digramma, Labrus Lacepède [B. G. E.] 1801:448, 518, Pl. 1 (fig. 2) [Histoire naturelle des poissons (Lacepède) v. 3; ref. 2710] Mauritius, Mascarenes, southwestern Indian Ocean. Holotype (unique): MNHN B-2155. Type catalog: Bauchot 1963:82 [ref. 19171]. The name digramma is a noun in apposition, so correct is Oxycheilinus digramma. Kottelat (2013) lists an inland record from the Philippines. •Valid as Cheilinus diagrammus [sic] (Lacepède 1801) [digramma is correct as a noun] -- (Kyushin et al. 1977:300 [ref. 19756], Dor 1984:197 [ref. 29757], Yamakawa in Masuda et al. 1984:213 [ref. 6441], Goren & Dor 1994:53 [ref. 25356], Mohsin & Ambak 1996:476 [ref. 27969], Iwatsuki et al. 2000:103 [ref. 26368], Hutchins 2001:268 [ref. 25841], Kuiter 2010:180 [ref. 35285]). •Valid as Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacepède 1801) -- (Randall 1986:689 [ref. 5706], Winterbottom et al. 1989:52 [ref. 13251], Randall et al. 1990:302 [ref. 15987], Chen et al. 1997:137 [ref. 26476] dated 1802, Randall et al. 1997:302 [ref. 25919], Anderson et al. 1998:26 [ref. 23611], Allen 1997:180 [ref. 23977] as diagrammus, Myers 1999:192 [ref. 23965], Fricke 1999:427 [ref. 24106], Parenti & Randall 2000:32 [ref. 24943] as digramma, Westneat in Randall & Lim 2000:629 [ref. 25122], Nakabo 2000:1010 [ref. 25182] as diagrammus, Laboute & Grandperrin 2000:365 [ref. 25191], Allen 2000:114 [ref. 25868], Hutchins 2001:39 [ref. 25847], Westneat 2001:3449 [ref. 26277], Nakabo 2002:1010 [ref. 26193] as diagrammus, Allen & Adrim 2003:50 [ref. 26830], Randall et al. 2003:361 [ref. 27177], Manilo & Bogorodsky 2003:S114 [ref. 27377], Myers & Donaldson 2003:634 [ref. 27495], Shibukawa et al. in Kimura & Matsuura 2003:155 [ref. 27510], Lobel & Lobel 2004:74 [ref. 27576], Randall et al. 2004:22 [ref. 27624], Adrim et al. 2004:124 [ref. 27715], Heemstra et al. 2004:3326 [ref. 27945] as digramma, Heemstra & Heemstra 2004:349 [ref. 28072] as diagramma, Randall 2005:427 [ref. 28239], Allen et al. 2006:1404 [ref. 29095] as diagrammus, Fricke et al. 2009:88 [ref. 30213], Satapoomin 2009:229 [ref. 30463], Motomura et al. 2010:170 [ref. 31256], Allen & Erdmann 2012:704 [ref. 31980], Fricke et al. 2013:267 [ref. 32706], Kottelat 2013:379 [ref. 32989], Fukui et al. 2016:[1] [ref. 35080], Fricke et al. 2018:289 [ref. 35805], Golani & Fricke 2018:128 [ref. 36273], Fricke et al. 2019:235 [ref. 36673], Koeda in Koeda & Ho 2019:1036 [ref. 42393], Zajonz et al. 2019:88 [ref. 36871], Hata in Motomura et al. 2021:57 [ref. 38121], Allen & Erdmann 2024:771 [ref. 40796], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacepède 1801). Labridae: Cheilininae. Distribution: Red Sea; Indo-West Pacific: East Africa, KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa), Socotra, Seychelles, Madagascar and Mascarenes east to Wake Atoll and Gambier Islands, north to Taiwan and Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to northern Western Australia, Queensland (Australia), New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.