manabei, Labropsis Schmidt [P. Yu.] 1931:76, Figs. 3-4 [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 23302 (2). Appeared as name only in Schmidt 1930:515 [ref. 18734]. •Valid as Labropsis manabei Schmidt 1931 -- (Araga in Masuda et al. 1984:206 [ref. 6441], Allen 1997:184 [ref. 23977], Myers 1999:204 [ref. 23965], Parenti & Randall 2000:27 [ref. 24943], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:629 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:980 [ref. 25182], Allen 2000:113 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:269 [ref. 25841], Hutchins 2001:39 [ref. 25847], Westneat 2001:3402 [ref. 26277] dated 1930, Nakabo 2002:980 [ref. 26193], Allen & Adrim 2003:50 [ref. 26830] dated 1930, Adrim et al. 2004:124 [ref. 27715], Allen et al. 2006:1398 [ref. 29095], Motomura et al. 2010:169 [ref. 31256], Kuiter 2010:361 [ref. 35285], Allen & Erdmann 2012:697 [ref. 31980]). Current status: Valid as Labropsis manabei Schmidt 1931. Labridae. Distribution: Western Pacific and southeastern Indian Ocean: Western Australia, Indonesia to Philippines, Ryukyu Islands and Ogasawara Islands. Habitat: marine.