evanidus, Pseudocheilinus Jordan [D. S.] & Evermann [B. W.] 1903:192 [Bulletin of the U. S. Fish Commission v. 22 (1902); ref. 2450] Henshaw's pool near Hilo, Hawaii Island, Hawaiian Islands. Holotype (unique): USNM 50678. •Valid as Pseudocheilinus evanidus Jordan & Evermann 1903 -- (Dor 1984:206 [ref. 29757], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:213 [ref. 6441], Randall 1986:700 [ref. 5706], Winterbottom et al. 1989:55 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:330 [ref. 15987], Goren & Dor 1994:55 [ref. 25356], Allen 1997:182 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:278 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:330 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:193 [ref. 23965], Randall 1999:13 [ref. 24041], Fricke 1999:427 [ref. 24106], Parenti & Randall 2000:35 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:629 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1006 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:366 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:114 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:269 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:39 [ref. 25847], Westneat 2001:3402 [ref. 26277], Nakabo 2002:1006 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:50 [ref. 26830], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S114 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:634 [ref. 27495] dated 1904, Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:155 [ref. 27510], Randall et al. 2004:22 [ref. 27624], Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:350 [ref. 28072], Randall 2005:430 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:444 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1406 [ref. 29095], Randall 2007:328 [ref. 30952], Satapoomin 2009:229 [ref. 30463], Motomura et al. 2010:170 [ref. 31256], Kuiter 2010:156 [ref. 35285], Allen & Erdmann 2012:711 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:137 [ref. 33932], Golani & Fricke 2018:128 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:237 [ref. 36673], Zajonz et al. 2019:88 [ref. 36871], Fujiwara et al. 2020:37 [ref. 38631], Randall & Victor 2022:238 [ref. 39916], Anto et al. 2024:5 [ref. 40874]). Current status: Valid as Pseudocheilinus evanidus Jordan & Evermann 1903. Labridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), East Africa, Socotra (Yemen), Seychelles, Aldabra (Seychelles), Comoros, Madagascar, ?Mascarenes, Lakshadweep (India), Maldives and Chagos Archipelago to Midway and Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.), Tuamotu Archipelago and Marquesas Islands (French Polynesia), north to Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Rowley Shoals (Western Australia), Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.