aneitensis, Novacula Günther [A.] 1862:176 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 4; ref. 1969] Aneiteum Island, Vanuatu, southwestern Pacific. Syntypes: BMNH 1860.7.18.18 (1), 1861.5.31.62 (1). •Valid as Xyrichtys aneitensis (Günther 1862) -- (Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:211 [ref. 6441], Shen & Yeh 1987:64 [ref. 6419], Randall et al. 1990:340 [ref. 15987], Francis & Randall 1993:122 [ref. 20996], Francis 1993:165 [ref. 25479], Allen 1997:196 [ref. 23977], Kuiter 1997:310 [ref. 25488], Randall et al. 1997:340 [ref. 25919], Myers 1999:195 [ref. 23965], Allen 2000:91 [ref. 37268] as Xyrichthys a., Randall & Cornish 2000:21 [ref. 24435], Parenti & Randall 2000:48 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:630 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1011 [ref. 25182], Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:371 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:114 [ref. 25868], Westneat 2001:3403 [ref. 26277], Nakabo 2002:1011 [ref. 26193], Kuiter 2010:379 [ref. 35285]). •Valid as Iniistius aneitensis (Günther 1862) -- (Randall & Earle 2002:391, 392 [ref. 26445] misspelled anietensis on p. 391, Randall et al. 2002:93 [ref. 26622], Allen & Adrim 2003:49 [ref. 26830], Myers & Donaldson 2003:635 [ref. 27495], Randall 2005:418 [ref. 28239], Mundy 2005:439 [ref. 28379], Allen et al. 2006:1396 [ref. 29095], Randall 2007:12 [ref. 29193], Randall 2007:349 [ref. 30952], Motomura et al. 2010:168 [ref. 31256], Parenti & Randall 2011:35 [ref. 31299], Allen & Erdmann 2012:689 [ref. 31980], Randall & Victor 2022:217 [ref. 39916]). Current status: Valid as Iniistius aneitensis (Günther 1862). Labridae. Distribution: Indo-West Pacific: East Africa (Tanzania), Maldives and Chagos Archipelago east to Hawaiian Islands (U.S.A.) and Samoa, north to Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Queensland (Australia), Lord Howe Island (Australia) and New Caledonia. Habitat: marine.