robustus, Xiphochilus Günther [A.] 1862:98 [Catalogue of the fishes in the British Museum v. 4; ref. 1969] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): BMNH 1840.12.12.10 (dry). •Valid as Choerodon robustus (Günther 1862) -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:296 [ref. 19756], Kyushin et al. 1982:236 [ref. 19754], Dor 1984:199 [ref. 29757], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:202 [ref. 6441], Baranes & Golani 1993:311 [ref. 22372], Goren & Dor 1994:53 [ref. 25356], Randall 1995:273 [ref. 22896], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:479 [ref. 27969], Carpenter et al. 1997:198 [ref. 23922], Khan 1998:230 [ref. 24980], Fricke 1999:405 [ref. 24106], Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:628 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:971 [ref. 25182], Nakabo 2002:971 [ref. 26193], Mabuchi et al. 2002:388 [ref. 26800], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S114 [ref. 27377], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:147 [ref. 27510], Fricke et al. 2009:84 [ref. 30213], Kuiter 2010:54 [ref. 35285], Ho & Shao 2011:49 [ref. 31432], Allen & Erdmann 2012:647 [ref. 31980], Gomon 2017:9, 49 [ref. 35547], Fricke et al. 2018:280 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:123 [ref. 36273], Eagderi et al. 2019:72 [ref. 37020], Habib & Islam 2020:Supplementary table p. 19 [ref. 38321], Psomadakis et al. 2020:524 [ref. 37272], Randall & Victor 2022:187 [ref. 39916]). Current status: Valid as Choerodon robustus (Günther 1862). Labridae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: South Africa, East Africa, Persian Gulf, Seychelles, Madagascar and western Mascarenes (La Réunion, Mauritius, Rodrigues); Myanmar; Indonesia; Taiwan to southern Japan. IUCN (2010): Least concern. Habitat: marine.