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], Abe et al. 2024:9 [ref. 41435]). 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 Kagoshima Prefecture (southern Japan), south to Lord Howe Island, New Caledonia and Kermadec Islands. Habitat: marine.