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], Zajonz et al. 2019:88 [ref. 36871], Hata in Motomura et al. 2021:57 [ref. 38121], Noushad K. et al. 2024:45 [ref. 40947]). Current status: Valid as Oxycheilinus digramma (Lacepède 1801). Labridae. 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 Ryukyu Islands (Japan), south to Australia, New Caledonia and Tonga. Habitat: marine.