yamashiroi, Julis Schmidt [P. Yu.] 1931:85, Fig. 5 [Transactions of the Pacific Committee of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. v. 1; ref. 3937] Itoman, Okinawa Island, Ryukyu Islands, Japan. Syntypes: ZIN 23318 (4). Appeared as name only in Schmidt 1930:515 [ref. 18734]. •Valid as Pseudocoris yamashiroi (Schmidt 1931) -- (Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:210 [ref. 6441], Paulin et al. 1989:207 [ref. 24556], Winterbottom et al. 1989:56 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:331 [ref. 15987], Kuiter 1993:301 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:165 [ref. 25479], Allen 1997:196 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:296 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:331 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:200 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:428 [ref. 24106], Allen 2000:91 [ref. 37268], Parenti & Randall 2000:36 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:629 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:999 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:114 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:269 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:39 [ref. 25847], Westneat 2001:3455 [ref. 26277] dated 1930, Nakabo 2002:999 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:50 [ref. 26830] dated 1930, Myers & Donaldson 2003:636 [ref. 27495] dated 1930, Randall et al. 2004:22 [ref. 27624], Randall 2005:432 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1407 [ref. 29095], Randall & Walsh 2008:49 [ref. 29659], Fricke et al. 2009:88 [ref. 30213], Motomura et al. 2010:171 [ref. 31256], Kuiter 2010:326 [ref. 35285], Allen & Erdmann 2012:714 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2014:137 [ref. 33932], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:116 [ref. 36167], Randall et al. 2015:6, 21 [ref. 33896], Fricke et al. 2018:290 [ref. 35805], Fricke et al. 2019:237 [ref. 36673]). Current status: Valid as Pseudocoris yamashiroi (Schmidt 1931). Labridae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, Madagascar, western Mascarenes, Maldives and Chagos Archipelago east to Marshall Islands and Samoa, north to southern Japan, south to Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia and Kermadec Islands. Habitat: marine.