pavo, Labrus Linnaeus [C.] 1758:283 [Systema Naturae, Ed. X v. 1; ref. 2787] Mediterranean Sea at Syria. No types known. •Valid as Crenilabrus pavo (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Herrera 1896:58 [ref. 39336]). •Valid as Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus 1758) -- (Bauchot & Quignard 1973:442 [ref. 7204], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:941 [ref. 13676], Gomon & Forsyth 1990:879 [ref. 19219], Allen 1995:76 [ref. 21960], Porteiro et al. 1996:33 [ref. 23330], Santos et al. 1997:97 [ref. 23531], De La Cruz Agüero et al. 1997:201 [ref. 24545], Grove & Lavenberg 1997:498 [ref. 24023], Arruda 1997:96 [ref. 24952], Anderson et al. 1998:26 [ref. 23611], Afonso et al. 1999:77 [ref. 25466], Parenti & Randall 2000:46 [ref. 24943], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:371 [ref. 25191], Rocha et al. 2001:105 [ref. 25301], Bilecenoğlu et al. 2002:116 [ref. 26753], Bernardi et al. 2004:372 [ref. 27454], Costagliola et al. 2003:379 [ref. 27455], Dulĉić 2004:75 [ref. 27743], Randall & Bartsch 2004:125 [ref. 28671], Golani 2005:51 [ref. 37112], Fricke et al. 2007:95 [ref. 29533], Fricke 2008:49 [ref. 30182], Kuiter 2010:202 [ref. 35285], Lipej & Dulčić 2010:55 [ref. 36649], Wirtz et al. 2013:130 [ref. 32972], Westneat in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2757 [ref. 34618], Martins & Carneiro 2018:172 [ref. 36550], Artüz & Fricke 2019:558 [ref. 36612], Carneiro et al. 2019:286 [ref. 37250], Elbaraasi et al. 2019:99 [ref. 36864], Encarnação et al. 2019:3 [ref. 37002], Bariche & Fricke 2020:76 [ref. 37515], Kovačić et al. 2020:39 [ref. 37519], Golani 2021:67 [ref. 38303], Kovačić et al. 2021:71 [ref. 39014], Fermon et al. 2022:290 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Thalassoma pavo (Linnaeus 1758). Labridae. Distribution: Mediterranean Sea; Sea of Marmara; eastern Atlantic: Portugal south to Gabon, including Azores, Madeira and Canary Islands. Habitat: marine.