oxycephalus, Cossyphus Bleeker [P.] 1862:129 [7] [Verslagen en Mededeelingen der Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen. Afdeling Natuurkunde. v. 14; ref. 389] Nagasaki, Japan. Holotype (unique): RMNH D1248 (stuffed). On p. 7 of separate. •Synonym of Bodianus vulpinus (Richardson 1850) -- (Gomon & Randall 1978:40 [ref. 5481]). •Valid as Bodianus oxycephalus (Bleeker 1862) -- (Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:204 [ref. 6441], Lee & Kim 1996:35 [ref. 25726], Kuiter 1993:268 [ref. 23929], Chen et al. 1997:133 [ref. 26476], Parenti & Randall 2000:6 [ref. 24943], Nakabo 2000:975 [ref. 25182], Gomon 2001:407 [ref. 25905], Nakabo 2002:975 [ref. 26193], Choi et al. 2003:368, 635 [ref. 26218], Gomon 2006:45 [ref. 28730], Randall 2007:321 [ref. 30952], Motomura et al. 2010:161 [ref. 31256], Kuiter 2010:22 [ref. 35285], Motomura et al. 2015:26 [ref. 34709], Santini et al. 2016:3 [ref. 39174], Kim et al. 2020:149 [ref. 39118], Sonoyama et al. 2020:85 [ref. 37637], Mochizuki et al. 2022:23 [ref. 39612]). Current status: Valid as Bodianus oxycephalus (Bleeker 1862). Labridae. Distribution: Northwestern Pacific: northeastern Taiwan north to Korea and central Japan. Habitat: marine.