unimaculatus, Cossyphus Günther [A.] 1862:109, 506 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 4; ref. 1969] Australia. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1860.5.25.4 (stuffed). •Synonym of Bodianus vulpinus (Richardson 1850) -- (Gomon & Randall 1978:40 [ref. 5481]). •Valid as Bodianus unimaculatus (Günther 1862) -- (Kuiter 1993:268 [ref. 23929], Francis 1993:164 [ref. 25479], Gomon et al. 1994:681 [ref. 22532], Kuiter 1997:268 [ref. 25488], Johnson 1999:743 [ref. 25471], Parenti & Randall 2000:7 [ref. 24943], Gomon 2001:407 [ref. 25905], Gomon 2006:46 [ref. 28730], Fricke & Kulbicki 2006:313 [ref. 28867], Allen et al. 2006:1375 [ref. 29095], Randall 2007:321 [ref. 30952], Russell & Gomon 2008:644 [ref. 30655], Kuiter 2010:22 [ref. 35285], Duffy & Ahyong 2015:116 [ref. 36167], Gomon et al. 2015:1371 [ref. 34207], Santini et al. 2016:3 [ref. 39174]). Current status: Valid as Bodianus unimaculatus (Günther 1862). Labridae. Distribution: Southeastern Indian Ocean, southwestern and South Pacific: southern Queensland to Victoria (Australia), Lord Howe Island, New Zealand and Kermadec Islands east to Easter Island. Habitat: marine.