speciosus, Diastodon Bowdich [S. L.] 1825:238, Fig. 41 [Fishes of Madeira; ref. 590] Santiago, Cape Verde Islands. No types known. •Valid as Bodianus speciosus (Bowdich 1825) -- (Bauchot & Quignard 1973:433 [ref. 7204], Quignard & Pras in Whitehead et al. 1986:921 [ref. 13676], Gomon & Forsyth 1990:870 [ref. 19219], Arruda 1997:93 [ref. 24952], Afonso et al. 1999:77 [ref. 25466], Parenti & Randall 2000:7 [ref. 24943], Gomon 2006:92 [ref. 28730], Wirtz et al. 2007:37 [ref. 30263], Kuiter 2010:29 [ref. 35285], Wirtz et al. 2013:130 [ref. 32972], Santini et al. 2016:3 [ref. 39174], Westneat in Carpenter & De Angelis 2016:2747 [ref. 34618], Carneiro et al. 2019:281 [ref. 37250], Filiz et al. 2019:400 [ref. 37180], Parenti 2019:7 [ref. 36934], Reiner 2019:242 [ref. 38139], Fermon et al. 2022:289 [ref. 39448]). Current status: Valid as Bodianus speciosus (Bowdich 1825). Labridae. Distribution: Eastern Atlantic: Mauritania south to Angola, including Cape Verde Islands, and São Tomé and Principe; introduced in eastern Mediterranean. Madeira record is erroneous. Habitat: marine.