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:283 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:99 [ref. 36864], Kovačić et al. 2020:38 [ref. 37519], Bañón & Maño 2021:89 [ref. 38887], Kovačić et al. 2021:69 [ref. 39014]). Current status: Valid as Labrus mixtus Linnaeus 1758. Labridae. Distribution: Western Baltic Sea; North Sea; Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Norway south to Senegal, including Azores and Madeira. Habitat: marine.